Description
Mr. Arkadin DVD 1955 Bizalmas Jelentés (Confidential Report) / Directed by Orson Welles / Starring: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff
UPC 5999553600384 / 5999016344275 / IPH 7032
MADE IN Germany
REGION 2 PAL DVD (BLACK & WHITE)
Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0
Subtitle: Hungarian
Playtime: 98 minutes
English Summary:
Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, is found desperately trying to get a man called Jakob Zouk (Akim Tamiroff) to leave his bare, ruinous room in Munich and come with him to safety. When Zouk alleges that he's dying and doesn't want to be disturbed, Guy desperately tells him why he has to come. We see the story in flashback as he narrates it to Zouk.
In the flashback, Guy is with his girlfriend and accomplice Mily (Patricia Medina) in Naples when a man named Bracco is knifed in the street. Bracco does not want his last moments to be taken up with doctors and police, and he rewards the couple for not calling them with two names that he says will be profitable to them: he names Gregory Arkadin to Guy, and one “Sophie” to Mily. They get away as Bracco dies, and approach Arkadin, a famous and super-wealthy businessman (Orson Welles), to see if the murder and vague references to his “secret” can be used to blackmail him. Arkadin's only human tie in a life of power and pleasure is his daughter Raina (Paola Mori), and Guy manages to strike up an acquaintance with her and thus get into Arkadin's castle in Spain. He and Raina also develop feelings for each other, though they cover them up with cool sophistication.
Hungarian Summary:
A különc pénzmágnás, Mr. Arkagyin hollétéről egyedül a Münchenben élő, kiöregedett piti szélhámosnak van valami sejtelme. Ezért keresi fel Guy Van Stratten, a cigarettacsempészettel is próbálkozó volt kalandor, aki korábban Arkagyin lányán, Rainán keresztül ismerkedett meg a titokzatos milliomossal. A csodabogár akkor azzal bízta meg: derítse fel a múltját, mivel - állítása szerint - amnéziában szenved. Az alkalmi nyomozó egyre mélyebbre merül a múlt bugyraiba.
Cast / Szereplők:
- Orson Welles as Gregory Arkadin
- Robert Arden as Guy Van Stratten
- Patricia Medina as Mily
- Paola Mori as Raina Arkadin
- Akim Tamiroff as Jakob Zouk
- Gregoire Aslan as Bracco
- Jack Watling as Bob, the Marquess of Rutleigh
- Mischa Auer as the Professor
- Peter Van Eyck as Thaddeus
- Michael Redgrave as Burgomil Trebitsch
- Suzanne Flon as Baroness Nagel
- Frederick O'Brady as Oskar
- Katina Paxinou as Sophie Radzweickz Martinez
- Manuel Requena as Jesus Martinez
- Tamara Shayne as the woman who hides Zouk
- Terence Langdon as Mr. Arkadin's Secretary
- Gert Fröbe as a Munich Detective
- Eduard Linker as a Munich Policeman
- Gordon Heath as the pianist in the Cannes bar
- Annabel as the woman with a baguette in Paris
- Irene López Heredia as Sofía (only in Spanish version)
- Amparo Rivelles as Baroness Nagel (only in Spanish version)
Directed by | Orson Welles |
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Produced by | Louis Dolivet Orson Welles |
Screenplay by | Orson Welles |
Based on | original radio scripts by Ernest Bornemann and Orson Welles from The Lives of Harry Lime originally produced by Harry Alan Towers (uncredited) |
Starring | Orson Welles Robert Arden Paola Mori Akim Tamiroff Michael Redgrave |
Music by | Paul Misraki |
Edited by | Renzo Lucidi |
Distributed by | Filmorsa/Cervantes Films/Sevilla (Spain), Warner Bros. (USA) |
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Running time
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99 minutes ("Corinth" version) 93 minutes (Spanish version) 95 minutes (public domain version) 98 minutes (Confidential Report) 106 minutes (2006 edit) |
Country | France Spain Switzerland |
Language | English |