The complete Mr. Arkadin a.k.a Confidential report /
American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2006]
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| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
322. |
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| Summary: | American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past. |
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| Item Description: | Title from box set container. "Special edition 3-disc set." "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. Aspect ratio 1.33:1 (all versions). New, restored high-definition digital transfers for all three versions of the film. Accompanied by book: Mr. Arkadin / Orson Welles ; [with a new preface by Robert Polito]. [New York, N.Y.] : HarperCollins, c2006. Accompanied by booklet featuring J. Hoberman; Rosenbaum, historian François Thomas, and Drössler on the three versions; and a timeline of Arkadin-related events. 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 Drössler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Peter Bogdanovich -- Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film -- Extensive stills gallery. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 3 videodiscs (approximately 302 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xix, 245 pages ; 19 cm.) + 1 booklet (35 pages : ill. ; 18 cm.). |
| Format: | DVD; region 1 (NTSC); Dolby digital, mono. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Comprehensive version: Film Organisation S.A., Cervantes Film, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid) ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; photography, Jean Bourgoin ; film editor, Renzo Lucidi ; music, Paul Misraki ; producer, Louis Dolivet ; original story, screen play, direction, Orson Welles ; the comprehensive version of Mr. Arkadin was created by Cinémathèque municipale de Luxembourg, Filmmuseum München, the Criterion Collection ; edited by Claude Bertemes ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Peter Bogdanovich ; picture restoration, the Criterion Collection ; producer, Issa Clubb. |
| ISBN: | 0780030109 |