Touch of Evil (1958)






A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.


Books on Touch of Evil

Terry Comito (editor)
Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, Director
New Brunswick and London, 1998

Books with substantial mentioning of Touch of Evil

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Robert Garis
The Films of Orson Welles
Cambridge, 2004

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Jonathan Munby
Public Enemies, Public Heroes, Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Chicago and London, 1999

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Jeff Rovin
The Films of Charlton Heston
Secaucus, N.J., 1977

Homer Dickens
The Films of Marlene Dietrich
New York, 1968

Books with an entry on Touch of Evil

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on Touch of Evil

Peter Wollen, Foreign Relations: Welles and Touch of Evil, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 10 (October), 1996 pp. 20-23

Anatomy Of A Scene: Touch Of Evil, in: Empire, nr. 270 (December), 2011 pp. 158-159

Reviews

Owen Williams, Touch of Evil, in: Empire, nr. 270 (December), 2011 pp. 158 (DVD review)