Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
Touch of Evil
Scored from 303 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
When a car bomb kills a businessman just after crossing from Mexico into a U.S. border town, Mexican narcotics official Miguel Vargas postpones his honeymoon to investigate alongside corpulent American police captain Hank Quinlan. As Vargas uncovers Quinlan's history of planting evidence, the corrupt cop retaliates by targeting Vargas's new American wife, drawing them all into a web of vice and revenge.
Touch of Evil (1958) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and film-noir genres.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,610 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 303 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 311 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus.
Is Touch of Evil (1958) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1950s · 561 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 303
Cohort: Films · 1950s
