DVD Review

Touch of Evil (2008)

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LITTLE BIT MORE Charlton Heston stars in the grade-A, 1958 B-movie Touch of Evil

Everett Collection

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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Oct 07, 2008; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Marlene Dietrich, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles

By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

With due respect to that fun little potboiler Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil might be Orson Welles' most relentlessly entertaining directorial effort, combining everything you love about Shakespearean power plays and '50s-era B movies. This anniversary set is a film buff’s dream, with three historical edits — the original, the longer 1976 cut, and a '98 reconstruction — plus expert commentaries and Welles' famously aggrieved 58-page studio memo. Even the most bowdlerized version is a masterpiece. A

Posted Oct 14, 2008

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