Im Zeichen des Bösen (1958)
26KIm Zeichen des Bösen: Directed by Orson Welles. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia. A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
“When anyone mentions this masterpiece they usually make some ignorant remark about Charlton Heston not being believable as a Mexican. Apparently such people think all Mexicans resemble the ones theyu0026#39;ve seen in the US who are mostly mestizo – 60% of Mexicans are Mestizo, 30% Indian and about 10% European. Well, Mexicou0026#39;s ruling class is predominantly of European ethnicity, and today many are educated in the US and so they speak fluent English with an American accent. Charlton Heston is playing a man who is a member of that elite and is thus believable in the role in terms of his physical appearance and possibly even his accent. The only problem came when his character had to speak Spanish! Now there he had a problem…”
