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	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		This version makes it even clearer that Touch of Evil is a flat-out all-cylinders-running, eye-popping masterpiece, one of a few monumental 1950s swan songs marking the end of the great epoch of traditional studio filmmaking.
		But as masterful as Welles's filming is, what makes Touch of Evil a staggering masterpiece is the global quality of his style, which causes every image to echo almost every other in the film.
		In particular, the original release print of Touch of Evil is a historical artifact, a record of what opposing forces--cinematically illiterate studio bosses and a brilliant filmmaker--produced together as well as a record of what millions of people saw.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1998/0998/09188.html (2359 words)

	Touch of Evil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Touch of Evil (1958), is considered one of the last examples of film noir in the classic era (from the early 1940s until the late 1950s).
		Quinlan is not on the take, but is bitter about the unsolved murder of his wife early in his career and has come to believe he can spot the guilty with his intuition, an aching in his bad leg, and he was willing to frame the guilty to make sure they get their just deserts.
		The A-movie was The Female Animal, starring Hedy Lamarr, produced by Albert Zugsmith and directed by Harry Keller whom the studio had hired to direct the re-shot material in Touch of Evil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Touch_of_Evil (1248 words)

	TOUCH OF EVIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Touch of Evil could only have been made by a maverick, and it's scuzzy and unconventional in ways that were so jarring back in 1958 Universal execs intervened in the editing, shot new scenes and reduced the film's running time.
		In the '70s, restoration experts discarded the studio-mandated footage and pieced together a version of Touch of Evil that was somewhat closer to Welles' original vision — for years, this longer cable and video version was widely considered the definitive edition.
		For its 40th anniversary, Touch of Evil has been reedited again, and this new cut is the closest to Welles' vision (producer Rick Schmidlin's restoration team followed a 58-page memo Welles wrote in response to Universal's changes).
	www.jim.aquino.com /touch-evil.htm (452 words)

	Touch of Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brilliant and difficult, the Touch of Evil I saw in 1982 was the standard version, released in 1958 by Universal Studios as part of a B-picture double bill with something starring Hedy Lamarr.
		That Touch of Evil turned out to be the last (and only the eighth) Hollywood movie by the once-revered genius behind 1941's Citizen Kane is only one of the many legendary problems and ironies associated with the project.
		Amorphous and ugly, this evil is insinuated by the film's stunning visual compositions and cuts (skewed angles, wide angles, proto-MTV speed and saturation: Hype Williams has nothing on Welles' delight in assaulting his audience) and spelled out by the dialogue and plot.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/t/touchofevil.shtml (1144 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Touch of Evil Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The mechanics of filmmaking in TOUCH OF EVIL, the play of shot and countershot, of dialogue and ambient sound, seem glutted by some strange weariness, the film’s motives and events and meanings clouded by ambiguity.
		Perhaps noir ground to a halt because of TOUCH OF EVIL, its gears hopelessly fouled by the rust of greed, the corrosion of failed hopes.
		TOUCH OF EVIL began as a workaday thriller based on a pulpy crime novel called Badge of Evil.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf00n3.html (1188 words)

	village voice > film > by J. Hoberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Touch of Evil, the project with which—some 16 years after Citizen Kane—the 42-year-old Orson Welles tried (and failed) to stage a Hollywood comeback, is a movie of transcendent movie-ness and still-astonishing virtuosity.
		Touch of Evil is a sensational calling card—Welles is almost touchingly eager to demonstrate what he can do.
		The dialogue is as intricately overlapped as the lighting is cross-hatched; the cameos are as vivid as possible in a fl-and-white movie; the camera work and blocking have the coordination of an Olympic pole vaulter.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9837/hoberman.php (1126 words)

	Touch of Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is Touch of Evil pretty close to the way Orson Welles wanted us to see it, and there is no question that the power of the film is enhanced by this longer cut with a cleaner story line.
		Evil does pour from every pore of Touch of Evil, from the flesh-distorted bloated close-ups of Hank Quinlan to the cheap music playing in the background.
		Included with Touch of Evil is the 58 page memo written by Welles to the studio after they recut his version of Touch of Evil.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/touch_of_evil.htm (1007 words)

	Touch of Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Those three words best describes Orson Welles “Touch of Evil,” which deals with the moral degradation and the price of corruption in a small town, just off the US/Mexican border.
		It was based on a book called “Badge of Evil” written by Whit Masterson which ironically, was never read by Mr.
		Though it has it’s gargantuan flaws, “Touch of Evil” was still an interesting piece of film making that films such as “Fargo”, “The Man who wasn’t there” and “The Usual Suspects” owes it’s gratitude for its atmosphere and style that paved way for those films to be made and be appreciated by the masses.
	www.pretentiouscryptoleague.us /reviews/le-touchevil.html (1074 words)

	Touch of Evil - Rotten Tomatoes
		Touch of Evil may be the sleaziest good movie ever made.
		Touch of Evil smacks of brilliance but ultimately flounders in it.
		Touch of Evil is a savvy starter because Welles' astonishing cinematic invention and his persuasive presence as star are prime noir at tractions.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1021749-touch_of_evil (825 words)

	a touch of evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Describing the aim of her book as an attempt 'to learn to understand Speer' she points out that 'while in such encounters it is essential never to pretend agreement with the unacceptable, moral indignation for its own sake is an unaffordable luxury'.
		Goya's Los Caprichos, for instance, deal with evil but within the larger of context of nightmare and madness, as if the artist is overwhelmed by the vision of nature he has evoked.
		Cady Noland, in her essay 'Towards a Metalanguage of Evil', adopts a similar baseline in her interpretation of nature but carves out a much more sophisticated position for the artist.
	www.francismckee.com /evil.htm (2337 words)

	The Sounds of Evil
		And while the Touch of Evil sound notes were a shock to Murch, he felt he understood them completely.
		The Touch of Evil project had two sources of material: an original magnetic master and a fifteen-minute-longer print, discovered in the mid-seventies.
		The tools Walter Murch and his team used to e-edit Touch of Evil were the cream of the crop.
	www.filmsound.org /murch/evil (2470 words)

	Touch Of Evil
		By the time Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil was released in 1958, American audiences were very familiar with the genre of film noir.
		What makes Touch of Evil such an interesting film is that it is considered a noir classic, despite Welles' flaunting of these conventions.
		A typical noir hero does exist in Touch of Evil; however, he is the villain in the film, the bloated Captain Hank Quinlan, portrayed by Welles himself.
	www.student.carleton.edu /~leichtls (213 words)

	Touch of Evil (1958)
		The aspect of Touch of Evil which immediately grabs the attention is the virtuoso and deservedly famous opening tracking shot.
		The idea of conflict between good and evil is central but this is expanded to cover the US-Mexico divide, the moralist-pragmatist conundrum and more.
		All of this gives Touch of Evil a deliciously tangy flavour, a movie which is as much about cinema as it is a film noir.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Touch_Evil.html (909 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Touch of Evil" review
		Orson Welles' deliberately cheapened, bawdy tale of the drug trade and police corruption in a seedy Mexican-American border town is a film noir pressure-cooker, overflowing with tension, fear and deception.
		In subsequent years three other edits have been released, but the version of the film in theaters this September was restored (by producer Rick Schmidlin and editor Walter Murch) using that recently discovered memo as a guide, and the difference it makes is evident from the film's very first moments.
		"Touch of Evil" opens with a crane tracking shot that follows the car with a bomb in the trunk as it stops and starts through the border town traffic, coincidentally leapfrogging with a pair of pedestrians -- the movie's hero, a Mexican narcotics cop played by Charleton Heston, and his new wife (Janet Leigh).
	www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/touchofevil.html (660 words)

	Orson Welles' Classic Restored
		Touch of Evil, recently released in a remastered edition, is one of Orson Welles' neglected and savaged films.
		In the case of Touch of Evil, scenes were dropped and re-arranged, and only with the discovery of a memo written by Welles detailing his desired changes are we now able to see the real version of this movie.
		Narcotics inspector Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his new wife (Janet Leigh) have just re-entered his native Mexico for his version of a honeymoon: stay in some tiny border town for a few days, and then go to Mexico City where he is to testify against a drug runner he arrested.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hollywood_archives/58581 (522 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Touch of Psycho? Hitchcock, Welles
		The use of the sordid motel as an instrument of psychological torture and an emblem of decay in Touch of Evil may have inspired Robert Bloch, who wrote the novel that Psycho is based on, to use a motel to capture an American environment suitable as a breeding ground for psychosis and random violence.
		The bordello run by Marlene Dietrich is costumed in a mess of braided lampshades, pictures, horns, and other aged paraphernalia that, lit with a slightly greyer tone and fewer shadows, reappear in a tidier form as the frozen-in-time artifacts of the Bates house.
		While the purpose of this essay is to point out the influence of Touch of Evil on Psycho, it seems fair to acknowledge a few of the major stylistic differences in the two films which may have covered some of Welles' tracks.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /14/psycho.html (2721 words)

	Touch Of Evil (1958)
		Touch of Evil (1958) is a great American film noir crime thriller, dark mystery, and cult classic - another technical masterpiece from writer-director-actor Orson Welles.
		Touch of Evil was the last great film noir during the so-called 'classic' era of noirs, from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
		Its central character is an obsessed, driven, and bloated police captain ("a lousy cop") - a basically tragic figure who has a "touch of evil" in his enforcement of the law.
	www.filmsite.org /touc.html (2098 words)

	Amazon.com: Touch of Evil (Special Restored Edition): Video: Joe Basulto,Joseph Calleia,Ray Collins,Marlene ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Some TOUCH OF EVIL fanatics may regret that the famous Henry Manicini's opening theme music is now gone, but one has to admit that in the way Welles envisioned, the opening long take becomes far more powerful.
		Welles has done for "Touch of Evil" what Hitchcock has done for "Psycho." The outcome is an authentic and exhilarating film noir that is very different from any other film noir that is out there.
		First of all, "Touch of Evil" is one of my top 5 favorite movies, and one of the most important and influential movies ever made.
	www.amazon.com /Touch-Evil-Special-Restored-Basulto/dp/B00004W46J (2797 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Touch of Evil at Epinions.com
		Evil" is not conventional, and he fits right in.
		There are differing versions of "Touch of Evil".
		"Touch of Evil" must be seen to be believed, and
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-1696-5566D71-37EADC82-bd1 (338 words)

	TOUCH OF EVIL
		Touch of Evil innledes med en tre minutter lang scene virtuost filmet med svært bevegelig kamera.
		Touch of Evil er en katalog over ekspresjonistiske og forvrengte bilder.
		Touch of Evil er en undergangsvisjon som synes å bruke opp alle de virkemidlene som hadde vært film noirs varemerke.
	www.bergen-filmklubb.no /Program/BFK_VAaR_2007/TOUCH_OF_EVIL.html (401 words)

	Touch of Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Yes, Touch of Evil has the famous 3-minute-18-second tracking shot that opens the film (borrowed beautifully by Quentin Tarantino for the execution shot in "Jackie Brown").
		But Touch of Evil is also stuck with a plot that's underthought and confusingly presented, although re-editor Walter Murch has managed with some success to clarify it for us, making sense at last of the first hour of the film.
		I think "Touch of Evil" combines overreaching with underachieving that in a lesser filmmaker we would simply forgive.
	www.movies101.com /TOUCHOFEVIL.HTML (560 words)

	skyjude - touch of evil
		If that's not enough praise and reason to seek this movie out then the first three minutes should do the trick in an awesome, jaw-dropping example of what movies can do with the right man at the helm.
		The novel on which Touch Of Evil is based was named Badge Of Evil and written by Whit Masterson in 1956.
		It was not until 1998 that Welles fan Rick Schmidlin eventually took up the task of recreating Touch Of Evil to the specifications of Welles 1958 memo.
	skyjude.users.btopenworld.com /touchofevil.htm (1305 words)

	Touch of Evil (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Based on a novel by Whit Masterson, Badge of Evil, Touch of Evil is a battle between two policemen--Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) and Ramon Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston).
		As Touch of Evil opens, we see a bomb being placed in the trunk of a car in Mexico.
		As a result, Touch of Evil has very peculiar, contrapuntal scenes where people frequently talk on top of one another, with odd phrasing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0052311 (1103 words)

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	Deep Discount DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		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.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemid=MCA020470&promotion=y (265 words)

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	Shaman King (Edited): A Touch Of Evil - TV.com
		We don't have allusions for A Touch Of Evil.
		We don't have trivia for A Touch Of Evil.
		Tell the world what you think of A Touch Of Evil.
	www.tv.com /shaman-king/a-touch-of-evil/episode/393170/summary.html (109 words)

	BSO TOUCH OF EVIL
		Y es que la banda sonora de Touch of Evil fue innovadora y muy moderna en su época.
		La edición discográfica de Touch of Evil sería equivalente a lo que hoy en día conocemos como "el disco de canciones" de la película, que generalmente lleva unas pocas pistas dedicadas al score pero que se centra más en las canciones que aparecen en el film.
		En términos generales, Touch of Evil es uno de los trabajos más entretenidos de Mancini (aunque, ya puestos, yo me mojaría y diría que es "el más entretenido de todos") y toda una obra maestra de la música de cine.
	www.cineybso.com /bso/res/t/bso_res_touch_of_evil.htm (725 words)

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