{"product_id":"touch-of-evil-region-b-w-booklet-used","title":"Touch of Evil (REGION B) w\/BOOKLET USED","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTouch of Evil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age also. Yet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTouch of Evil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has taken many forms. The film as released in 1958 was certainly compromised from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrson Welles'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e vision, but a brilliant and lengthy memo written by Welles to studio heads in 1957 - taking issue with a studio rough-cut had some influence on a subsequent preview version shown to test audiences (and rediscovered in the mid-1970s) as well as the 1958 theatrical version. Forty years later, in 1998, Universal produced a reconstructed version of the film that takes into meticulous account the totality of Welles' memo, and ostensibly represents the version of the film that most closely adheres to his original wishes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharlton Heston\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJanet Leigh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, two years before Hitchcock's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePsycho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) 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 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarlene Dietrich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) who comforted him in bygone times.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Orbit DVD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40989415309356,"sku":"5060000700374U","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/products\/touch-of-evil-region-b-wbooklet-used-used-blu-ray.jpg?v=1786444317","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/touch-of-evil-region-b-w-booklet-used","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}