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. The film’s history is also marked by this vertigo. There are at least eight MR. ARKADINs: three radio plays, a novel, several long-lost cuts, and the controversial European release known as CONFIDENTIAL REPORT. Criterion gathered all of these elements to create this landmark release—at last unraveling one of cinema’s great mysteries.
Directed by Orson Welles • 1955 • United States
Starring Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden
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 ...
Directed by Orson Welles • 1955 • United States
Starring Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden
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 ...
Directed by Orson Welles • 1955 • United States
Starring Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden
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 ...
In the following documentary, produced in 2006, film historians and archivists Stefan Drössler and Claude Bertemes discuss the principles behind the creation of a new, unique version of MR. ARKADIN. Director and Orson Welles confidant Peter Bogdanovich shares his understanding of Welles’s intenti...
In this video interview, recorded in London in January 2008, Orson Welles biographer Simon Callow (“Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu,” 1995) discusses late actor Robert Arden, producer Louis Dolivet, and the cameo by Michael Redgrave in MR. ARKADIN.
At the time of the filming of MR. ARKADIN, Orson Welles was perhaps most well known for his portrayal of Harry Lime in his radio series “The Lives of Harry Lime,” which aired from 1951 to 1952. Taken from Carol Reed’s THE THIRD MAN (1949), Lime became a popular antihero. Elements of MR. ARKADIN c...
At the time of the filming of MR. ARKADIN, Orson Welles was perhaps most well known for his portrayal of Harry Lime in his radio series “The Lives of Harry Lime,” which aired from 1951 to 1952. Taken from Carol Reed’s THE THIRD MAN (1949), Lime became a popular antihero. Elements of MR. ARKADIN c...
At the time of the filming of MR. ARKADIN, Orson Welles was perhaps most well known for his portrayal of Harry Lime in his radio series “The Lives of Harry Lime,” which aired from 1951 to 1952. Taken from Carol Reed’s THE THIRD MAN (1949), Lime became a popular antihero. Elements of MR. ARKADIN c...
The following is a 2006 interview with Harry Alan Towers. Born in 1920, in London, Towers started as an actor and radio writer, before establishing a production company, Towers of London, in 1946. In the early 1950s, he produced two radio series starring and written by Orson Welles: “The Lives of...
Since MR. ARKADIN was originally financed as a French-Spanish coproduction, Orson Welles reshot two scenes with different actresses for the Spanish version of the film. Amparo Rivelles played the Baroness Nagel and Irene López Heredia played Sophie. Those two scenes, one of which is presented her...
Since MR. ARKADIN was originally financed as a French-Spanish coproduction, Orson Welles reshot two scenes with different actresses for the Spanish version of the film. Amparo Rivelles played the Baroness Nagel and Irene López Heredia played Sophie. Those two scenes, one of which is presented her...
Found in the archives of the Cinémathèque municipale de Luxembourg, the footage shown here represents rushes Orson Welles used to construct MR. ARKADIN, at least as far as he was able.
Found in the archives of the Cinémathèque municipale de Luxembourg, the footage shown here represents outtakes, work prints, and rushes Orson Welles used to construct MR. ARKADIN, at least as far as he was able. It is extremely rare, and some of the only material in existence showing Welles in th...
Found in the archives of the Cinémathèque municipale de Luxembourg, the footage shown here represents outtakes, work prints, and rushes Orson Welles used to construct MR. ARKADIN, at least as far as he was able. It is extremely rare, and some of the only material in existence showing Welles in th...
