Noir Alley: Touch of Evil Extended (1958) intro 20210516
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Noir Alley: Touch of Evil Extended (1958) intro 20210516 by Eddie Muller shown on May 16, 2021
From TCM's Noir Alley (Saturdays at Midnight ET and Sunday 10am ET) hosted by the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller.
one of my 3 all time favorite noirs and 13 all time favorite films A STONE COLD MASTERPIECE IN EVERY WAY. I LOVE Welles .
Hated him feared him awed by him. Great noir character
A great introduction to a great movie. Love hearing Eddie talk about Orson Welles, you can tell he absolutely loves Orson.
Who if they are honest couldn't help but love Orson Welles. His genius and his unique personality make him a very likable person.
@@richardmcleod1930 Totally agree. I love guys like Nicholson and Brando, but Orson is easily my favorite figure in film history.
"You look like hell honey..." (my favorite line in this film by Marlene Dietrich)
The new 4K release is outstanding!
Good to know, thanks.
yay! Noir Alley is back! Thanks Noir fan!
You bet!
Thank you!!!!
My pleasure! Enjoy!
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! I mean this intro from Eddie....the film, I have yet to make a judgment call on THAT. Despite its marvelous technique, the story seemed a bit of a mish-mosh. But Mr. Muller, you have handsomely persuaded me to take another look at my TOE blu-ray. But I agree with you....Heston made up as a Mexican is not my cup of tea. Montalban WOULD have been much better, infinitely better. But the star power of Heston was no doubt fundamental to the financing and the box office, so there ya go.
"Badge of Evil" -- another film that questions authority and power, just like Kane. We can't deny the fact that Welles paved the way for countless other filmmakers, making the corruption of authority an important theme in motion pictures.
I enthusiastically agree re Montalban! BTW, Eddie is not affiliated with this channel.
Love the intro song.
Title?
Welles's character is not really corrupt. He believes in justice but he doesn't believe in according a defendant his civil rights. Also, doesn't spare anyone who gets in his way. Remember, the Mexican whom he framed was actually guilty and Welles knew it.
not really corrupt but framing people....lol...
@@willieluncheonette5843 No you don't get it. Welles's character actually believes in substantive justice He wants to convict the guilty and he does, but not procedural justice . That is the point of the movie. We need to have both.
@@trajan75 So, a feeling in his bones that the Mexican was guilty that happened to be right is enough to frame him? Do you really think Welles is a sympathetic character??
@@willieluncheonette5843 Yes his wife was raped and murdered. He knew who did it. He became obsessed with substantive justice but ignored procedure.. He became obsessive, obese. yet he knew his job. Some cases were clear to him but he no longer trusted the system. He became judge and jury, and ultimately ruined himself. He is a tragic figure in a classic Greek Drama, Marlene Dietrich character understood this so did his old partner. It's the essence of the movie. If this is not understood the film becomes a cheap somewhat tawdry who done it, and no one would remember it.
Mexican is a nationality, not a race. What race are Americans? Mexico is a nation of emigrants too. There are blond blue eyed Mexicans whose ancestors came from Sweden and Mexicans whose ancestors came from Japan.
Very true, which is why they really didn't need to put dark makeup on Heston. But maybe that's the only way the film makers believed viewers would think Heston was Latin because he certainly didn't speak with a Mexican accent.
I always felt Charleton Heston provided the only clean person in the film, and who could have done a better job? No issue with Heston using make up, after all he is an Actor isn't he.
Sadly, today the entire film would be politically incorrect.
No, it wouldn't. Its still a relevant film about U.S./Mexico relations in the context of law enforcement. The casting just isn't something that should be done again.
Just hire Latin American actors. Get Gael Garcia Bernal to play Vargas. Problem solved.
How can one argue with the Master, Mr. Orson Welles and he wanted and got Charleton Heston to play the part
This picture is a Masterpiece as is. No changes are necessary or needed. To do a re-make would only be a FAKE like faking the Mona Lisa which is the case with most re-makes..@@ambskater97
I loved the opening scene. But, honestly, I wish that Varga would have been played by an actual actor.
I guess I'll have to watch the movie again some day but, I really had a hard time with it. I found it frustrating. And Varga chasing the two cops around with the recording device in order to stay within range was just silly. I kept thinking it must have been inspired by a bugs bunny / road runner episode.
I have to disagree about Heston. He was definitely an actual actor, with a lot of talent and ability. But I agree with Eddie, Ricardo Montalban would have been perfection!
@@NoirFan77 I'll agree as far as saying no one could act Charlton Heston better than Charlton Heston. But, more than anything I want to stay friendly because I truly enjoy your channel !
@@blue04mx53 Hah-hah! Have no fear! I won't be pushed to hostility because we don't agree on Heston's acting chops! Hah! Welcome to the channel, my friend.
Are you serious your calling Heston a bad actor whats next your going to say Brando was average?
@@65g4 Hi Philip,
I must say I truly enjoyed Brando in Apocalypse Now, ( especially in the first 2 hours and 18 minutes.. He trailed off in the last 15 minutes though)
Also to be pedantic ( and I hope a little humorous ) I didn't say Heston was a bad actor. I implied that he could not act. If you liked CH in his movies then I'm glad for you. I'm also grateful beyond imagination that a channel like TCM exists so that both you and I can enjoy the shows we like and learn about movies we didn't know existed !
Who is your favorite classic movie actor?
For me Bogie is right near the top. Also Frederick March, and I'll watch anything with James Cagney in it.
Touch of evil is not the final film noir.. the final noir film is odds against tomorrow.
Maybe if you arbitrarily think noir or classic noir ended in 1959. I don't think that IMO Sam Fuller's Underworld USA is an excellent noir from 1961 and his Shock Corridor is a masterpiece noir and the second best American film in 1963, second only to The Birds. His excellent noir The Crimson Kimono was also in 59 but not sure if it was released before or after Odds Against Tomorrow
@@willieluncheonette5843 but the classic noir did ended in 1959 and classic noir evolved to neo noir in the 60s through today like harper, point blank, body heat, chinatown, juice (1992), blood simple, breaking bad, king of new york with christopher walken and the long goodbye so yeah the traditional noir era ended in 1959 and that's why i said that odds against tomorrow is the final noir film for the traditional noir era cause in odds against tomorrow there are scenes that would be cut out by the hayes code and the films censors like in the bank robbery where the old man gets gunned down by the police and grabs his gun and puts it to his head which means that violence and ßūīçīdę was becoming normalized to show in film which signalfied as the end of the classic hollywood era because back then you could couldn't show because the hayes code but in 1959 was beginning to be normalized but not ready to show blood coming out of the person's body yet and also the ending of odds against tomorrow ends on a sad note not normal for a traditional noir film should but ends more like a neo noir because the traditional noir era evolved into the neo noir genre in odds against tomorrow and so the classic noir era and classic hollywood era ended in 1959 and underworld usa is the first neo noir film to start the genre so yeah..
@@erickjrmaldonadoherrera4531Where did I say The Birds is a noir??? Please don't put words into my mouth.
@@willieluncheonette5843 i'm sorry for saying that.. i was about to send a comment to you that i was wrong for mistaking that the birds is a noir film.. i re-read your comment and the first i read i got confused but rereading it again i understood what you said that you said the birds is your second only film of 1963.. so i'm going to edit my comemt and take out where the part i said where i mention the birds. so i apologize i got confused the first time..
@@willieluncheonette5843 i edit my comment