In 1957, arguably the biggest star in Hollywood got together with cinema's most revered director to make a movie called Touch of Evil. Upon its release the following year, the movie would become ...

The second was the legendary opening to Welles’ classic noir “Touch of Evil,” an impressive display of mounting tension that is still being referenced and aped by filmmakers to this day.

While Welles signed off on both of these incarnations (this is not a sad case like “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Mr. Arkadin,” or “Touch of Evil,” where the movie was taken out of his ...