TOUCH OF EVIL Blu-ray
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| Tytuł oryginalny: |
Touch of Evil |
| Tytuł polski: |
Dotknięcie zła |
| Rok produkcji: |
1958 |
| Kraj: |
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| Reżyseria: |
Orson Welles
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| Obsada: |
Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh
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Opis:
Touch of Evil begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in
the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final
scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture
whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical
as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age
also. Yet, Touch of Evil has taken many forms. The film as released in 1958 was certainly compromised from Orson Welles'
vision, but a brilliant and lengthy memo written by Welles to studio
heads in 1957 - taking issue with a studio rough-cut had some influence
on a subsequent preview version shown to test audiences (and
rediscovered in the mid-1970s) as well as the 1958 theatrical
version. Forty years later, in 1998, Universal produced a reconstructed
version of the film that takes into meticulous account the totality of
Welles' memo, and ostensibly represents the version of the film that
most closely adheres to his original wishes.
Charlton Heston
portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to
uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy
American businessman on the US side of the border. As Vargas
investigates, his newly-wed wife Susie (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock's Psycho)
is kidnapped by a gang out to exact vengeance for the prosecution of
the brother of their leader (Akim Tamiroff). Meanwhile,
Vargas' enquiries become progressively more obfuscated by the American
cop Hank Quinlan (played by Welles himself, in one of the most imposing
and unforgettable screen performances of his career), a besotted
incarnation of corruption who alternately conspires with Susie's captors
and seeks solace in the brothel of the Gypsy madame (Marlene Dietrich) who comforted him in bygone times.
Welles' final studio-system picture has at last become secure in its
status as one of the greatest films ever made. It remains a testament to
the genius of Welles - a film of Shakespearean richness, inexhaustible.
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| Obraz: |
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| Czas trwania: |
122 min |
| Dźwięk: |
angielski |
| Napisy: |
angielskie, brak polskich |
| Polska wersja językowa: |
brak |
| Dodatki: |
- New high-definition masters of five variants of the film:
the 1958 Theatrical Version in both 1.37:1 and 1.85:1, the 1958 Preview
Version in 1.85:1, and the 1998 Reconstructed Version in 1.37:1 and
1.85:1
- O4 x audio commentaries, featuring: restoration producer
Rick Schmidlin; actors Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh, with
Schmidlin; critic F. X. Feeney; nd Welles scholars James Naremore &
Jonathan Rosenbaum
- The original theatrical trailer, which includes alternate footage
- Bringing Evil to Life + Evil Lost and Found two video pieces [21:00 + 18:00]
- Optional English SDH subtitles on all versions of the film
- A
56-page booklet featuring essays by Orson Welles, François Truffaut,
André Bazin, and Terry Comito; interview excerpts with Welles; a
timeline of the film s history; and extensive notes on the film s
versions and ratios
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| Region: |
Region 2 (Europa, Polska) |
| Ilość dysków: |
1 |
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