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Touch of evil [videorecording (DVD)] / screenplay by Orson Welles ; produced by Albert Zugsmith ; directed by Orson Welles.

Contributor(s): Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 [writing,, direction,, cast.] | Zugsmith, Albert [production.] | Leigh, Janet [cast.] | Mancini, Henry [music.] | Masterson, Whit. Badge of evil | Universal Pictures (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, 2003Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Feature films | Film adaptations | Film noir | Murder -- Drama | Crime -- DramaDDC classification: 791.43 WEL
Production Credits: Director, Orson Welles; producer, Albert Zugsmith ; screenplay by Orson Welles ; music, Henry Mancini.
Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles.Summary: Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, complete and uncut with restored footage. 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, Charlton Heston plays an honourable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. An unforgettable supporting cast includes Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy under-world leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy in this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini. The movie opens with a three-minute, thirty second continuous tracking shot widely considered by critics to be one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history.
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Based on the novel "Badge of Evil" by Whit Masterson and originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

Director, Orson Welles; producer, Albert Zugsmith ; screenplay by Orson Welles ; music, Henry Mancini.

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles.

Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, complete and uncut with restored footage. 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, Charlton Heston plays an honourable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. An unforgettable supporting cast includes Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy under-world leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy in this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini. The movie opens with a three-minute, thirty second continuous tracking shot widely considered by critics to be one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history.

DVD, Dolby digital.

Please ask for DVD at CCAD Library desk.