Orson Welles’ TOUCH OF EVIL DVD Special Edition slated for October release
July 8th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Here’s something you won’t find on any DVD - Whit Masterson’s BADGE OF EVIL
Emulsion Compulsion’s favorite movie of all time is set to receive a (semi) deluxe, 50th Anniversary DVD reissue. Later this year, Universal Home Video will release a 2 disc set that will include the preview, theatrical and restored versions, documentaries, and audio commentaries by Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, restoration producer Rick Schmidlin, writer/filmmaker F.X. Feeny and Welles scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore.
The reason I qualify ‘deluxe’ with a parenthetical ’semi’ is because the set fails to include the outstanding 1999 documentary Reconstructing Evil. A couple of sites erroneously listed it as an extra included in the 2000 DVD edition. I double checked and aside from the trailer and a copy of Welles’ 58-page memo (both included in the new set) there is nothing in the way of extras. In its place there are two new documentaries, Bringing Evil to Life and Evil Lost & Found.

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