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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 ...
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 ...
The shapeshifting contradictions of Orson Welles were captured on film over a hundred times, for the better part of half a century. Guy Van Stratten, an American smuggler, is told by a dying man about the mysterious past of Gregory Arkadin, an elusive billionaire. When Guy meets Arkadin he is hired by him to investigate Arkadin’s own past ...
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. From the lips of a dying man at a dimly-lit Italian dock, Guy Van Stratten, the disreputable American fortune hunter, receives invaluable information about the powerful financial titan, Gregory Arkadin.
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
9 de jul. de 2021 · In Mr. Arkadin, it’s something far more important: How elusive billionaire Gregory Arkadin first acquired his fortune. In both films, the title character is played by a heavily made-up Welles. In Kane, the subject is dead when the investigation begins. In Mr. Arkadin, he’s very much alive, but claims he can’t remember anything prior to 1927.
5 de nov. de 2000 · Mr. Arkadin. – A Maze of Death. When he was young, Orson Welles already played grown-ups. He shouted excerpts of Shakespeare’s plays in front of bewildered people, anticipating both his trilogy of works inspired by the bard’s oeuvre ( Macbeth [1948], Othello [1952] and Chimes at Midnight [1966]) and his own ferocity as an actor/filmmaker.
