Posted on 04/07/2008 10:06:40 AM PDT by murdoog
“What does it matter what you say about people?” Marlene Dietrich asks at the end of that 1958 American masterpiece “Touch of Evil.” She’s talking about the dead cop Hank Quinlan, a mound of stilled flesh and lasting corruption given frightening life by the film’s director, Orson Welles. The man who brings him down is Vargas, the upright Dudley Do-Right Mexican detective with a paint-on tan. Lantern jaw set like a vise, this is of course Charlton Heston.
the strong square jaw....the high cheekbones...the hardy voice ......we will never see that again.....nowadays, our “heroes” in film are Tom Cruiselike....ugh!
IMHO “Touch of Evil” was one of the best of the “film noir” genre ever produced.
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