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Touch of Evil. Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, Touch of Evil, complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever! This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot.
Touch of Evil was based on Whit Masterson's pulp novel Badge of Evil.The project sat on producer Albert Zugsmith's shelf for some time before it saw the light of day. Through a misunderstanding, Charlton Heston, the star of Touch of Evil, thought Welles was going to direct the film.When he learned otherwise, he insisted that the studio offer Welles the job.
23 de may. de 2023 · “Touch of Evil” (Sed De Mal, 1958) es la última película que Orson Welles rueda en Hollywood. Los ejecutivos de la Universal Studios, espantados ante el visionado de “Touch of Evil” (1958), le arrebataron la película para remontarla y rodar escenas adicionales sin contar con él. Orson Welles escribió un memorando de 58 páginas con las indicaciones para realizar un nuevo montaje ...
Welles consigue transformar un thriller bastante convencional en una de las piezas clave del género negro. De hecho, para muchos críticos y cineastas, como Paul Schrader, Sed de mal supuso la última gran película del cine negro clásico, algo así como el epitafio de una forma de hacer cine que había comenzado con El halcón maltés ( The ...
Touch of Evil dissects the nature of good and evil in a hallucinatory, nightmarish ambience, helped by the shadow-laden cinematography of Russell Metty and by the cast, which, along with Tamiroff and Welles includes Charlton Heston as a Mexican; Marlene Dietrich, in a brunette wig, as a brittle madam who delivers the movie's unforgettable closing words; Mercedes McCambridge as a junkie; and ...
9 de jul. de 2015 · To associate with Quinlan is to be touched, smeared, molested by pure evil. But poor Quinlan long ago resigned himself to his own petty corruption. When Orson met Larry: ‘Welles was a very bad boy.
Verenigde Staten 1958. Drama van Orson Welles. Met o.a. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia en Akim Tamiroff. VPRO Cinema. Fameus karakterspel met Orson Welles en Charlton Heston als eigengereide politiechefs aan weerszijden van de Amerikaans-Mexicaanse grens, met een dodelijke bomaanslag op een rijkaard als gangmaker.
