Orson Welles
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- 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.
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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.
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Jul 9, 2021 · In Mr. Arkadin, the investigator is Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler who’s just gotten out of jail. He’s a hustler who thinks he sees a way to glom onto some of Arkadin’s millions.
Jul 6, 2024 · What Is Orson Welles' 'Mr. Arkadin' About? After witnessing a murder in Naples, American smuggler Guy Van Stratten ( Robert Arden) and his girlfriend, Mily ( Patricia Medina ), track down a...
- Zach Laws
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
Sep 18, 2012 · By the time Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) finally arrived in America in 1962, the career of Orson Welles (1915–1985) had undergone more highs and lows than a roller coaster constructed across the expanse of the Himalayas.
The solipsistic puppet theater that is Mr. Arkadin projects a tawdry totalitarianism—Welles’s future wife plays the monster’s adoring daughter—and its collapse. In Mr. Arkadin, Welles reconstitutes the hall of mirrors shattered in The Lady from Shanghai, the better to reflect on . . . himself.
Nov 5, 2000 · These masks can be physical, metaphorical or both; Mr. Arkadin (1955), a French/Spanish production that Welles shot during his forced exile from the United States, falls into the third group. Orson Welles’ films are full of masks and false doubles; they’re always morally ambiguous.
