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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Orson Welles |
| Stars: |
Robert Arden |
| Actors: |
Jack Watling |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Switching Roles · Deception · Mystery · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Unrated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
061672721532 |
| Release Date: |
1955 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 34min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: 3-Disc Set; 3 Different Versions, 1hr 45min
Release Company: Image Entertainment, Inc. (April 18, 2006)
UPC: 037429207727 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Original European version, 1hr 39min
Release Company: Home Vision (February 10, 1998)
UPC: 037429121139 |
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Professional Reviews
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(05/01/2006, p.94, Glenn Kenny): "Orson Welles's globe-trotting 1955 thriller is one of his most peculiar, and hence representative creations..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"'It's my character.'"--Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles) relating the famous story of the scorpion and the frog
"I do not know who I am."--Arkadin to Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden)
"A fool is a man who pays twice...for the same thing."--Arkadin to Baroness Nagel (Suzanne Flon)
"Perhaps a man like you can't realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. You imagine it pleasant to be ashamed of something you can't even remember?"--Arkadin to Van Stratten |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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. <br> <br> Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, c... |
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