Our trip to The Picture House - 'A Touch of Evil'

Norwich Picture House - Monday 31st October

On Monday the 31st of October, our media class endeavoured on a trip to The Norwich Picture House to view a screening of Welles's classic - 'A Touch of Evil'. We went to view this classic hit thriller, to give us (as a class) an insight first hand into Orson Welles's work, and the way in which he conducts it. It was a helpful trip regarding creating our own productions, as it meant that we were given ideas on methods of filming and the way in which we should conduct our own screening techniques.

Summary of 'A Touch of Evil'

Mexican officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has an interrupted honeymoon when an American is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side.Vargas then delays his return to Mexico City where he has been working on a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie.