Yale University will screen the 1998 reconstruction of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil as part of its Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series later this month.
A new 35mm print will be shown at the Humanities Quadrangle, L02, at 320 York Street in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, November 14, at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The film will be introduced by Richard Deming, author of the BFI Film Classics study entitled Touch of Evil.
The Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series is presented with support from alumni Paul L. Joskow.
For additional details on the screening, visit, film.yale.edu/events/2025-11-14-film-touch-of-evil
Touch of Evil suffered a troubled post-production history, as Universal took creative control from Welles, re-editing and reshooting the film against his wishes, ultimately releasing it as a poorly received B-movie in the United States in 1958.
Forty years later, a 1998 reconstructed version, guided by Welles’ own 58-page memo to Universal and completed by Rick Schmidlin and Walter Murch, was released and is now considered the definitive cut, restoring the motion picture to its intended glory and cementing its status as a film noir masterpiece.
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