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Touch of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition) (DVD)
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Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, Joi Lansing
Director: Orson Welles
Studio: Universal Home Entertainment
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Running Time: 1 hr. 51 mins.
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SPECIAL FEATURES
· Restored Version: Re-edited in 1998, this definitive cut of the film is restored to Orson Welles' vision based on his detailed 58-page memo to the studio.
· Theatrical Version: This original version of the film was seen by U.S. audiences when it was released in theaters in 1958.
· Preview Version: Created prior to the theatrical version, this cut of the film incorporates some of Orson Welles' requests and was discovered by Universal in 1976.
· Bringing Evil to Life: This never-before-released “making-of” feature includes interviews with stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, crew members and film historians.
· Evil Lost & Found: A never-before-released documentary explaining the various versions of the film and the restoration featuring interviews with cast, crew members and film historians.
· Restored Version Audio Commentary: Featuring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and restoration producer Rick Schmidlin.
· Restored Version Audio Commentary: Featuring restoration producer Rick Schmidlin
· Theatrical Audio Commentary: Featuring writer and filmmaker F.X. Feeny
· Preview Version Audio Commentary: Featuring Welles historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore
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.