Mr Arkadin
Orson Welles
M. Arkadin, a very wealthy arms merchant and self-diagnosed amnesiac, engages Guy Van Stratten to investigate his past. The businessman apparently built his immense fortune on money he can't account for. However, the investigator in charge of tracing his story very soon gets the feeling everything is all a plot cooked up by his employer himself.
With : Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff
Screenplay : Orson Welles, adapté du roman " Dossier Secret " de Raymond Chandler
Image : Jean Bourgoin
Editing : Renzo Lucidi, William Morton, Orson Welles
Music : Paul Misraki
Screenplay : Orson Welles, adapté du roman " Dossier Secret " de Raymond Chandler
Image : Jean Bourgoin
Editing : Renzo Lucidi, William Morton, Orson Welles
Music : Paul Misraki
Production : Cervantes Films, Film organization S.A., Mercury Productions, Sevilla Films
Distribution: Les Acacias
Distribution: Les Acacias
"An eminent and powerful king one day asked a poet: ‘What can I offer you?' The Poet replied wisely ‘Whatever you like, Your Majesty, ... except your secret'". These are the words that open this work by Orson Welles, a new variation on power and secrecy with Shakespearean overtones, 15 years after Citizen Kane. He made this film in Europe, five years after the commercial failure of Macbeth and having left the United States. "Ostensibly made-up, with a wig and a beard, as the god Neptune, Orson Welles organises a veritable man-hunt through the slums and alleys of Europe to as far as Mexico – a breathtaking journey into the depths of a murky and shady world inhabited by startling fallen characters (...) Blocked out, shot, edited into short sequences, shock shots, with oblique camera angles and prodigious camera movements, Mr Arkadin/Confidential Report bears the mark of Welles's genius in even the slightest scene" (Le Monde).