Tagged: charlton heston

March 4, 2019

Monday Movie: Touch of Evil, by Aaron Pinkston

This originally ran in September 2012 as a part of Aaron’s series on 1950s American films. In his introduction of Touch of Evil at the Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute professor Fred Camper called the 1950s...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

November 8, 2018

Criterion Prediction #164: Touch of Evil, by Alexander Miller

Title: Touch of Evil Year: 1958 Director: Orson Welles Cast: Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Victor Millan, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten Synopsis: Mexican narcotics agent Miguel Vargas is entangled in a case rife with corruption and scandal...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / scott nye

May 8, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Ruby Gentry, by Scott Nye

One of the great pleasures returning to the TCM Classic Film Festival year after year has been acquainting myself with the early sound films of King Vidor. Not always widely distributed or even discussed, I was nevertheless blown away by...

david bax / monday movie / movies

March 5, 2018

Monday Movie: Major Dundee, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll recommend a movie–it could be a classic, an overlooked recent treasure, an unfairly maligned personal favorite or whatever the hell we feel like–and we’ll tell you where to find it online. Up until an “extended cut” was...