Details
Title: Touch of Evil
Original title: Touch of Evil
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Region code: A,B,C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5060000705010
Image: 1.85:1 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10 / Dolby Vision
Audio:
English - DTS HD Master Audio Mono
Subtitles: English
Rating: 12
Genre: Thriller
Cast:
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Joanna Moore, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Orson Welles
Synopsis:
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.
Additional features:
- Limited Edition Box Set - 3000 Copies
- Limited Edition hardcase featuring artwork by Tony Stella
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of all three versions, presented in Dolby Vision HDR: the Theatrical version (95 mins), the Preview version (109 mins), and the 1998 Reconstruction (110 mins), across 2 UHD Discs.
- A LIMITED EDITION 100-PAGE BOOK featuring writings by Orson Welles, François Truffaut, André Bazin, and Terry Comito; interview excerpts with Welles; a timeline of the film's history; two new essays by critic Richard Combs; and rare stills and imagery
- Four audio commentaries, featuring: restoration producer Rick Schmidlin (reconstructed version); actors Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh, with Schmidlin (reconstructed version); critic FX Feeney (theatrical version); and Welles scholars James Naremore & Jonathan Rosenbaum (preview version)
- New video interview with critic, broadcaster and cultural historian Matthew Sweet
- New video interview with critic Tim Robey
- New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman
- Bringing Evil to Life + Evil Lost and Found – two video pieces, featuring interviews with cast and crew, as well as critics and admirers
- Original theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles
