Touch of Evil - The Masters of Cinema Series|Orson Welles

Product Code: EKA70546

EAN: 5060000705461
Catalogue Code: EKA70546
Title: Touch of Evil - The Masters of Cinema Series
Principle Contributor: Orson Welles
Contributors: Orson Welles, Albert Zugsmith, Orson Welles, Henry Mancini, Russell Metty, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Dennis Weaver, Mercedes McCambridge, Lalo Rios, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Keenan Wynn, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Modern Classic
Produced by Label/Studio: Eureka, 1958
Published by: Eureka, 16 Sep 2024
Format: Blu-ray / 4K Ultra HD
Media: 2 disc(s)

Booklet|Bonus Footage|Commentary: Reconstructed version: Rick Schmidlin (restoration producer); Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh (actors); Theatrical version: F.X. Feeney (critic); Preview version: James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum (Welles scholars)|Documentaries: 'Bringing Evil to Life'; 'Evil Lost and Found'|Interviews: Matthew Sweet (critic/broadcaster); Tim Robey (critic); Kim Newman (author/critic)|Theatrical version (95 min), Preview version (109 min) and 1998 Reconstruction (110 min) all included|Trailers

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Cover Notes: Touch of Evil begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age also. Charlton Heston portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy American businessman on the US side of the border. As Vargas investigates, his newly-wed wife Susie (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock's Psycho) is kidnapped by a gang out to exact vengeance for the prosecution of the brother of their leader (Akim Tamiroff). Meanwhile, Vargas' enquiries become progressively more obfuscated by the American cop Hank Quinlan (played by Welles himself, in one of the most imposing and unforgettable screen performances of his career), a besotted incarnation of corruption who alternately conspires with Susie's captors and seeks solace in the brothel of the Gypsy madame (Marlene Dietrich) who comforted him in bygone times.

Extras: Booklet|Bonus Footage|Commentary: Reconstructed version: Rick Schmidlin (restoration producer); Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh (actors); Theatrical version: F.X. Feeney (critic); Preview version: James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum (Welles scholars)|Documentaries: 'Bringing Evil to Life'; 'Evil Lost and Found'|Interviews: Matthew Sweet (critic/broadcaster); Tim Robey (critic); Kim Newman (author/critic)|Theatrical version (95 min), Preview version (109 min) and 1998 Reconstruction (110 min) all included|Trailers

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Even More Details: Language(s): English|Interactive Menu|Screen ratio 1:1.85

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