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Plot:
A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin, a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives in a Xanadu-like castle. Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter, is interes...( read more 
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MCT:June 19, 2008Orson Welles' style in Mr. Arkadin is every bit as dynamic as it was with Citizen Kane. Unfortunately they're both equally as jumpy and sometimes messy. The movie's lavish style frequently takes a back seat to Welles' pretentiousness and whoever did the dubbing and horribly matched the sound to the film should be shot. Poala Mori was gorgeous but this movie isn't anything to wrap your legs around more than once. Recommended viewing for Welles fans but otherwise forget about it.
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MCT:May 18, 2008After watching Mr. Arkadin twice (once to see it and once again to attempt to understand it) I'm compelled to examine the inspirational possibilities.
LSD was invented in the 1930's but didn't come into popular recreational use until the 1960's. Mr. Arkadin was released in 1955. Rule that out.
Crack didn't become mainstream until the early 1980's. Scratch that one.
Federico Fellini made his first film in 1950, a mere five years prior. A possible but unlikely influence.
The best bet is that Orson just, somehow, lost artistic control and the film was cut, re-edited, dubbed, re-dubbed, lost, found, re-re-dubbed, and released.
As freakishly bizarre as this all sounds, the film still warrants 4 & 1/2 stars. Imagine how high it could have been had it made sense!! -
MCT:April 8, 2008a brilliant mess. the story of a reclusive billionaire played by welles in a fake beard and his daughter, played by his third wife, whose dialogue was completely dubbed. another film welles claimed was destroyed by the studio. the lead actor, one robert arden, is not great and resembles bruce campbell to a distracting degree. still a fascinating watch, some great cinematography and alot of fun. there are several versions out there; not sure how 'complete' this one was
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MCT:February 14, 2008
Welles has failed again in the narrative where there is a lot of ambiguity and unclear content.
On the other hand, the cinematography is always excellent. The use of shadows and darkness makes the film very expressionistic. The camera position is never at the eye level which creates a tense atmosphere in the film. -
MCT:January 10, 2008
Bad prosthetic beard, Horrible accents, amazingly exotic locations, crazy characters, shot masterfully on a budget that one would have a tough time spending it in a dollar store in other words simply amazing.
In 1957 maybe '56 Orson Welles shot his final studio film. This film came out in 1955, two years before his last studio film. It's quite amazing because if you've seen these films you would think that chain of events would be reversed.
Sure Citizen Kane is Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Ambersons is the Magnificent Ambersons, they changed the way movies were made and changed what we as viewers expected from films but this movie truly shows how gifted a story teller/filmmaker Welles truly is. He showed that with pretty much no budget and actors such as Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Robert Arden Welles still makes a phenomenal and masterful film. -
MCT:August 18, 2007
A beautiful mess, this is a film that is great to look at but very hard to follow. The Comprehensive Version is the one to see, if you choose to see just one of the versions.
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MCT:July 9, 2007
The storyline was wonderful, but the version I saw, which was called the Corinth Version I believe, was hard to understand because the dialogue was so out of place with the movements of their lips. The last 10 minutes or so was outstanding. Welles' presence is always felt through out this film.
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