Touch Of Evil Orson Welles Director

Welles Is By Consensus One Of The Most Talented Directors Who Ever Worked In Hollywood, And This Flamboyant Film - A 1958 Exploration Of The Thriller Form - Is One Of His Greatest Achievements. Comitos Introduction Considers The Films Relation To The Tradition Of Film Noir And Demonstrates How Welless Mastery Of Cinematic Language Transforms The Materials Of A Routine Thriller Into A Work That Is At Once A Sardonic Examination Of The Dark Side Of Sexuality, An Elegiac Rumination On The Loss Of Innocence, And A Disquieting Assault On The Viewers Own Moral And Ascetic Certainties. Other Contextual Materials In The Book Include A Biographical Sketch Of Welles; An Important Interview With Welles By Andre Bazin, Charles Bitsch, And Jean Domarchi, Available Here For The First Time In English; An Interview With Charlton Heston On The Making Of The Film; Representative Reviews; Critical Essays By William Johnson, Jean Collett (translated Especially For This Book), Stephen Heath; An Analysis Of The Relation Of The Complete Film To Welless Recently Discovered Shooting Script; And Filmography And Bibliography.