- Description
Police officer and drug specialist Vargas arrives in a small town near the Mexican-American border with his wife Susan, at the same time as Sheriff Hank Quinlan. The ground is literally burning beneath their feet. Members of the Grandiou mafia family attempt to skilfully drag Vargas' wife into a drug scandal that will threaten his career. At the same time, it is clear that the sheriff is a fraud who, in the past, as well as now, manipulates the cases he investigates to suit his own agenda... The film, based on the novel Touch of Evil by writer Whit Masterson, was directed by the famous and controversial filmmaker Orson Welles, who also played the role of the unscrupulous law enforcement officer Hank Quinlan. With his precise and distinctive approach, shocking from the very first minutes of the story, he strayed far from the original "standard crime story," imbuing his character with a distinctive cold face of amorality and tragedy, and as a director, he ranked among the classics of the "film noir" genre...