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Title
Touch of evil
Type
Moving Image
Monograph
Subject
Police corruption--Mexican-American Border Region--Drama (LCSH)
Betrayal--Drama (LCSH)
Bombing investigation--Mexican-American Border Region--Drama (LCSH)
Murder--Investigation--Mexican-American Border Region--Drama (LCSH)
Drug enforcement agents--Drama (LCSH)
Drug enforcement agents' spouses--Drama (LCSH)
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: FGB 1860-1870 (viewing print) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
LCC: FGC 2938-2943 (viewing print, copy 2) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Moving Image Technique(s)
live action
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Note
award: This film was selected for the National Film Registry
Summary
"On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan, Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas agrees to investigate a bomb explosion. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinlan, a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record. Vargas suspects that Quinlan has planted evidence to win his past convictions, and he isn't about to let the suspect in the current case be railroaded. Quinlan, whose obsession with his own brand of justice is motivated by the long-ago murder of his wife, is equally determined to get Vargas out of his hair, and he makes a deal with local crime boss Uncle Joe Grandi to frame Susan on a drug rap"--Allmovie.com.
Capture
capture: Date: 1957-02-19/1957-04-02 Place: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Filmed from February 19, 1957 to April 2, 1957 in Los Angeles and Palmdale, California.
Duration
PT95M
Authorized Access Point
Touch of evil