Critic Reviews
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David Edelstein, Slate
I first saw it when I was 14 and thought it was one of the worst pictures ever -- garish, oppressive, and appallingly overacted. Grown up, I'd go with those same adjectives, except now I think it's one of the best.
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Howard Thompson, New York Times
Where Mr. Welles soundly succeeds is in generating enough sinister electricity for three such yarns and in generally staging it like a wild, murky nightmare.
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Todd McCarthy, Variety
Touch of Evil smacks of brilliance but ultimately flounders in it.
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Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
Touch of Evil (1958) is back in yet another incarnation -- proving that Welles' directorial touch was so sure that there was no way anyone could bollix his work.
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Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic
It's a flurry of pressure-cooker baroque, an extreme example of the exhibitionistic hijinks in which Welles could sometimes indulge, apparently intensified here because he wasn't doing what he really wanted to be doing.
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Cast
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Charlton Hestonas Ramon Miguel Vargas -
Janet Leighas Susan Vargas -
Orson Wellesas Hank Quinlan
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Joseph Calleiaas Pete Menzies -
Akim Tamiroffas Uncle Joe Grandi -
Joanna Cook Mooreas Marcia Linnekar
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