Universal Feature FilmsPROMOTION DEPARTMENT MeA TV • 445 PARK AVENUE/NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 (212) 759·7500

"TOUCH OF EVIL"

CAST AND CREDITS

95 mins 1958

Charlton HestonJanet LeighOrson WellesJoseph CalleiaAkim TamiroffMarlene DietrichZsa Zsa Gabor

Directed by Orson WellesScreenplay by Orson WellesBased on the Novel "Badge of Evil"

by Whit Ma stersonProduced by Albert Zugsmith

Ramon Miguel (Mike) Vargas •. Charlton HestonSusan Vargas Janet LeighHank Quinlan •.............. Orson WellesPete Menzies •........•.•... Joseph Calleia"Uncle Joe" Grandi .....•..•. Akim TamiroffMarcia Linnekar Joanna MooreAdair Ray CollinsThe Night Man Dennis WeaverPancho •.....•............. Valentin De

VargasSchwartz .•..•.............. Mort MillsManelo Sanchez Victor MillanRisto ....•................. Lalo RiosPretty Boy. Michael Sargent

THE STORY

The honeymoon of Susan and Mike Vargas (JANET LEIGH and CHARLTON HESTON)is interrupted by an automobile bombing on the U .S. side of Los Robles I a Mexicanborder town. Though Vargas is not a policeman I but a special investigator for theMexican government I he feels it is his duty to remain on the scene I since the carcame from Mexico. One victim is a little-known strip teaser I but her companion I

a man named Linnekar I virtually owned Los Robles. Vargas earns the displeasureof detective captain Hank Quinlan (ORSON WELLES) I a bully and bigot I but a heroamong American cops because he has never failed to get his man. Quinlan wants noMexican interference I but is forced I by orders from above I to cooperate with Vargas.

As her husband talks with Quinlan over the torn bodies in the street I Susan isaccosted by a stranger with a note which piques her curiosity. She follows the manto a cheap hotel where she meets "Uncle Joe" Grandi (AKIMTAMIROFF) I underworldleader who tries to impress Susan with the necessity of Vargas laying off Grandi Isbrother in a Mexico City narcotics rap. Susan foolishly goes to wait for Vargas ina lonely motel on a deserted old highway. Vargas discovers that Quinlan has plantedevidence I the dynamite used to blow up Linnekar's car I in the apartment of a youngMexican named Sanchez I recently married to Linnekar's spoiled daughter I Marcia

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(JOANNA MOORE). Vargas probes Quinlan's past to find that the police hero'sarrests were all based on phony evidence. He has often framed the criminal toinsure justice. Concerned that Vargas may expose him, Quinlan plans withGrandi to frame Susan.

Quinlan and Grandi have young hoodlums stage a "junk" party at Susan'smotel, after which Susan, drugged, is brought to Grandi's hotel and placed half .conscious, half dressed, in a room filled with evidence of narcotics. Then,undesirous of being in a blackmailer's clutches, Quinlan chokes Grandi to deathwith Susan's stocking, leaving the dead man in her room.

Vargas finds his wife in jail, arrested by the vice squad. Proving toQuinlan's sergeant, Pete Menzies (JOSEPH CALLEIA), that his boss is a criminal,Vargas enlists Menzies I aid to trick Quinlan into tape recording confessions witha microphone hidden in Menzies I clothes. They discover the detective drunk in ajoint run by Tanya (MARLENEDIETRICH). But clever Quinlan realizes wMt ishappening, he shoots Menzies and goes after Vargas. The dying Menzies shootsQuinlan before the captain can get Vargas.

With Quinlan, a great detective but a bad cop, dead, Vargas and Susan arefree to continue their honeymoon.

.--Universal Feature Rims

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