Touch of evil [DVD video]

"[F]ilm noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tell the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot."--Container.

General Note:

Based on the novel "Badge of evil" by Whit Masterson.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.

Includes 3 versions of the film: restored version, 1998 cut restored to Welles' vision based on a memo to the studio; theatrical version, original version seen by audiences in 1958; preview version, created prior to the theatrical version and incorporating some of Orson Welles' requests.

Performers:

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin De Vargas, Mort Mills, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Contents:

Disc 1. Restored version (1 hr., 51 min.) -- Special features: Choice of optional audio feature commentaries: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and restoration producer Rick Schmidlin [offered with SDH captions], or, Rick Schmidlin -- Featurettes: Bringing Evil to life (21 min.) -- Evil lost and found (17 min.) -- Original theatrical trailer ; Disc 2. Theatrical version (1 hr., 36 min.) -- Bonus feature: Optional audio feature commentary by writer/filmmaker F.X. Feeney -- Preview version (1 hr., 49 min.) -- Bonus feature: Optional audio feature commentary with Orson Welles historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore.

Technical Details:

DVD in anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio presentation ; Region 1 ; NTSC ; Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subject Term:

Murder -- Investigation -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Drama.

Police corruption -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Drama.

Drug enforcement agents -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Drama.

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