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DVD Tuesday: Charlton Heston in the Great Touch of Evil | Ask FlickChick | 4/8/2008
DVD Tuesday: When Charlton Heston met Orson Welles; in praise of Touch of Evil; one wild and sleazy ride through the darkness at the edge of border towns.When you think "Charlton Heston" you think Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes,, The Omega Man (the nuttier of two precursors to Will Smith's I Am Legend), The Ten Commandments and Soylent Green (spoiler alert: "Soylent Green is people!). But one of my favorite Heston movies is one of his less well-known: the thriller Touch of Evil, directed by and costarring Orson Welles, along with Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten and Zsa Zsa Gabor — now that's a cast! And it opens with one of the most justly famous tracking shots in movie history: a sinuous, three-minute and 20-second glide through the crowded streets of seedy Los Robles, following behind a white convertible en route to the U.S. border with an ominous tick… tick… tick… always audible through the clamor of ambient noise and Henry Mancini's ominously... read more
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