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...border. Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between good and evil. Billed as "The strangest vengeance ever planned!" Touch of Evil also provides some fairly strange casting (yes, even beyond the choice of Heston as Mexican). Among the cameos dotting the border landscape are Marlene Dietrich as a gypsy, Zsa Zsa Gabor as a madam...
...Congregational minister from the outback hamlet of Bordertown, Hawke is a Rhodes scholar who, while at Oxford, set a world beer-drinking record (according to the 1957 Guinness Book of Records, he downed 2½ pints in twelve seconds). Hawke spent twelve years as the A.C.T.U.'s brilliant, abrasive chief lawyer. When he succeeded to the union's leadership last year, he be gan tackling everyone and everything. He described the national steel monopoly, Broken Hill Proprietary, as rapacious. He called Cabinet Member Billy Snedden, who is considered McMahon's heir apparent, "an intellectual cripple." He blasted...
...Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury, Dr. Socrates, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Good Earth. Pasteur won him the Academy prize and furnished a precedent for Zola. Muni now gets about $100,000 a picture...
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