Touch of Evil

     

Touch of Evil1958

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 111 minutes

Considered by many to be the greatest B movie ever made, the original-release version of Orson Welles's film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil was, ironically, never intended as a B movie at all--it merely suffered that fate after it was taken away f… more »


Pete Menzies:
You're a killer.

Hank Quinlan:
Partly. I'm a cop.

Pete Menzies:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.

Hank Quinlan:
I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?

Pete Menzies:
You didn't have to make it dirty.

Hank Quinlan:
I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?

Pete Menzies:
Sure, sure, sure.

Hank Quinlan:
Well? All those convictions.

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