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| Released: |
1958 |
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THRILLER
PANNED
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
114 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | Nobody, and we mean, nobody, will nap during Touch of Evil... Welles's is an obvious but brilliant bag of tricks. Using a superlative camera (manned by Russell Metty) like a black-snake whip, he lashes the action right into the spectator's eye. | | | | (Howard Thompson, New York Times) | | For all the tampering that has been done with it, [it] emerges as recognizable Welles, which in itself is a great deal in a time of stupefying banality and meretricious pretensions with which the current American cinema is rife. | | | | (Herman G. Weinberg, Film Culture, 1959) | | A terrifying, Goyaesque vision of corruption, and probably the most original thriller ever made. | | | | (Peter Bogdanovich, 1975) | | Often regarded as film noir's most fraught epitaph, Touch of Evil 's aura of nocturnal menace is unremitting, a despairing journey to Hades that is also electrifyingly inventive cinema. | | | | (National Film Theatre Bulletin, 1980) | |
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, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles 
, Harry Keller (uncredited)
