Mr. Arkadin (1955) on Netflix
NR19551h 47mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
A dying stranger on a Naples pier gives Guy Van Stratten two names, Gregory Arkadin and Sophie. The smuggler reaches the tycoon, who hires him to recover his past before 1927.
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- Netflix2.9/5
- IMDb7.1/1010,218 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes72%
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Plot summary
At night on a Naples pier, Guy Van Stratten and his girlfriend Mily find a man dying of a knife wound. He refuses the police and offers them names worth millions: Gregory Arkadin and Sophie. Guy is jailed for tobacco smuggling; once out, he and Mily try to learn why the names matter. In Cannes, Arkadin's bodyguards keep them away from the tycoon, so Guy befriends Raina, Arkadin's daughter, while Mily, a cabaret singer, angles for work at Arkadin's parties. At a masquerade ball in the castle, Guy finally meets Arkadin, who shows him a dossier of Guy's own record and offers a deal: trace his past, which he claims amnesia erased before 1927, when he finds himself in Zurich with a briefcase of Swiss francs. Guy starts with the two names and the year.
Cast
- Irene López Heredia
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Arkadin (1955)
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- When Orson Welles missed an editing deadline, producer Louis Dolivet took Mr. Arkadin out of his hands and released several edits of the film, none of which Welles had approved.
- In a BBC Arena interview shown in 1982, Orson Welles called Mr. Arkadin the "biggest disaster" of his life, blaming his loss of creative control on the film.
- Countess Paola Di Girfalco, who played Arkadin's daughter under the stage name Paola Mori, became Orson Welles's third wife in 1955, some time during the film's production.
- Film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum identified seven different versions of Mr. Arkadin in a 1991 essay, and two more have emerged since, including a novel and a stage play.
- Mr. Arkadin's plot came mainly from the radio episode "Man of Mystery," and most of the key elements of Arkadin's character came from a real-life arms dealer, Basil Zaharoff.
- Orson Welles dubbed several vocal parts himself, including the lines of Mischa Auer and Frederic O'Brady, and actress Billie Whitelaw dubbed Paola Mori's dialogue to cover her thick Italian accent.
