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No Substance #222: Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight

No Substance #222: Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight

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Ben Peek
Apr 21, 2025
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My favourite Orson Welles film is A Touch of Evil. It’s not his best film, there’s at least three better movies he made, but that’s not surprising given A Touch of Evil’s tortured history, which includes being butchered by the studio and the loss of Welles’ original rough cut. The restored version that exists now is the closest thing we’ll have to the o…

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