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| ACTORS: | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1958 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Atmospheric, B&W, Bleak, Crime, Crime Gone Awry, Crime Thriller, Disturbing, Drama, Drug Content, English, Expressionism, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Fighting the System, Film Noir, High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance, High Production Values |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D20470D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 025192047022 |
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Customer Reviews of Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
Touch of Evil The director's original version is restored for this DVD, to powerful effect. Welles creates a desolate night-time world in the dirty town of Los Robles, a forgotten speck on the map where everyone seems to carry a nasty secret. Lurid, almost surreal atmosphere is complemented by uniformly first-rate performances, with Heston and Leigh never better, Welles himself a bloated symbol of moral decay, and Akim Tamiroff memorably slimy as a local crime boss. Don't miss Marlene Dietrich playing a gypsy- as you might guess, she gets the final word. A cult movie with a capital "C".
Orson Wells
well worth seeing. A Wells classic, that just has not aged
Touch of a master.
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
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>The American Experience documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane concludes with the observation that after the scandal that erupted over Kane, Orson Welles "never worked on another major Hollywood production." Which is pretty amazing, when you consider how many of Welles' post-Kane movies are acknowledged as classics nowadays. After Kane, Welles plunged himself deep into the world of noir (one wonders what Jung would have to say about that) and continued cranking out fantastic movies. Seventeen years later, Welles made his second-best movie-- Touch of Evil, the very epitome of the things that make noir great.
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>Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is a Mexican (yeah, yeah, but suspend your disbelief) narcotics officer who's just gotten married to Susan (Janet Leigh), a Philadelphia socialite. On the eve of their honeymoon, someone plants a bomb in the car of a rich American on the Mexican side of the border, and the bomb explodes on the American side. This brings Vargas into contact with Hank Quinlan (Welles), a corrupt, racist American detective who tries to railroad Manelo Sanchez (Victor Millan, last seen in Scarface), the victim's daughter's boyfriend, by planting evidence at the crime scene. Vargas, meanwhile, is also being pursued by Joe Grandi (Justine's Akim Tamiroff), a crime boss whose brother Vargas arrested. All the threads eventually come together in the most entertaining of ways; the movie's climactic scene has been copied (and parodied) so many times that by now it's a cliché. But remember that it wasn't in 1958; this is as good as it gets.
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>Orson Welles' directorial prowess was as legendary as his excesses. Rent a Welles movie at random, and you're pretty much guaranteed a good time. Some of his movies, though, deliver more universally than others; Citizen Kane seems to be the favorite of most folks. Mine has always been The Stranger. But Touch of Evil stands with both. This is great stuff, an absolute must for film fans. **** ½