🎬 Touch of Evil (1958)

Charlton Heston was an American actor best known for epic Hollywood productions of the 1950s and 60s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben-Hur (1959). The Big Country (1958) is one of his westerns, co-starring Gregory Peck.

Janet Leigh was an American actress best known for playing Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), a role that earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She also appeared in Touch of Evil and The Manchurian Candidate, and is the mother of actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor, best known for Citizen Kane (1941), widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Touch of Evil (1958) is his noir thriller, in which he also stars as a corrupt police detective working the US-Mexico border.

Joseph Calleia was a Maltese actor known for playing villains and shady characters in Hollywood films of the 1930s-50s. In Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) he played Detective Menzies, one of his most memorable roles. He also appeared in films such as Algiers and Gilda.

Akim Tamiroff was a Russian-born Hollywood character actor who built a career playing vivid supporting roles from the 1930s onward, earning two Academy Award nominations. In Touch of Evil (1958) he appears alongside Orson Welles and Charlton Heston as the small-time gangster Joe Grandi.

Joanna Moore was an American actress who worked mainly in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s. She appeared in westerns and thrillers, with one of her most notable roles being Susan Vargas in Orson Welles's noir classic Touch of Evil (1958). She is also the mother of actress Tatum O'Neal.