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THE COMPLETE MR. ARKADIN (1955)
(aka Confidential Report)
complete 3-disc set


Frankrijk / Spanje / Zwitserland
Drama / Mystery
95 minuten / 106 minuten (Comprehensive version)

geregisseerd door Orson Welles
met Robert Arden, Paola Mori en Orson Welles

Een machtige, excentrieke bankier kan zich niets herinneren van zijn leven voor 1927. Hij geeft een jonge Amerikaanse verslaggever de opdracht uit getuigenissen van vrienden en vijanden een vertrouwelijk rapport samen te stellen zodat zijn verleden gestalte krijgt. Vreemd genoeg worden de meeste ondervraagden na het interview dood aangetroffen...

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Criterion Collection # 322

DVD Release Date: April 18, 2006

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Director: Orson Welles

Description:
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.


READ:
Welles Amazed: The Lives of Mr. Arkadin
by J. Hoberman
criterion.com/current/posts/418


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.62 + 6.64 + 7.24 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 93 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English


Disc 1: The Corinth Version
Disc 2: Confidential Report
Disc 3: Comprehensive Version


SPECIAL EDITION THREE-DISC SET:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfers of three versions of the film: the Corinth Verion, Confidential Report, and a new comprehensive version.
# Audio commentary by scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore.
# An 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 Drossler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Bogdanovich.
# Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film.
# Extensive stills gallery.
# Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.



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