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Mr. Arkadin Corinth Films ; Film Organization S.A., Cervantes Film, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid) ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original story, screen-play, direction, Orson Welles
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amnesia--Drama.
- Amnesia.
- Billionaires--Drama.
- Billionaires.
- Human trafficking--Drama.
- Human trafficking.
- Smugglers--Drama.
- Smugglers.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Film noir
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (99 min., 45 sec.)) sound, black and white
- Other Title:
- Confidential report Also known as:
- Mister Arkadin
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] Grasshopper Film [2024?]
- Language Note:
- In English, with optional English subtitles
- System Details:
- sound
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- The enigmatic Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles) is more complex than Charles Foster Kane, but equally as wealthy, though the source of his fortune is highly questionable. The Wellesian plot device is Guy Van Stratten, a penny ante cigarette smuggler who starts up a romance with Arkadin's daughter, Raina, in order to meet Arkadin. When Arkadin confronts Van Stratten with a dossier he has compiled on him to stop him from seeing his daughter, Van Stratten has achieved his goal. But Arkadin outsmarts him by getting Van Stratten to compile a confidential report on himself under the pretense that Arkadin is a little foggy on how he got to be who he is and figures he has made some enemies along the way. When the characters Van Stratten interviews all end up dead, Van Stratten fears that he, too, knows too much for his own good. He saves his own neck by getting back together with Raina, the one person Arkadin doesn't dare touch
- Participant:
- Akim Tamiroff, Grégoire Aslan, Patricia Medina, Jack Watling, Orson Welles, Mischa Auer, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Suzanne Flon, O'Brady, Katina Paxinou, Tamara Shane, Paola Mori, Robert Arden
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Louis Dolivet ; music, Paul Misraki ; film editor, Renzo Lucidi ; photography, Jean Bourgoin
- Notes:
- Based on episodes from the radio program The lives of Harry Lime
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955 and released in the United States in 1962
- This version is the "Corinth" version: named after Corinth Films, the initial U.S. distributor of the film. Until the 2006 re-edit, it was believed to be the closest version to Welles' conception. Peter Bogdanovich discovered its existence in 1961 and secured its first U.S. release in 1962, seven years after alternative versions of the film were released in Europe--See Wikipedia (viewed 2024 October 28)
- Description based on online resource; title and statement of responsibility from title screen and end credits (viewed 2024 October 28)
- OCLC:
- 1464815391
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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