Friday, July 29, 2016

Friday's Film Adaption: Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson


Summary:
Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most decorated and beloved cops look like they're not shooting straight? If they've planted evidence in this case, what else are they guilty of in the past?


Film
A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop.
Release Date: May 21, 1958
Release Time: 95 minutes(1958)
111 minutes(1998 Re-Release)

Cast:
Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas
Janet Leigh as Susan Vargas
Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan
Joseph Calleia as Pete Menzies
Akim Tamiroff as Uncle Joe Grandi
Joanna Cook Moore as Marcia Linnekar
Ray Collins as District Attorney Adair
Dennis Weaver as the Night Manager
Val de Vargas as Pancho
Mort Mills as Al Schwartz
Victor Millan as Manolo Sanchez
Lalo Rios as Risto
Phil Harvey as Blaine
Joi Lansing as Blonde
Harry Shannon as Police Chief Pete Gould
Rusty Wescoatt as Casey
Wayne Taylor as a gang member
Ken Miller as a gang member
Raymond Rodriguez as a gang member
Arlene McQuade as Ginnie
Dan White as the Border Guard
Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Strip-club owner
Marlene Dietrich as Tanya
Mercedes McCambridge as a hoodlum
William Tannen as Howard Frantz
Joseph Cotten as a Detective

Awards:
American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Thrills - #64



Author Bio:
Whit Masterson is a pen name of authors, Robert Allison “Bob” Wade (1920-present) and H. Bill Miller (1920-61). The two also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Wade Miller and Will Daemer. Wade is on the left in the picture and Miller on the right.


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