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Director:
Writers:
Orson Welles (story)
Orson Welles (screenplay)
Release Date:
2 October 1962 (USA) more
Tagline:
Discovering the past can be murder... more
Plot:
An American adventurer investigates the past of mysterious tycoon Arkadin...placing himself in grave danger. full summary | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
Free Flick of the Day: Mr. Arkadin
(From Cinematical. 12 November 2009, 3:45 PM, PST)
User Comments:
Let's drink to character more (49 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Orson Welles | ... | Gregory Arkadin | |
| Michael Redgrave | ... | Burgomil Trebitsch | |
| Patricia Medina | ... | Mily | |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Jakob Zouk | |
| Mischa Auer | ... | The Professor | |
| Paola Mori | ... | Raina Arkadin | |
| Katina Paxinou | ... | Sophie | |
| Grégoire Aslan | ... | Bracco | |
| Peter van Eyck | ... | Thaddeus | |
| Suzanne Flon | ... | Baroness Nagel | |
| Robert Arden | ... | Guy Van Stratten | |
| Jack Watling | ... | Marquis of Rutleigh | |
| Frédéric O'Brady | ... | Oscar (as O'Brady) | |
| Tamara Shayne | ... | Woman in Apartment (as Tamara Shane) | |
| Terence Longdon | ... | Secretary (as Terence Langdon) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Confidential Report (UK)
Dossier secret (France)
Mister Arkadin (Spain)
Monsieur Arkadin - Dossier secret (France)
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Runtime:
93 min | France:95 min (Cannes Film Festival) | USA:98 min (TCM print) | USA:105 min (2006 Restored Version)
Country:
France | Spain | Switzerland
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Ultraviolet High Fidelity Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) | Sweden:15
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All of Paola Mori's dialogue was dubbed by Billie Whitelaw. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: A shot near the end of the movie, with Raina resting her head on the steering wheel of her car, is extended by looping the film several times. This becomes obvious because a man's shadow keeps appearing and disappearing in a gate behind her. more
Quotes:
Gregory Arkadin: Baroness, a fool is a man who pays twice for the same thing. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in La société du spectacle (1973) more
Soundtrack:
Saeta more
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You guys are great...so much interesting, smart stuff in all the comments. What can I add? Well, I saw it last night, and I was thinking about The Auteur Theory and Roland Barthes' thoughts about the one big book of which all books are a part. And, although I haven't seen Alphaville for years, I realized that the connections between these two films are important: the Mizraki score and the performance of Akim Tamiroff.Godard is such a great mannerist, and this film (Arkadin) is such a basic text for director - driven cinema. How can this film mean anything to anyone who doesn't understand the rage to create - against all odds, against one's self-destructive nature, against one's death wish? It is "breathless", truly. Scenes never give the impression of ending, everything is done in overdrive, people are constantly looming, dizzyingly moving in and out of shot; the grotesquerie of the bad acting rhymes with the grotesquerie of the costume set pieces and with that of the B movie Euro - freak character actors parading, one by one, in front of the camera for their star turns. "Feeding time" indeed! I saw Arkadin shortly after seeing Spielberg's Munich. The only similarity is in the constant change of location. But where in the Spielberg this functions as a celebration of money, budget and the power of illusion, here each location is both overcrowded and threadbare. The Munich of Arkadin is a bombed-out nightmare with traces of its former elegance. The Europe of this film is so haunted and sleepwalking; the world of this film is made up of bits and scraps.
The fact that Arkadin connects closely to Kane or Quinlan is obvious and certainly interesting. Although it should seem obvious at this late date that Welles has patterns and themes that reoccur throughout his films. Does this fact still illuminate anything? If anybody questions the fact that Welles is an artist...well, this film will just add to their confusion. But for us believers this film can function like the ritual suffering of the penitents in the film. It hurts so good!