Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Role-switching, Deception, Murder, Blackmail, Investigation, Scams And Cons, Detectives, Cult Classic
Plot: 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.
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Orson Welles
Monsieur Verdoux, The Big Brass Ring, The Magnificent Ambersons |
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| Akim Tamiroff
Touch of Evil, Ocean's Eleven, Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution | | Patricia Medina
The Three Musketeers, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Killing of Sister George | | Mischa Auer
My Man Godfrey, You Can't Take It with You, Destry Rides Again | Peter van Eyck
The Wages of Fear, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Attack | |
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Paul Misraki
Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution, Et Dieu... créa la femme, The Finger Man |
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