Akim Tamiroff, Grégoire Aslan, Jack Watling
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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Orson 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 match...( read more)
a 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 an...( read more)
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 cr...( read more)
Mr. Arkadin is a truly unique film. Totally accepted within The Criterion Collection, Orson Welles directs a terrific story about a powerful, rich and feared man that hires an American adventurer in order to ake research about his past. Little does this guy know about the great d...( read more)
Call me a philistine, but I found this difficult to sit through. Certainly Welles's original vision shows through at times, but the editing and dubbing is headache-inducing.
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 ...( read more)
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