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Mr. Arkadin is a french film of genre Drama directed by Orson Welles released in USA on 2 october 1962 with Robert Arden

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Mr. Arkadin
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Released in USA 2 october 1962
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating70% 3.547293.547293.547293.547293.54729

Mr. Arkadin (first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain include locations in London, Munich, Paris, the French Riviera, and the Château de Chillon in Switzerland.

Synopsis

Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, is at the scene of the murder of a man named Bracco. The dying man whispers two names that he claims are very valuable, one of which is Gregory Arkadin. Using this small bit of information and lots of bluffing, Van Stratten manages to meet the apparent multi-millionaire business magnate and socialite Arkadin, and Arkadin then hires Van Stratten to research his own past, of which he claims to have no memory before 1927.

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