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TOUCH OF EVIL (’58) was based on Whit Masterson's pulp novel Badge of Evil. The project sat on producer Albert Zugsmith's shelf for some time before it saw the light of day. Through a misunderstanding, Charlton Heston, the star of Touch of Evil, thought Welles was going to direct the film. When he learned otherwise, he insisted that the studio offer Welles the job. Universal's head of post-production, Edward Nims, had worked happily with Welles in the '40s, and seconded the recommendation.

Despite Orson Welles' tarnished professional reputation, Universal eventually agreed to hire Welles for the film, but his fee was only for his acting. His writing and directing efforts would be at no charge.

The most famous sequence in TOUCH OF EVIL was the lengthy tracking shot that opens the film. The three-minute-plus shot opens with an unseen figure planting a bomb in a car, follows the car through the border town's streets, picks up Heston and wife Janet Leigh as they cross the border and ends as they kiss, and the bomb explodes off-screen.

Welles spent an entire night getting the shot just right. When the customs officer questioning Heston and Leigh kept flubbing his lines, Welles told him to mouth the words. They could dub the right lines in later. They finally got the shot at the last possible moment -- the sky was just turning pink in the east.

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