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www.rochestergoesout.com - : Corruption has seldom been as much perverse fun as it is in Touch of Evil, the baroque detective saga directed by Orson Welles in 1958. Most famous is the amazing, three-minute-plus tracking shot that opens the film: A camera witnesses the planting of a bomb in a car, then follows the car down several blocks and across the Mexican border.Esquire magazine critic David Thomson labels the scene ''the greatest opening shot in movie history.'' more...
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www.epinions.com - : ''Touch of Evil'' is an excellent movie. It is also one of Universal Studio's strangest films from the 1950s. It is dark, lurid, and weird. more...
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85/1
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www.apolloguide.com - : Orson Welles’ brilliant Touch of Evil opens with a dazzling piece of eye candy: one long, fluid shot of a car planted with a bomb travelling through city streets, exploding just as it moves off camera. The shot is technically brilliant, and introduces the film’s great theme: evil is all around us, lurking silently, waiting to explode without notice. more...
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