WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Once again I appreciate your considered response, Roger Ryan. It's not odd when you consider that the producers wanted the film, they just didn't want Welles. Okay, so Orson wrote the motel scenes and directed them. Probably. Orson went off on a tangent with these motel scenes. Yes, I understand he ...

Who shot the drive to the motel scenes with Susan and Sgt Menzies? Who shot the motel interaction between Susan, Pancho, the Night Manager and the reefer smoking kids led by Mercedes? This doesn't look like Orson's footage. The motel interlude and the drive to it is jarring. It's a different style a...

There is also a bullfight metaphor going on. The three men circle each other as if playing a deadly game in a ring. The way the Matador (Uncle Joe Grandi) distracts and lances the bull (Quinlin) -- who thinks it's the other way around -- to weaken him, so the Torero (Vargas) can finish him off. Or s...

My thanks to Roger Ryan for his prompt and helpful reply. I would like to know more about who shot what on Touch of Evil. For that matter I would like to follow its production history from prep to delivery insofar as is possible. No reason for doing so other than curioosity and an admiration for the...

I appreciate the effort you put into assembling this chronology of the editing process. I thought I knew the film well, having seen the theatrical re-release several times and the three versions on blu-ray more times than I can count. But I'm thoroughly confused. What scenes did Keller shoot, specif...