Yeah, foreign posters often capture the essence of a film better than the official U.S. artwork. I've got a Belgian poster for Treasure of the Sierra Madre that I prefer to the original.
You could say Heston's miscast, but on the other hand, with all the weird turns by McCambridge, Weaver, Dietrich and Welles himself, along with pretty much everyone else in the cast, you kinda need someone stolid like Heston in there to ground the picture. I often wonder who else could have handled the task....Ricardo Montalban?
I think Heston is pretty perfect in the part. The whole stiff, lantern jaw thing is what Welles wanted and got. It's a perfect contrast with Welles' Hank Quinlan.
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The best poster for this movie ever! I love this film - it crackles.
Yeah, foreign posters often capture the essence of a film better than the official U.S. artwork. I've got a Belgian poster for Treasure of the Sierra Madre that I prefer to the original.
How great was Orson Welles? So great that despite Heston's miscasting and baseball-bat-up-the-rectum performance, Touch of Evil is a superb film.
You could say Heston's miscast, but on the other hand, with all the weird turns by McCambridge, Weaver, Dietrich and Welles himself, along with pretty much everyone else in the cast, you kinda need someone stolid like Heston in there to ground the picture. I often wonder who else could have handled the task....Ricardo Montalban?
I think Heston is pretty perfect in the part. The whole stiff, lantern jaw thing is what Welles wanted and got. It's a perfect contrast with Welles' Hank Quinlan.
this is a Belgian poster too: bi-lingual in french + dutch
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