L'infernale Quinlan

Titolo originale: Touch of Evil
Regia: Orson Welles |
Anno: 1958
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Crime Thriller
Tag: hotel | gangster | brothel | border | investigation | honeymoon | usa–mexico border | car bomb | film noir | black and white |
Cast: Charlton Heston | Janet Leigh | Orson Welles | Joseph Calleia | Akim Tamiroff | Joanna Moore | Ray Collins | Dennis Weaver | Valentin de Vargas | Mort Mills | Victor Millan | Lalo Rios | Michael Sargent | Phil Harvey | Joi Lansing | Harry Shannon | Marlene Dietrich | Joseph Cotten | Zsa Zsa Gabor | Joe Basulto | Yolanda Bojorquez | Domenick Delgarde | Jennie Dias | John Dierkes | Eleanor Dorado | Eva Gabor | Jeffrey Green | Billy House | Mercedes McCambridge | Arlene McQuade | Ken Miller | Ralph Moratz | Ramón Rodríguez | Gus Schilling | William Tannen | Wayne Taylor | Rusty Wescoatt | Dan White | Keenan Wynn |

Mike Vargas, ispettore della polizia messicana e sua moglie Susan, devono interrompere il loro viaggio di nozze per venire a capo dell'uccisione del ricco proprietario Linnekar, avvenuta al confine tra gli Stati Uniti e il Messico. Vargas partecipa alle indagini affiancando l'ispettore americano Quinlan. Nel frattempo Susan viene circuita da un tipo losco, che, ricattando la donna, mira a liberare suo fratello arrestato dall'ispettore messicano.

Errori

Quinlan says early in the movie that strangling is the best way to kill someone because "you don't l [...] D
When Pete Menzies beckons Hank Quinlan to come out of Tanya's place, Quinlan's tie is outside of his [...] D
As the night-man leads Vargas to cabin seven, Vargas jumps from his right side to his left at a cut. D
The explosion at the beginning shows the car squashing down on all four wheels; following scenes sho [...] D
Crew and equipment reflected in the side of Vargas's car as he prepares to take his wife to the Amer [...] D
During the struggle between Quinlan and Grandi, Grandi reaches for a revolver under the bed. The gun [...] D
Whenever the player piano is operating, the action of piano keys does not match the music that is he [...] D
At the end of the opening tracking shot, the sky beginning to change to daylight, but the rest of th [...] D
The car blown up in the opening scene has a completely different radiator grille and front bumper pr [...] D
When Susan Vargas (Janet Leigh) enters her Mirador Motel room for the first time, the shadow of a bo [...] D
When Vargas follows Menzies and Quinlan, he steps into water and his pants are visibly wet. Yet afte [...] D
At about the 50-minute mark, Vargas tells Quinlan that he knows the shoebox did not contain dynamite [...] D
Right before the end of the movie, Tanya refers to Pete as "the one who killed him (Hank)" however, [...] D
Various scenes depict car tires squealing on dirt roads or parking lots. D
At the beginning of the opening long shot, when the bomb is planted in the trunk of the car, the ref [...] D
The degree of beard stubble on Quinlan's face changes from sequence to sequence within the same nigh [...] D
As the couple is getting into the car at the beginning of the movie, there is exhaust coming from th [...] D
The car that blows up four minutes into the film has the Texas plate AG 3724; 32 minutes into the fi [...] D
When Menzies tells Vargas that his wife is charged with murder, Vargas says, "Murder?" His lips don' [...] D
When Vargas (Charlton Heston) arrives late at night at the motel, he asks the night man (Dennis Weav [...] D