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1955

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Starring	Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Michael Redgrave, Mischa Auer
Director	Orson Welles
Genres	Drama

Mr. Arkadin

A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--and his daughter, Raina (Paolo Mori). Arkadin, overprotective of his daughter, has his "secretaries" prepare a damaging dossier on Van Stratten--entitled "Confidential Report." But Arkadin then makes a deal with Van Stratten--he will pay the young man for preparing a similar file on him, for Mr. Arkadin says he remembers nothing about his past and does not know where he came from. Even his name is a mystery. Van Stratten's search for the truth about Arkadin's past--which takes him throughout Europe and to Mexico and features encounters with a variety of fabulously colorful characters--is highly reminiscent of Thompson's search for Rosebud in CITIZEN KANE.
Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, cosmopolitan party scenes, and extraordinary close-ups, MR. ARKADIN is a visually stunning film. The camera angles and movement, the exotic sets, the playful music, and the quick cuts--as well as the extremely entertaining and metaphorical stories that Arkadin tells--all help make MR. ARKADIN a sublime treat.

Starring	Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Michael Redgrave, Mischa Auer, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles, Jack Watling, Katina Paxinou, Patricia Medina
Director	Orson Welles
Studio	DELTA
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1955 To Rent: DVD: 15 Mar 2004

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- Silly melodrama which might have been suspenseful if done by Hitchcock, or even by Welles at his peak; as it is, weak writing and sloppy production remove most of the interest and reveal it as a very obvious bag of tricks.
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  One of those films where the cast obviously had great fun making it. Filmed on a shoestring the film is a weird mix, if you can imagine Roberto Rossellini ... read more »
  
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  Crap
  
  This film is toilet, it looks like a sloppy home video from the nineteen sixties, disjointed, dodgy camerawork and ultimately pointless.
  
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  Its actually not a bad film but this presentation is horrible. Blurry picture of bootleg quality and the mono sound booms out of the speakers. There's a &#... read more »
  
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  Mr Exposition more like!
  
  Orson Welles left America to work in Europe. This is one of the European ones. It's a kind of mystery thriller with an awful lot of exposition. The main ... read more »
  
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  A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--...