Name: The complete Mr. Arkadin a.k.a. Confidential report
Brand: Criterion Collection
SKU: SD_ILS:1543908
Availability: InStock

Author

Orson Welles

Call Number

DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Special ed.

Performers

Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff, Grégoire Aslan, Jack Watling, Mischa Auer, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Suzanne Flon, Frédéric O'Brady, Katina Paxinou, Tamara Shane.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (302 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Series

Criterion collection ; 322

Summary

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 set--which also includes outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, and a new comprehensive version of the film--at last unraveling one of cine

Notes

Container erronously states English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Title from container.

"The Corinth version" originally released as a motion picture in 1955; "Confidential report" originally released as a motion picture in 1955; "The comprehensive version" originally released as a motion picture in 2006.

Special features: audio commentary by Orson Welles 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 historians Stefan Drossler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Peter Bogdanovich ; outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film ; extensive stills gallery.