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(aka "Badge of Evil" )
Orson Welles said that this was the most fun he'd ever had filming a picture (and it certainly didn't look like he was missing any of the free buffets), as unlike most of his Hollywood films, he wasn't troubled by studio interference (until after he completed the picture anyway), he was given a healthy budget and he was working with a crew of some of his favorite actors on a script that didn't involve as much symbolism and all-out cinematic tricks as something like his materpiece Citizen Kane (1941).
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Theatrical Release: May 21, 1958
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DVD Comparison:
Universal Studios (US) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Universal Studios (UK) - Region 2,4,5 - PAL
Big thanks to Pavel Borodin for all the Screen Caps!
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| Runtime | 1:50:36 | 1:46:08 (4% PAL speedup) |
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| Audio | English (Dolby Digital Mono 2.0) |
English, DUBS: French, German, Italian, Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono 2.0) |
| Subtitles | English, Spanish, French, none | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Greek, none |
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Release Information: Studio: Universal Studios (US) Aspect Ratio:
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Release Date: November 10, 2003 Chapters 21 |
| Comments | I think the image quality of these two releases is quite similar. The region 2/4/5 DVD has audio language options and offers subtitles in multiple languages, which could be useful for many people. The Region 1 DVD has more extras, but all of them are text-based. |
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This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury
Theatre Playscripts by Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Richard France |
Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with
Filmmakers (Paperbacks)) by Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
Orson Welles : The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad |
Rosebud : The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson |
Encyclopedia of Orson Welles (Great Filmmakers) by Chuck Berg, Tom Erskine, John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh, Thomas L. Erskine |
Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director (Rutgers
Films in Print) by Bridget Gellert Lyons |
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