On honeymoon with his new bride, a Mexican-born policeman agrees to investigate a bomb explosion. In doing so, he incurs the wrath of local police chief, a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record.

Movie lore tells us that Touch of Evil was taken away from its director Orson Welles and was butchered by parent studio Universal. The Genius versus the genius of the system.

In 1998, the film was restored by producers Albert Zugsmith and Rick Schmidlin and editor Walter Murch using the detailed 58-page memo Welles wrote upon seeing the studio cut.

This is the version we are so excited to bring to you on our screens