12/05/2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Film historian Robert Dance will introduce the second film in our film noir series, “Touch of Evil,” written and directed by Orson Welles, on Friday, December 5 at 7:00 p.m. Film noir is an American movie style from the 1940s and 1950s that features detective protagonists, sleazy surroundings, dim lighting, and a crime-centered narrative. The genre developed iconic cinematic motifs and tropes that inspire filmmakers today.
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies (Joseph Calleia), are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), in jeopardy.
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Norfolk Library
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