After a car bombing near a border between Mexico and the United States, the Mexican police officer Vargas (Charlton Heston), who just married an American girl (Janet Leigh), and Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), take charge of an investigation in which its opposite methods of operation will eventually collide.
Superb film piece in which the genius of Welles, unleashes its impressive visual style to create one of his major works. Only a filmmaker of his unique talent in art could transform the modest novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson .
is a tangled and sordid history of corruption, crime and treason in the service the formal baroque admirable of the author.
Through an elaborate and expressionistic staging, the director leads us through a dark world of slums, cheap motels, alcohol and drugs, in which a naive idealism, will be confronted with the pettiness of others disenchanted, without hope you can find out which of the two sides is right.
Welles himself, which was false and stuffed nose to appear more weight, dramatically interprets the ambiguous Hank Quinlan: One of the most fascinating characters and bitter film U.S.; negligible in its forms, to some extent justified by a tragedy of the past, but deeply embedded in its bottom. In the titanic presence Wellesian, and quite the rest of the cast to maintain the rate, highlighting the likely composition of Heston as a Mexican citizen, and Janet Leigh as his suffering wife. Special mention must face magnetic Dietrich, which here runs a seedy local instruments from which the strains of an old pianola.
The film begins with the now famous sequence shot that, today, remains one of the most complex scenes in to development and implementation of film history. Not lag behind other times of the tape as the sequence level also is recorded in the apartment of the chief suspect, or the nightmarish and hallucinatory final stretch in which Welles experimented with image and sound.
Henry Mancini's music, combining rock and roll, jazz and Latin sounds, and chiaroscuro photography Russell Metty, help to round out this essential, and yet modern masterpiece.
Rating: masterpiece.
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