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Mr Arkadin (Original title)Confidential Report (Alternative title)Monsieur Arkadin (Alternative title)Dossier secret (Alternative title)
Date: 1955 (Copyright)

Countries: Spain, Switzerland, USA

Direction: Orson Welles

Production company billing: Mr Arkadin version: ©1955. Filmorsa-Cervantes Films-Sevilla Studios Film Organisation S.A., Cervantes Film, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid) a Mercury production by Orson Welles Confidential Report version: ©1955. Filmorsa-Cervantes Films-Sevilla Studios Film Organisation S.A. in co-production with Cervantes Film, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid)
Synopsis: Millionaire murders people en masse to hide his unpleasant past, but is foiled by an American adventurer.

Genres:
Action and Adventure, Thriller
Releases
Date: 1955not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Length: 8971 FeetLanguage: English

Credits (33)
©: Filmorsa, ©: Cervantes Films, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid), a Mercury production by Orson Welles: Mercury Productions, Production Company: Film Organisation S.A., In co-production with: Cervantes Films, Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid), Producer: Louis Dolivet, [Production Manager]: Michel Boisrond, Juan Solorzano Pinares, Assistant Director: José María Ochoa, Assistant Director: De La Serna, Assistant Director: Ferri, Script Clerk: Johanna Horward, Screen Play/Original Story: Orson Welles, Photography: Jean Bourgoin, Cameraman: Louis Stein, Paul Rodier, Special Effects: Lax, Film Editor: Renzo Lucidi, Assistant Editor: Colette Cueille, [Art Director]: Orson Welles, [Set Decorator]: Luis Pérez Espinosa, [Set Decorator]: Gil Parrondo, Francisco Prósper, [Costumes]: Orson Welles, Laboratory: Franay L.T.C. St.-Cloud, Music: Paul Misraki, Sound: Jacques Lebreton, Rerecording: Jacques Carrère, Research: Jacqueline Laird, [Translator/Fixer]: Ivan Desny
Cast (23)
Orson Welles ([Narrator]), Orson Welles (Gregory Arkadin), Akim Tamiroff (Jakob Zouk), Grégoire Aslan (Bracco), Patricia Medina (Mily), Jack Watling (Marquis of Rutleigh), Mischa Auer (the professor), Peter van Eyck (Thaddeus), Michael Redgrave (Burgomil Trebitsch), Suzanne Flon (Baroness Nagel), O'brady (Oskar), Katina Paxinou (Sophie), Tamara Shane (blonde woman in apartment), Paola Mori (Raina Arkadin), Robert Arden (Guy Van Stratten), Terence Langdon (Arkadin's secretary), Annabel (.), Gert Fröbe (German policeman), Eduard Linker, Manuel Requena (.), Gordon Heath ([pianist]), Amparo Riveles (baroness [Spanish language version]), Irene López Heredia (Sophie [Spanish language version])