secret File (original title: Mr. Ardakin ) is a film of Orson Welles left in 1955.

Synopsis

Commercial Richissime of weapons, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles) claims to be become amnesic and engages an adventurer without scruples, Guy van Stratten (Robert Arden), so that it helps it to find the witnesses of its past. As the latter inform the investigator on the activities of Arkadin, before he becomes a very powerful tycoon, they are assassinated…

Data sheet

• Title: secret File
• original Title: Mr. Arkadin (US) Confidential Carryforward (the U.K.)
• Realization: Orson Welles
• Scenario: Orson Welles
• Image: Jean Bourgoin
• Music: Paul Misraki
• Production: Film Organization SA - Cervantes films - Sevilla Films Studios (Madrid)
• Format: black and white - its mono
• Kind: thriller
• Lasted: 93,95,98 or 105 minutes (according to the assembly)
• Coming out date: 1955

Distribution

By order of appearance to the credits:

• Akim Tamiroff : Jakob Zouk
• Gregoire Aslan: Bracco
• Patricia Medina: Mily
• Jack Watling: marquis de Rutleigh
• Orson Welles: Gregory Arkadin
• Mischa Auer: the professor
• Peter van Eyck: Thaddeus
• Michael Redgrave: Burgomil Trebitsch
• Suzanne Flon : Baroness Nagel
• O' Brady: Oscar
• Katína Paxinoú: Sophie
• Tamara Shane: woman in the apartment
• Paola Mori: Arkadin
• Robert Arden grooved: Guy van Stratten

Around film

Paperboard of opening: “A powerful king requested one day from the poet: What could I offer to you? It answered wisely: Anything, lord,… except your secrecy. ”

The turning of this film took place during 8 months with Madrid and in Spain, with Munich, Paris and Rome.

The history is inspired by an episode of The Lives off Harry Lime , a radiophonic emission of Théâtre of Old-Time Radio, itself based on the character of Orson Welles in the the Third Man

Comments Still a film " massacré" by the assembly of a third person and having suffered from a lack of obvious money. The whole remains coherent and the service of Welles in Mr. Arkadin is époustouflante, even terrifying. The realization, with the precarious means clean with after-Citizen Kane , remains above all very innovative and the direction of actors is faithful to the standards of Mercury Theater. -->

External bonds

• secret File on Internet Movie Database

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