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Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden) gets the order from Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles), to find out everything about his past, because he lost his memory. Stratten accepts, but when he finds out that all of the people he asked about Arkadin are getting killed, he tries to prevent Arkadin from killing him.
Mr. Arkadin (first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss co-production film noir, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain ...
Confidential Report: Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff. An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Orson Welles
- 1962-10-02
Apr 17, 2006 · A nother movie, another cause célèbre: Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin has been dismissed as a disaster and hailed as a masterpiece. In 1958, Cahiers du cinéma declared it one of the twelve greatest films ever made—unaware that its intricate series of flashbacks had been reedited and “normalized,” or ruined, for its French release by producer Louis Dolivet.
Orson Welles. Michael Redgrave. Patricia Medina. Rate Now. Leave a Review. Mr. Arkadin is a 1955 mystery thriller directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as the enigmatic titular character, Gregory Arkadin. The film follows Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler, as he investigates Arkadin's past at the behest of the powerful tycoon.
Jul 6, 2024 · Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles, is a gripping mystery thriller. The plot centers on Guy Van Stratten, an American smuggler, who is tasked by the enigmatic billionaire Gregory ...
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Feb 7, 2006 · Some of the uncompleted projects from the later years, currently caught up in legal and financial tangles, may yet find their way to viewers. And Mr. Arkadin itself will be due for re-evaluation when The Criterion Collection releases its new DVD edition . Unlike Gregory Arkadin’s, the lifework of Orson Welles only gets better the deeper you dig.
