This fractured Citizen Kane, built of frames within frames and mirrors within mirrors, is aptly brought to life by Welles's later style, born of low budgets and high anxiety, its grotesque closeups and cocked angles suggesting worlds and minds askew.
Mr. Arkadin
Discovering the past can be murder...
1955 · 1h 47m · Not Rated
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Orson Welles
Overview
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Director and cast
- Orson Welles Director
- Orson Welles as Gregory Arkadin
- Akim Tamiroff as Jakob Zouk
- Grégoire Aslan as Bracco
- Patricia Medina as Mily
- Jack Watling as Marquis of Rutleigh
- Mischa Auer as The Professor
- Peter van Eyck as Thaddeus
- Michael Redgrave as Burgomil Trebitsch
- Amparo Rivelles Cast
- Frédéric O'Brady as Oscar
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Engaging meller it may be, but missing the incisive delineation that marked Kane.
Failure or not, it's irresistible.
For all of the film's perversity, there is greatness in it -- a greatness harshly criticizing itself.
A film, which, for all its strangeness, is seldom less than brilliant.
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