A few words to start.
Orson Welles.
Janet Leigh
and
Charlton Heston...In Brown Face...
Sadly the fact that they had Heston portray a Mexican distracted me from the film as a whole.
The Overall plot to the film is like a good cop / bad cop dealing with jurisdiction and moral issues and some minor racial tension along the Mex-American Border. Starting off with a wonderfully shot scene in which a Mexican bomb explodes a car on American soil.
Welles plays a corrupt dectective who always solves the case...yea, cause he planted the incriminating evidence! Heston plays a Mexican DEA type agent who is faced with the moral dillema to expose Welles hindering the investigation or let things unravel, either way he is putting his life at risk.
The moral to the story is that good overcomes evil and that we all have a bit of a darkside to us. An honest man can only be pushed so far without cracking. Whereas others can start out bad or worse use good resources for evil being completely corrupted by society.
Now I am a HUGE fan of all 3 stars in this film so that was the main attraction for me.
I feel I need to watch it again to give it a justified rating but in a first viewing
I give Touch Of Evil, 5 "Damned Dirty Apes" ... out of 10.
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