There's 'Evil' all over the tube tonight

NEW YORK - A beautiful, vulnerable woman portrayed by Janet Leighchecks into a motel and is immediately terrorized. A scene from"Psycho," right? No, it happened first in Orson Welles 1957 classic"Touch of Evil" (9 p.m., Encore), which was filmed three yearsbeforeHitchcock's shocker.

Long the favorite of film buffs for its fast editing, cool score(by Henry Mancini) and the legendary tracking shot that begins thefilm, "Touch of Evil" was a major disappointment for Welles. Uponseeing the final edited version, he wrote a 58-page memo toUniversalStudios explaining how they had changed his movie for the worse.Last year, editors and technicians used Welles' memo as a guide …