BEE_REAL_ t1_je5k50n wrote
Touch of Evil is an all-time great movie, and it was made on a famously insane, impossible schedule. Orson Welles, who was cast as the villain, took over the role of director three weeks before filming was supposed to end, and it had not even started yet. He rewrote the script in a week and then filmed the whole thing, on location, in two weeks (while still starring in the movie).
unitedfan6191 OP t1_je5kvlr wrote
Wow, sounds insane.
Did he have anyone around him who helped or was it all his own drive and skill, an individual tour de force?
BEE_REAL_ t1_je5mayv wrote
By all accounts the cast and crew were very up to it (the cast had to lobby the studio to let him direct, because he was essentially blacklisted at the time from directing), but Welles was probably the most talented director in the world at that point yeah. The Citizen Kane of directors, some would say lol
His previous few movies were actually the opposite: because of extreme budget and production constraints, they were shot over a period of years in bits and pieces and had to be cobbled together later. Orson was already very used to making films with extreme limitations
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