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All this chatter forced me to rent "Touch of Evil" last night . . .

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Surprised at all the heavy-weight talent. Wow! The score was great also. And the cinematography was brilliantly stylish. The shadows and stark contrasts. Dietrich looks so damned good in the last scene and Joseph Cotten struck me as being straight from Kane.
Even though Evil was super-Noir it still had the Kane signature in the cinematograhpy department. Did Welles use the same guy for most of his films?

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Re: All this chatter forced me to rent "Touch of Evil" last night . . . - Victor Khomenko 16:19:51 11/29/03 (0)
Try also the two Kubrick's early films: The Killing and Killer's Kiss... I am sure you will love them.
Yep . . . - Troy 14:48:18 11/29/03 (0)
. . . it's a 5 star film noir classic. Hard to believe it was shot in Venice Beach, guerilla-style.
Great Mancini score indeed. That was his first soundtrack gig!
Re: All this chatter forced me to rent "Touch of Evil" last night . . . - Ears 12:51:16 11/29/03 (5)
Lots to like in that film. I always get a kick out of Dennis Weaver's goofball performance, too.
- Touch of Chester - PeterS 17:42:38 11/29/03 (3)
  Watched the movie on cable other night, and I still wonder at what the director said to Dennis Weaver to get him to give that performance? I still think he pissed his pants when Heston shows up looking for the gun.
  If nature loathes a vacuum then why do vac. tubes sound so natural???
  - Re: Dennie Weaver - rico 05:38:03 11/30/03 (2)
    I think Weaver did a great job in "Duel", Speilberg's first film, originally done for TV and then expanded.
    - Re: Dual - PeterS 05:49:13 12/01/03 (1)
      Yep, I remember watching Dual when it first premiered on TV ('71?) and thought it was great. Dennis was excellent as the everyman thrown into a nightmare, esp. the scene when he's climbing up the long grade and his car is overheating; "comemon...comeon!!!...shreek gasp pant!!!" I think Sci-Fi ran it some time ago, it still stands up.
      PeteS
      If nature loathes a vacuum then why do vac. tubes sound so natural???
      - Re: Duel - rico 07:26:17 12/01/03 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Dual posted by PeterS on December 01, 2003 at 05:49:13:
        
        Yes, I too saw it on broadcast TV, having been transfixed by the story shortly before in Playboy. I have a laserdisc of the theatrical version and it still stands up. I love the scene where he's talkimg with his wife on the public telephone.
        Every time one of those tank trucks passes me on a highway I think of that movie. Did you know that Spielberg mixed in an animal sound when the truck finally careens over the cliff, the same sound that was also used in the mix of the shark dying in Jaws and later in the Jurrasic Park movies?
- I was expecting, any second, for Dennis . . . - albee33 16:17:42 11/29/03 (0)
  to blurt out: "Marshall Dillion, Marshall Dillion". It was close!
Re: All this chatter forced me to rent "Touch of Evil" last night . . . - rico 11:41:24 11/29/03 (0)
Russell Metty did the cinematography on TOE whereas the incredibly talented and innovative Greg Tolland shot Citizen Kane. But I agree that Welles' stamp is all over this and all of his other projects.

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