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Bracco, the victim of a waterfront stabbing in Naples, confides the names Gregory Arkadin and Sophie to Mily, the girl friend of Guy Van Stratten, an unscrupulous American cigarette smuggler. These names, asserts Bracco, will prove the key to a fortune.
Apr 17, 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 Complete Mr. Arkadin. Directed by Orson Welles • 1955 • United States. 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.
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story.
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.
Apr 17, 2006 · The Complete “Mr. Arkadin” is an attempt to collect and present the various versions of the film in as understandable a format as possible, including the Corinth, Confidential Report, and a newly created “comprehensive version,” which pieces together elements from all the others.
Apr 17, 2006 · The great and powerful, unspeakably shady international financier Gregory Arkadin (Welles) finagles a supremely unlovable American gold digger, Guy van Stratten (radio actor Robert Arden), into hopscotching the world—not just Spain, Munich, and the Côte d’Azur, but a made-up Acapulco, a studio Amsterdam, and a phony North Africa—on a treasure hu...
