"[F]ilm noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tell the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot."--Container.

Based on the novel "Badge of evil" by Whit Masterson. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958. Includes 3 versions of the film: restored version, 1998 cut restored to Welles' vision based on a memo to the studio; theatrical version, original version seen by audiences in 1958; preview version, created prior to the theatrical version and incorporating some of Orson Welles' requests.

Disc 1. Restored version (1 hr., 51 min.) -- Special features: Choice of optional audio feature commentaries: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and restoration producer Rick Schmidlin [offered with SDH captions], or, Rick Schmidlin -- Featurettes: Bringing Evil to life (21 min.) -- Evil lost and found (17 min.) -- Original theatrical trailer ; Disc 2. Theatrical version (1 hr., 36 min.) -- Bonus feature: Optional audio feature commentary by writer/filmmaker F.X. Feeney -- Preview version (1 hr., 49 min.) -- Bonus feature: Optional audio feature commentary with Orson Welles historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore.