Touch of Evil (Blu-ray) PG-13
The strangest vengeance ever planned!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 26, 2015
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh & Orson Welles | |
Performer: | Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor & Ray Collins | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Virgil W. Vogel & Aaron Stell | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles | |
Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
Produced by | Albert Zugsmith | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Discover what the hullabaloo was about....Great Welles and a surprisingly good Heston... -- 5 out of 5 stars - One for the Library
Premiere
Welles shoots and -- to the extent that he controlled post-production -- edits the film in a fragmented manner which suggest that the line between good cop Vargas and bad cop Quinlan is particularly thin...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Like the bomb that's lobbed in the boot of the soft-top car in its opening scene, Touch Of Evil is a film where we can hear the faint sound of ticking in our heads, but don't realise what the problem is before it's far too late.
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Little White Lies
Touch of Evil deserves to be watched multiple times, not for the story, but to absorb its brilliance and audacity.
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Electric Sheep
[A] masterful wallow in noir....[Welles] inhabits another outsize monster who somehow evokes the viewer's sympathy.
Premiere
Made in 1958, it was Orson Welles's last Hollywood film, and in it he makes transcendent use of the American technology his genius throve on; never again would his resources be so rich or his imagination so fiendishly baroque.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
Citizen Kane may be the more weighty, rounded work, but Touch of Evil is a heap more fun.
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Independent (UK)
Product Description:
Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL is nothing short of a masterpiece. Beginning with a three-minute-plus tracking crane shot, the film explodes onto the screen, literally--the marvelously expressive opening shot ends with a car blowing up, and that detonation sets into motion a classic noir tale of betrayal and murder. In a complex exploration of character and morality, Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan, a grotesque, troubled, and powerful figure who runs his small U.S. border town according to his own version of the law. Quinlan's brutishness and vulgarity contrast starkly with the idealism and playboy good looks of Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas, a Mexican detective trying to put away the leader of a dangerous family of drug dealers--the Grandis. In the U.S. with his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), Vargas becomes consumed with exposing Quinlan and his highly questionable methods--too busy to see that his own beautiful blonde bride is in serious danger from both Quinlan and the Grandis.
In 1998, Welles's film was restored closer to its creator's original vision, and it is a joy to behold. Every shot is impeccably crafted, every word of dialogue concise and pointed. The camerawork (by Russell Metty and John Russell) is stunning, particularly in the opening scene and the long single take in which Vargas believes he has caught Quinlan planting evidence. The supporting cast, led by Marlene Dietrich, Dennis Weaver, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia, gives exhilarating performances. TOUCH OF EVIL, Welles's last studio film, is a near-perfect examination of the dark underbelly of society and the tragic downfall of a once proud man.
In 1998, Welles's film was restored closer to its creator's original vision, and it is a joy to behold. Every shot is impeccably crafted, every word of dialogue concise and pointed. The camerawork (by Russell Metty and John Russell) is stunning, particularly in the opening scene and the long single take in which Vargas believes he has caught Quinlan planting evidence. The supporting cast, led by Marlene Dietrich, Dennis Weaver, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia, gives exhilarating performances. TOUCH OF EVIL, Welles's last studio film, is a near-perfect examination of the dark underbelly of society and the tragic downfall of a once proud man.
Keywords:
Mystery
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Cops
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Framed
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema