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17 de abr. de 2006 · Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a Cold War European landscape. The film’s history is also marked by this vertigo. There are at least eight Mr. Arkadins: three radio plays, a novel, several long-lost cuts, and the controversial European ...
Discovering the past can be murder...Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arka...
- 100 min
- 115K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Mr. Arkadin must have held a special attraction for Welles, as he obviously cared enough to wrestle it almost all the way to the finish line. By 1955 he had accumulated more stalled projects than completed movies, and Arkadin had all of his favorite film elements.
Psychological Thriller. Cult Movie. Synopsis. Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over the editing to others. Following two Spanish-dubbed versions, released in Madrid in March 1955, the first ...
17 de abr. de 2006 · The Complete “Mr. Arkadin” is an attempt to collect and present the various versions of the film in as understandable a format as possible, including the Corinth, Confidential Report, and a newly created “comprehensive version,” which pieces together elements from all the others. The Corinth print was not discovered until 1960, when ...
To help in his quest, Van Stratten ingratiates himself with Arkadin’s beautiful daughter Raina (Paola Mori), much to the displeasure of his existing love interest Mily (Patricia Medina). Spanning a variety of continental settings, Van Stratten becomes a sort of Don Quixote (one of the film’s production studios is Cervantes Films ...
Angeregt durch seine Figur des charismatischen Verbrechers Harry Lime im Film Der dritte Mann (1949) bekam Welles die Idee für die Figur des Kriminellen Mr. Arkadin. Eine weitere Anregung für Welles war der Waffenhändler Basil Zaharoff, der ebenfalls mysteriöser Herkunft war und wie Arkadin ein Schloss in Spanien besaß.
