Orson Welles’ 1958 film noir masterpiece “Touch of Evil” is being screened here in re-edited, fully restored form. But it’s already been shown in so many different versions — two from Un ...

Orson Welles’ great 1958 byzantine thriller “Touch of Evil” still seems close to the pinnacle of film noir. Set in two hellish Mexican and American border towns, where a corrupt-but ...

While Welles signed off on both of these incarnations (this is not a sad case like “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Mr. Arkadin,” or “Touch of Evil,” where the movie was taken out of his ...

The three-and-a-half minute tracking shot tells the audience everything they need to know about the setting, pace, and story ...

On Dec. 5, 1957, filmmaker Orson Welles wrote a desperate and heartfelt 58-page memo to executives at Universal Studios, begging them to make specific changes to his film “Touch of Evil ...

A ROUTINE genre assignment that its beleaguered director turned into the most Shakespearean film noir of all time, “Touch of Evil” was primed to be Orson Welles’ comeback, the movie that ...

It’s hard to imagine a greater tribute to a movie than Universal now offers Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil,” a film frequently called the greatest B-picture. Where to begin is the hard part.

In 1957, arguably the biggest star in Hollywood got together with cinema's most revered director to make a movie called Touch of Evil. Upon its release the following year, the movie would become ...

Orson Welles‘ 100th birthday arrives Wednesday, and the historic Crest Theater in Westwood is marking the occasion by screening the late auteur’s once-overlooked noir classic “Touch of Evil.” ...