Touch of Evil 4K UHD (1958) (Eureka Entertainment) (UK)

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Eureka Entertainment will be releasing Touch of Evil on 4K UHD on September 25th as part of their Masters of Cinema series. This will be a 2-disc Limited Edition set, with all three versions of the film on 4K. The film will come in a hard case with new artwork from Tony Stella, and will include a 100 page book.

Touch of Evil 4K Blu-ray



Standard Edition

(Release date: September 16, 2024)

https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/touc...l-4k-ultra-hd/

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Limited Edition Box Set - 3000 Copies
• Limited Edition hardcase featuring artwork by Tony Stella
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of all three versions, presented in Dolby Vision HDR: the Theatrical version (95 mins), the Preview version (109 mins), and the 1998 Reconstruction (110 mins), across 2 UHD Discs.
• A LIMITED EDITION 100-PAGE BOOK featuring writings by Orson Welles, François Truffaut, André Bazin, and Terry Comito; interview excerpts with Welles; a timeline of the film’s history; two new essays by critic Richard Combs; and rare stills and imagery
• Four audio commentaries, featuring: restoration producer Rick Schmidlin (reconstructed version); actors Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh, with Schmidlin (reconstructed version); critic F. X. Feeney (theatrical version); and Welles scholars James Naremore & Jonathan Rosenbaum (preview version)
• New video interview with critic, broadcaster and cultural historian Matthew Sweet
• New video interview with critic Tim Robey
• New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman
• Bringing Evil to Life + Evil Lost and Found – two video pieces, featuring interviews with cast and crew, as well as critics and admirers
• New video essay on the different versions of the film
• Original theatrical trailer

SYNOPSIS
Touch of Evil 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.

Charlton Heston 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 (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock’s Psycho) 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 (Marlene Dietrich) who comforted him in bygone times.

Welles’ final studio-system picture has at last become secure in its status as one of the greatest films ever made. It remains a testament to the genius of Welles –– a film of Shakespearean richness, inexhaustible. The Masters of Cinema Series is extremely proud to present Touch of Evil in its UK debut on Ultra HD Blu-ray.

TOUCH OF EVIL (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive 4K UHD Blu-ray Trailer - YouTube