In 1958, the year Touch of Evil and Vertigo were released, these were the nominees for best picture: Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, Gigi (the winner) and Separate Tables. Besides Richard Brooks bowdlerized version of Tennessee William’s great play, I don’t own any of these pictures. I certainly don’t … Continue reading In 1958 the Academy Awards ignored Orson Welles’s TOUCH OF EVIL: Were they really that dumb?