TOUCH OF EVIL screenplay - the different drafts.

[jaime marzol]

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i have an early draft of the TOUCH OF EVIL screenplay, before deitrich, or weaver were on the picture, their scenes are not in it. when rick schmidlin saw the quotes i used from the screenplay i have, he warned me that i was going to have legal problems because the screenplay i'm using has not been legally cleared, or something like that. i have searched for the commercially available screenplay but can't find it. does any one here have a TOUCH OF EVIL screenplay with the weaver, and deitrich scenes? seems what i have is pretty rare, would be willing to trade copies of my illegal screenplay for a copy of the legal screenplay.

also:
has any one read any informative articles on the filming, or editing of TOUCH OF EVIL? anything from the editors? or studio employees?

has any one read a copy of THE PLAYER screenplay that has the fred ward character recounting that his father worked on the opening shot of TOUCH OF EVIL, and that he was there that night. i've read this quoted, but it's not in my copy of the screenplay.

[dm olson]

Perhaps that fred ward part was a late Altman add-on, because I think it was just thrown into the mix during rehearsal -- I seem to recall some promo clip of either Robbins or altman saying how they loved working 'off-the-cuff', throwing little Hollywood asides into the picture. It is in the film, not in the screenplay?

[jaime marzol]

it's not in the film, or the draft of the screenplay i have.

again i have the wrong draft

[ChristopherBanks]

Any ad-libs in that opening reel would have been a nightmare, unless you could get away with dubbing in your favourite lines from each take. How many did they do of that shot?

[jaime marzol]

i don't think i remember the T.O.E. quote being in the opening shot. i think i remember reading that it was said in a later scene with ward and robbins. ward used it to make a point.

chris:
on the voyager disc the have a section where the opening shot plays with the director, and altman discussing it. it's a a great disc, maybe one of the best voyager has put out. the voyager 8 1/2 also rocks. 8 hrs of material!

[sergio]

JAIME,

The script is available in the book edited by Terry Comito - is that good enough or do you actually want a proper typed up draft??

[jaime marzol]

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[jaime marzol]

it would not post, then it
posted my reply 3 times, thus the two extra text boxes

[jaime marzol]

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[jaime marzol]

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sergio:
i have the comito book, it's a good book, but that is a continuity script written by comito, not the screenplay by welles.

a lot of people also make this mistake with the rutgers chimes at midnight book, it also has a continuity script written the the person who edited the book that a lot of people mistake for the screenplay.

and yes, showing parts of the properly formated screenplay in a book to illustrate a point, i think, is preferable than showing unstructured text. i saw this in the book, 'hitchcock's notebook,' and liked it.

[jaime marzol]

orson welles interviews, and articles of interest. i would like to trade for OW interviews, articles written by OW, interviews, bio material from people that associated with welles.

i have:

the scenario crisis by OW

power and dis-integration in the films of OW

other side of the wind, with script sections

don Q by audrey stainton

oh hell, i can't type all this up. i have maybe 250 articles, books, interviews. if you got some and are looking for more, e-mail me.

cinema_vortex@yahoo.com