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Touch of Evil : Quinlan's Setup

After Joe Grandi (Akim Tamiroff) drugs Suzie (Janet Leigh), Quinlan (Orson Welles) double-crosses Grandi and murders him in the hotel room, accidentally leaving his cane behind at the scene of the crime.

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acting, canted frame, chiaroscuro, close-up, costume, crescendo, diegetic sound, framing, lighting, low angle, low-key lighting, makeup, match on action, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, empathetic, over the shoulder shot, performance, shot/reverse shot, tilt, two-shot, whip pan, zoom-in

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"Quinlan's Setup" in Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, Universal International Pictures, 1958, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1466

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