Mr Arkadin
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Time Out says
Long unavailable for theatrical screening but finally resurfacing on TV in a version edited closer to Welles' cut than that originally released here, Mr Arkadin assumed an equivalent patina of myth and legend to that cultivated by its central character, non-naturalistically posited somewhere between Kane and God. Arkadin is the powerful financier who employs his own researcher to piece together his apparently forgotten past, to find a shabby Rosebud to dramatise his by-now bored puppeteering. Flamboyantly melodramatic, it's a playfully egocentric display of egocentrism and a magician's perverse revelation of his own trickery. Failure or not, it's irresistible.Author: PT
Release details
UK release:
1955
Duration:
100 mins
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Director:
Cast:
Mischa Auer, Patricia Medina, Michael Redgrave, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Orson Welles, Katina Paxinou
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