![]() ![]() ![]() Innocent people may have been imprisoned or executed. He has not only broken the law, but if his instincts are wrong, he is guilty of evil himself. ![]() Hank has violated the most basic principle of justice: innocent until proven guilty. When his instincts tell him that a suspect has committed a crime, he plants evidence in order to secure a conviction. Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), the police captain, wants to punish criminals who are guilty of evil. A central theme in the film is the progressive nature of evil: The more a person does what is evil, the less guilt they will feel, and after rationalizing their actions, they may commit even greater acts of evil. If an act of evil is intentionally causing harm to an innocent person, then numerous characters in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958) are either guilty of evil or a victim of it. ![]()
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