The Complete Mr. Arkadin
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 box set—which also includes outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, and a new comprehensive version of the film—at last unraveling one of cinema’s great mysteries.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfers of three versions of the film: the Corinth Version, Confidential Report, and a new comprehensive version
- Audio commentary by scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore
- Interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow, featuring his audio interview with star Robert Arden
- Three half-hour episodes of the radio program The Lives of Harry Lime, upon which the film is based, and an interview with producer Harry Alan Towers
- On the Comprehensive Version, a new documentary featuring interviews with film historian Stefan Drössler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Bogdanovich
- Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film
- Extensive stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Mr. Arkadin, the novel, with a new preface by Robert Polito, and a booklet featuring J. Hoberman, Rosenbaum, film historian François Thomas, and Drössler on the three versions; and a time line of Arkadin-related events
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfers of three versions of the film: the Corinth Version, Confidential Report, and a new comprehensive version
- Audio commentary by scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore
- Interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow, featuring his audio interview with star Robert Arden
- Three half-hour episodes of the radio program The Lives of Harry Lime, upon which the film is based, and an interview with producer Harry Alan Towers
- On the Comprehensive Version, a new documentary featuring interviews with film historian Stefan Drössler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Bogdanovich
- Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film
- Extensive stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Mr. Arkadin, the novel, with a new preface by Robert Polito, and a booklet featuring J. Hoberman, Rosenbaum, film historian François Thomas, and Drössler on the three versions; and a time line of Arkadin-related events
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Orson Welles
- Gregory Arkadin
- Paola Mori
- Raina Arkadin
- Robert Arden
- Guy van Stratten
- Patricia Medina
- Mily
- Akim Tamiroff
- Jakob Zouk
- Grégoire Aslan
- Bracco
- Jack Watling
- Bob, the Marquis of Rutleigh
- Mischa Auer
- The professor
- Peter Van Eyck
- Tadeus
- Michael Redgrave
- Bergomil Trebitsch
- Suzanne Flon
- Baroness Nagel
- Frédéric O’Brady
- Oskar
- Katina Paxinou
- Sophie
- Tamara Shayne
- Woman in apartment
Credits
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Original story
- Orson Welles
- Screenplay
- Orson Welles
- Producer
- Jean Bourgoin
- Music
- Paul Misraki
- Executive producer
- Louis Dolivet
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