Orson Welles' 1958 spellbinding noir 'Touch of Evil' has one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. In this episode of Film 101, we breakdown the intricate continuous shot to point out how Welles lays the foundation for the rest of the movie in less than four minutes. 'Touch of Evil' plays on TCM on November 14th at 8pm. Connect with Turner Classic Movies: Visit TCM WEBSITE: 🤍myt.cm/TCMwebsite Follow TCM on INSTAGRAM: 🤍myt.cm/TCMinstagram Like TCM on FACEBOOK: 🤍myt.cm/TCMfacebook Follow TCM on TWITTER: 🤍myt.cm/TCMtwitter Subscribe now to watch more classic film content from TCM 🤍spr.ly/6017cTBT
Love this movie
The scenes with Dietrich and Welles are priceless.
The exact connection between the timer and the length of the shot (3 1/2 minutes) was first noticed by professor John Locke at Concordia University in the mid-1970s. He also suggested that the shadow on the wall behind Heston and Leigh was, in fact, Welles' own. The director "signed" the shot. Furthermore, the rest of the film is not a rapid montage - a very long take where Quinlan plants dynamite, was done to save on the budget, and there is another flamboyant long take filmed in an actual elevator.
Seeing Touch of Evil on TCM back in the day is what really got me into classic movies so it is cool to see some more analysis and appreciation for it! Sure, it’s geared a little more towards younger viewers with the Marvel and transformers references but there was some good analysis and will hopefully attract a new audience to the film!
Thanks! Welles' numerous "oners" were one of my inspirations when storyboarding my series!
Beyond!!!
ha ha...one minute in before this gets woke. This is the reason I don't watch content between the movies anymore.
🍁🍂Cool flicks where characters are screening Touch Of Evil?Sneakers-1992,Get Shorty-1993&In Bruges-2007:)🍁🍂
You're an adult, stop saying words like "Raddest". You aren't doing commentary on the Skate Or Die video game.
Just to play devil’s advocate here- if Charleston Heston doesn’t put on an accident or look heavily made-up in brown makeup is he really playing brown face? Or is he doing an above board representation of the white people who currently live in Mexico?
TCM did a lousy job on not showing Murnau's Nosferatu last night on their Silent Sunday Night midnight show.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu, and TCM doesn't do a thing to mark the anniversary. TCM blew it. Badly.
yes! charlton heston was og white nick fury in TRUE LIES
One of my all time favorite films! Isn’t this film considered to be the last film noir movie?
One of the all-time great noir masterpieces!
"Extremely white" Charlton Heston-? Take a look at Mexican fighter Canelo Alvarez--he's whiter than Heston ever was.