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Charlton Heston portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy American businessman on the US side of the border. As Vargas investigates, his newly-wed wife Susie (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock’s Psycho) is kidnapped by a gang out to exact vengeance for the prosecution of the brother of their leader (Akim Tamiroff). Meanwhile, Vargas’ enquiries become progressively more obfuscated by the American cop Hank Quinlan (played by Welles himself, in one of the most imposing and unforgettable screen performances of his career), a besotted incarnation of corruption who alternately conspires with Susie’s captors and seeks solace in the brothel of the Gypsy madame (Marlene Dietrich) who comforted him in bygone times. (Eureka Entertainment)

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Cinematheque

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Theraphosa Other
22/07/2006
PAGE DVD
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10/07/2006
INSEX DVD
02/07/2006
Macbeth Other
10/06/2006
betelgeuse DVD
10/05/2006
medulla Other
23/04/2006
medulla DVD
06/04/2006
Misha Other
19/03/2006
Silas Other
12/02/2006
loydd Other
08/01/2006
backslash Other
08/01/2006
Dale Other
08/01/2006
vincent Other
08/01/2006
Pštros Other
08/01/2006
addams Other
08/01/2006
Skart Other
08/01/2006
Stooovie Other
08/01/2006