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Touch of Evil Quotes

Touch of Evil is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Touch of Evil ended its run in 1970.

It features Albert Zugsmith as producer, Henry Mancini in charge of musical score, and Russell Metty as head of cinematography.

Touch of Evil is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Touch of Evil is 111 minutes (1998 version) long. Touch of Evil is distributed by Universal-International.

The cast includes: Orson Welles as Quinlan, Marlene Dietrich as Tanya, Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas, Mort Mills as Schwartz, Joseph Calleia as Pete Menzies, Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan, Charlton Heston as Vargas, Victor Millan as Sanchez, Janet Leigh as Susan, and Akim Tamiroff as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi.

Touch of Evil Quotes

Charlton Heston as Vargas

  • (Charlton Heston) "Listen, I'm no cop now. I'm a husband. What did you do with her? Where's my wife? My wife."
  • (Charlton Heston) "This could be very bad for us."
  • (Janet Leigh) "For us?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "For Mexico, I mean."
  • (Charlton Heston) "What make you so very sure it was dynamite?"
  • (Orson Welles) "My leg."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Your what?"
  • (Joseph Calleia) "His game leg. Sometimes he gets a kind of twinge, like folks do for a change of weather. "Intuition," he calls it."
  • (Charlton Heston) "How could you arrest me here? This is my country."
  • (Orson Welles) "This is where you're gonna die."
  • (Charlton Heston) "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."
  • (Charlton Heston) "This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Susie, one of the longest borders on earth is right here between your country and mine. An open border. Fourteen hundred miles without a single machine gun in place. Yeah, I suppose that all sounds very corny to you."
  • (Janet Leigh) "I could love being corny, if my husband would only cooperate."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Captain, you won't have any trouble with me."
  • (Orson Welles) "You bet your sweet life I won't."

Janet Leigh as Susan

  • (Janet Leigh) "You know what's wrong with you, Mr Grandi? You've being seeing too many gangster movies. Mike may be spoiling some of your fun."
  • (Akim Tamiroff) "Mike?"
  • (Janet Leigh) "My husband, yeah. And if you're trying to scare me into calling him off, let me tell you something Mr. Grandi. I may be scared, but he wont be."

Marlene Dietrich as Tanya

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Orson Welles as Quinlan

  • (Orson Welles) "I don't speak Mexican. Let's keep it in English, Vargas."
  • (Charlton Heston) "That's all right with me. I'm sure he's just as unpleasant in any language."
  • (Victor Millan) "Unpleasant? Strange. I've been told I have a very winning personality. The very best shoe clerk the store ever had."
  • (Orson Welles) "My game leg is startin' to talk to me."
  • (Orson Welles) "That wasn't no miss, Vargas. That was just to turn you 'round, so I don't have to shoot you in the back. Unless you'd rather run for it."
  • (Orson Welles) "Come on, read my future for me."
  • (Marlene Dietrich) "You haven't got any."
  • (Orson Welles) "Hmm? What do you mean?"
  • (Marlene Dietrich) "Your future's all used up."

Victor Millan as Sanchez

  • (Victor Millan) "What are you trying to do?"
  • (Orson Welles) "We're trying to strap you to the electric chair, boy."

Mort Mills as Schwartz

  • (Mort Mills) "So it turns out Quinlan was right after all."
  • (Mort Mills) "Intuition?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "Why not? Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches."

Joseph Calleia as Pete Menzies

  • (Joseph Calleia) "You're a killer."
  • (Orson Welles) "Partly. I'm a cop."
  • (Joseph Calleia) "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled."
  • (Orson Welles) "I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?"
  • (Joseph Calleia) "You didn't have to make it dirty."
  • (Orson Welles) "I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?"
  • (Joseph Calleia) "Sure, sure, sure."
  • (Orson Welles) "Well? All those convictions."

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