Editing Touch of Evil (section)

=== Filming ===
The film was shot in [[Venice, California]] from February 18, 1957, to April 2, 1957.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/variety205-1957-02/page/n249/mode/2up |title=Hollywood Production Pulse |magazine=Variety |page=18 |date=February 27, 1957 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Rollins |first=Brooke |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/195930/summary |title=Some Kind of a Man": Orson Welles as Touch of Evil's Masculine Auteur |journal=The Velvet Light Trap |date=Spring 2006 |volume=57 |issue=57 |pages=32–41 |doi=10.1353/vlt.2006.0021 |s2cid=193226352 |via=[[Project MUSE]]}}</ref> The location had been suggested by [[Aldous Huxley]] to Welles, who informed him the town had decayed significantly. Welles, cinematographer [[Russell Metty]], and the art directors drove there, and upon viewing the city's Bridge of Sighs, Welles decided to revise the ending to incorporate it.{{sfn|Brady|1989|p=501}} Sometime during the early months of filming, Zugsmith retitled the film to ''Touch of Evil'', which Welles later criticized calling it "silly."{{sfn|Brady|1989|p=510}}

As when he worked with cinematographer [[Gregg Toland]], Welles and Metty devised a distinctive visual style for ''Touch of Evil''{{--}}incorporating [[deep focus]], off-kilter and [[low-angle shot]]s (to emphasize the girth of Quinlan), and other stylistic touches that furthered the visual style of film noir. Most notable among the stylistic flourishes in the film is an opening [[crane shot]] that runs almost three-and-a-half minutes, which has frequently been commented on by film scholars.<ref name="Slash">{{Cite web |last=Shutt |first=Mike |date=2022-03-23 |title=How Orson Welles Filmed The Impossible For Touch Of Evil |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/808793/how-orson-welles-filmed-the-impossible-for-touch-of-evil/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=SlashFilm |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hagopian |first=Kevin Jack |title=Film Notes -Touch of Evil |url=https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fnf00n3.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=www.albany.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Peter |date=2013-09-24 |title=TOUCH OF EVIL Opening Tracking Shot |url=https://www.furiouscinema.com/furious-scenes-touch-evil-opening-tracking-shot/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=FuriousCinema |language=en-US}}</ref>

Heston's autobiography{{sfn|Heston|1995|page=157}} states that the scene with Vargas and Schwartz in the convertible marks the first time that a scene with dialogue was shot in a moving car, rather than a stationary one in front of a projection screen. However, there is an earlier example of such a scene in ''[[Gun Crazy]]'' (1950).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Sterritt |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Anderson |editor2-first=John |title=The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Da Capo Press |date=2008 |pages=7–10 |isbn=978-0-306-81566-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZW8vf47Owg |title=The Getaway {{!}} Gun Crazy {{!}} Warner Archive |date=2017-07-15 |last=Warner Bros. Classics |access-date=2024-07-16 |via=YouTube}}</ref>