Touch of Evil (1958)
The genre's late masterpiece. Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's 1958 American film noir adapting Whit Masterson's 1956 novel Badge of Evil.
Joseph Calleia appeared in Touch of Evil as Menzies, whose loyalty to a corrupt friend is the film’s most affecting thread, and in Gilda and The Glass Key. He was Maltese and had been an opera singer before acting.
Charlton HestonThe genre's late masterpiece. Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's 1958 American film noir adapting Whit Masterson's 1956 novel Badge of Evil.
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