Film-Noir | Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) Orson Welles | Movie, Subtiles

Discovering the past can be murder...
Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can’t remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance’s life story. Guy’s research turns up stunning details about his employer’s past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Original title: Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Colorized version: • Confidential Report (1...
Director & Writer: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
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[@MediaWest]

a most underrated, not seen much, welles masterpiece. just his direction set the tone for many students that followed his style. classic...

[@phdtobe]

Shadow and light. Mystery and intrigue. Fast-paced and engrossing. Bravo, Mr. Welles! Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Teeveepicksures]

Cannot wait for this one. This channel reminds me of staying over my nana's house when i was very young and she let me stay up and watch Twilight Zone and the Late Late Movie with her. ❤

[@nameskhar1510]

... My aunt Hazel👀

[@nicoletanis3703]

I really enjoy this film noir with many talented actors. Thanks CCC!

[@willieluncheonette5843]

I love this one, even though there are quite a few versions floating around and though I've seen this film many times, I'm not sure which version I was watching. I've always thought this was like a student film made by a master. Of course, anything by Welles is crucial.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

E a terceira ou quarta vez que vejo este filme. Nunca é o mesmo, sempre surpreendendo com seus excessos e referências a uma cultura artística muito pessoal. Há muito para ver e acompanhar a cada sequência, de modo a manter o foco da atenção ligada na ação sempre sobre o fundo de mais, de muito mais coisas impossíveis de acompanhar. Como se com isso Welles nos pedisse para reve-lo muitas vezes, o que e próprio aliás das obras que persistem. Consegue ele esse resultado? Talvez ou certamente que não se comparado a Citizen Kane. Mas talvez quanto ao barroquismo das imagens sempre frenéticas. Isso sem nada dizer que Mister Arcádia se soma sem duvida aos outros filmes de Welles quanto ao sentido de um dos mais pessoais cineastas do Cinema.

[@artroraback8663]

Thanks for sharing this fantastic movie!

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

This is a gem! Mr. Arkadin, ORSON WELLES. Great upload, CCC!

[@strangevisions5162]

it's a gem alright...a CZ from Walmart 😂

[@user-pt4gf6vk7z]

thanks for an un-colorized edition.

[@TheRickie41]

To me, one of the best movies ever made.

[@johnbroadway4196]

Yunz can't fool me. It's one of Orson Welles home movie's. I'm digging it.

[@clarehennessey3653]

I just loved this movie, thank you very much.

[@fiorellafenati5395]

great film, articulated, full of suspense and twists. Orson Welles is the usual Grande.

[@michaelpessin7233]

Thanks for all the great 👍 movies...!!

[@CultCinemaClassics]

@michaelpessin7233 Superkalajafragelistic!!! Thanks for your super thanks super like !!!

[@noellschneider]

I could not stop watching it though...

[@mishrakaushik1]

43:28 i love the dialogues. I am afraid even after 20000 years murder is still a business in the hands of amateurs

[@uslines]

Thank you for providing this great film😊 😊in B/W..

[@christophedevos3760]

A strange but certainly fascinating movie , more a crossover between film noir and a Beckett play or maybe a metafictional reflection of Welles on his own movies. In its approach it remind me as well of his later pet project, 'The other side of the wind', that was recently reconstructed. Thank you for uploading.

[@phdtobe]

LOVE this movie! It is utterly BRILLIANT!

[@ThePiratemachine]

It is.

[@strangevisions5162]

this movie is complete garbage

[@sclogse1]

The scenes with Akim Tamiroff are great. They seem to be out of a different movie..almost a Samuel Beckett quality... He's so good he's worth the trip. He's got some old school tricks. Two bad Akim never wrote about his work with Orson. Three films...

[@martynhanson]

Don't forget Don Quixote.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

One of the funniest bits of dialog ever committed to film: the two agents of the Politzei speaking over each other in a wave of babble, and finishing with the word, "murder." Genius!

[@doncorleone13]

Great film Tnks CCC 👊🔥

[@laerciofarias1271]

Amigo ! Esse é um filme clássico do Orson Wells 👏😍

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

I've watched Mr. Arkadin several times and don't remember seeing the scene with the heroin addict before...

[@strangevisions5162]

you have amnesia

[@psidvicious]

Very strange movie. I was hoping there would be a final scene that would tie everything together and make sense of it all, but it never happened. Welles did a much more coherent (and only 30 minutes) version of this in the radio show, The Adventures of Harry Lime (The 3rd Man). Welles played Harry, who was the main character, instead of Van Stratten.

[@diegoandres2906]

The End is amazing!

[@mishrakaushik1]

35:50 when Arkadin narrates the story of scorpion and frog, everybody would be compelled to think he is the frog, nobody can imagine he may well be a scorpion, somebody capable of harming himself.

[@uslines]

One of my favorite moments in the film.

[@saveriocorti1972]

masterpiece

[@mishrakaushik1]

41:41 what is the flea maker doing. I have never seen heard or imagined anything like this.????

[@michaelschmichael3973]

It’s a ‘flea-circus’ a kind of vaudeville stage act where fleas perform tricks, drag tiny buggies, kick footballs….pretty cool OW found a way to get that into the film.

[@sclogse1]

@@michaelschmichael3973 We have a science playground in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Or is it now at the Embarcadero.. The Exploratorium. They had a real flea circus there many years ago. I was amazed.

[@Songwriter376]

Have to remember to watch.

[@strangevisions5162]

you'll probably develop amnesia and forget you watched it

[@Farhad.A.M]

Subtitle Persian films classic very very goooooood👍👏🙏❤thanks

[@drlobomalo]

When I was very young I saw a version of this film with the Spanish Catholic Easter hooded procession. This doesn't seem to be a version with that footage. "A capirote[1] is a Catholic pointed hat of conical form that is used in Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents. It is part of the uniform of such brotherhoods including the Nazarenos and Fariseos during Easter observances and reenactments in some areas during Holy Week in Spain and its former colonies, though similar hoods are common in other Christian countries such as Italy. Capirote are worn by penitents so that attention is not drawn towards themselves as they repent, but instead to God. "

[@sclogse1]

There's the procession...right around 17:09. How'd you miss it?

[@ricardocantoral7672]

This is an interesting curiosity. Nothing special if you are already familiar with Welles' best but still worth checking out.

[@mahmooad8798]

فلم ممتع جدا شكرا لك ❤❤

[@barrykochverts4149]

Do I catch a bit toward the end of the overture that might have inspired some themes by Nino Rota in the Godfather Saga?

[@gregorylightcatcher1058]

yes, like Nino Rota.

[@GMoneyChuck89]

Whew, the ADR is rough in this movie. But it gives it an almost Radio Play kind of quality to it.

[@strangevisions5162]

@GMoneyChuck89 "Whew, the ADR is rough in this movie." why use an obscure acronym if you want anyone to know WTF you are talking about? What a DB you are!

[@GMoneyChuck89]

@@strangevisions5162 Or, you could look it up and learn something new today. It's a great opportunity.

[@sclogse1]

That's true in a few of his films. Welles overdubbed his Falstaff and The Trial, and Othello.

[@eerievon2208]

thx for the upload… love this movie… somehow it’s definitely very kafkaesque…. orson must hv influenced by franz kafka’s the trial or the castle during this time… btw could u upload his version of ‘the trial’ (anthony perkins)..? love that movie.. i think it’s one of orson’s best movie… i had it on vhs bt don’t hv a bluray or dvd copy of it… 😅😅

[@sclogse1]

The scenes with Akim give it that Kafka Eastern Block quality. He's almost out of another movie.

[@eerievon2208]

@@sclogse1 yup true… btw criterion collection is releasing ‘the trial’ on bluray this september… so excited.. 😁😁

[@diegoandres2906]

Patricia Medina is a great actress

[@johnrudy9404]

Welles trying to recapture both CK and 3rd Man, Touch of E. Dutch angles Shadows, dialogue same. No patience now...maybe later.

[@sclogse1]

Carol Reed filmed The Third man, and you can see his dutch angles in Our Man In Havana, now on youtube.

[@c.a.savage5689]

The interiors of the yacht scene with Patricia Medina have aged badly. Over acting coupled with bad dialogue and motion sickness. Ugh.

[@nohisocitutampoc2789]

Obra mestra.

[@strangevisions5162]

Cobra Kai

[@patsirianni7984]

Wells was true artist

[@peteriuliano5846]

LOVE Me Some WELLES: But What If Mr. Zouk In Scene One (and he kinda looked that way to me when the first shot presented him - WAS Deceased? And The Conversation Which Took Place Was Between One Living and One Dead Man Because The Main Character Could Hear His Response...now that's silly...

[@strangevisions5162]

what if he was a time traveling transsexual ventriloquist? now that would tie everything together!

[@mishrakaushik1]

Watching this movie is like going to a festival.

[@ThePiratemachine]

It's a carnival.

[@strangevisions5162]

like Fyre Festival

[@gloriarojogomezllanos9257]

Why are the subtitles so small. I can hardly read them.

[@eshebang]

Serious flamenco starts at 26:03, not sure the palo, maybe soleares. Aficionados out there, please correct if wrong.

[@c.a.savage5689]

I thought it was Fado. Portuguese, non?

[@eshebang]

@@c.a.savage5689 sorry no it is not Fado that is certain.

[@mishrakaushik1]

Cornball a new addition to my vocab

[@strangevisions5162]

like Eskimos and snow, you seem to have a million words for Balls

[@sclogse1]

Yeah, a pulp kinda guy. I have a friend how tires to toss a little "action" into his scene..it never quite fits the moment. That's cause he's always hustling.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

Eu cheguei a fazer um comentário, mas pelo jeito parece que foi deletado. O fato é que o procurei tentando me lembrar do que dissera, e não o encontrei! Mas não tem importância, era apenas o comentário de um espectador. Bem sei que WELLES é parte dos grandes cineastas mas com uma obra pequena devido às dificuldades de financiamento e ao seu temperamento avesso aos interesses comerciais da grande indústria. Então, talvez se possa dizer que Mr. Arcádia é um pouco o resultado desse conflito. Procurando popularizar sua temática do personagem "biger than life" falhou. Etc., etc....

[@helenpoornima5126]

Sea captain 👸❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheMrmojo23]

3am is my favorite porn film now I found out Welles edited it

[@valentinopassoni1510]

Ordini Genio

[@Robbi496]

Orson did not like the movie, I guess because it was not exactly as he envisioned??

[@randall8379]

won't play for me

[@mishrakaushik1]

Lets drink to character

[@MediaWest]

by the way, as a post house in hollywood, this is a good transfer. i've seen worse... original aspect is important.

[@c.a.savage5689]

I suppose I'm glad to have seen it, as l admire the films of Orson Welles. Not his best. Interesting in parts, but doesn't hold together. At least, not for me. Thank you for posting.

[@prof.heinous191]

Orson Wells>

[@c.a.savage5689]

...going around in circles apparently.

[@francisestrada]

Falta la escena del brindis por la amistad

[@zyral.f.6938]

Another Welles film. The studio cocked up, scenes missing, different order than UK release.

[@briangriffin4515]

Welles was unsure of his own existence. (Hence all the manic activity: see David Thompson, ROSEBUD, and Josh Cohen's NOT WORKING). Here, finally deprived of relationship to anyone, Arkadin actually ceases to exist. That's how I prefer to see it anyway. This is a typically fascinating movie, constantly verging on self-parody, but still uniquely Welles.

[@DMBall]

A lot of elements of "Citizen Kane" are re-used here. Basically it's the same kind of search for the real person behind a famous and powerful image. But without the resources he enjoyed at RKO, and a coherent script, Welles doesn't come close to achieving the same impact.

[@sclogse1]

My favorite scene is on the boat with all those people at the party. Welles achieves a unique quality with that crowd that's genius. I never forgot it. It's really the best part of the movie.

[@strangevisions5162]

17:13 They are all going to see Iron Maiden...I forget which tour...Number of the something tour.

[@sclogse1]

Sorry, that bus is busy running over a number of fake electors and lawyers...

[@veryimportantperson3657]

This was a strange one. Definitely worth seeing, because it was an Orson Welles film, but clearly not his best. I found some of the plot a little too jumpy--not enough exposition for my taste--and much of the relationships and indeed the overall acting a little too forced. I'm no expert but it seems like it has the bones of a great film but maybe needed some more rewrites and more effort put into directing--the directing here seems a bit slap-dash to me. The crazy camera angles are over-the-top melodramatic, and the actors could have used a few more takes to achieve emotional realism. Also, I just don't think Welles was able to pull off "menacing evil" in the way he wanted--it comes off a bit cartoonish. Someone like Javier Bardem could pull this sort of project off. People mock movie remakes, but I think a remake of this film could be wonderful. All this isn't to say I don't appreciate this channel posting this film--it's wonderful to have free, easy access to an old film like this. Thank you!

[@bedstuyrover]

Welles's performance was fine but the fellow doing the investigating was frightfully awful.the comic bit with the old man towards the end seemed out of place but it was an interesting tale,

[@charliewest1221]

@@bedstuyrover Agreed.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@bedstuyrover I think Robert Arden was well cast and good.

[@mesolithicman164]

Even 'bad' Welles is always interesting. I think the hotch-potch way he was living and working contributed to these films being, shall we say 'uneven', some scenes improvised, others acted with actors who never met. Less than ideal. But all his films, ultimately, are about him and that's the fun.

[@c.a.savage5689]

​@@ThePiratemachine Sorry but l really can't agree. He comes across as unsympathetic, blustering and somewhat vulgar. And worse, not very believeable.

[@margaridanunes4106]

CADÊ A TRADUTOR?

[@johnpritchard5410]

what a mess...

[@whaleshrimp111]

Almost an interesting flick but not quite.

[@arturofernandez839]

Grant Wells

[@johnrudy9404]

Everyone shouting lines. The lead, trying to sound American...by shouting. I left and came back. May leave again.

[@charliewest1221]

Absolutely!

[@ThePiratemachine]

Robert Arden's mother was English and his father American.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@charliewest1221 Oh, you just don't get it. It's not for you. Doesn't matter. Each to his own.

[@strangevisions5162]

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?

[@robertmier2217]

Tasty

[@georgedog100]

Well , I'm only 3/4 of the way through, and I had to stop. What the hell is going on here. There is some typical Orson Well's "stuff" here. Strange camera angles, Facial close ups, Wells staring down at the camera, crowd scenes, carnival faces, strange over the top characters, fierce make up, more strange names than anyone can remember .etc. Add to that very poor editing,.......................well that's enough, I'll watch the rest tomorrow, with my summing up. Eric in Australia.

[@ibdalia69]

Yup, touch 'ugly , another AU.

[@charliewest1221]

It's garbage. Suffered through 1 hour and 39 minutes.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Helps to have a surrealistic imagination.

[@sclogse1]

My favorite sequence is with all those people at the party. Welles achieves something amazing the way he controls it. It's worthy of a few paragraphs...

[@c.a.savage5689]

​@@ThePiratemachineThere are certainly parts that are pure genius (the 2 spies/coppers are 1:11, for example) but the film is hollow at the center. There is nothing to hold the viewers interest, beyond Welles directorial sleight of hand camera work. Do you really care who Mr Arkadin is ? I don't.

[@howlinhonky]

Is there a worse performance in film history than Robert Arden in this movie? Patricia Medina and Paola Mori are pretty bad, too.

[@charliewest1221]

Arden was pure garbage.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Funny - I think the 3 of them are excellent.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@charliewest1221 Arden was terrific in it.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Yes, it's really too bad. He's trying so hard to be the tough guy, without the smarts, charm or rueful irony. In his defense, Arden may have been badly directed.

[@andywinger4197]

The opening scenes, first 8 minutes, were not well done. It was really difficult to see what was happening. I watched for another 12 minutes. The movie didn't grab me for some reason.

[@johnpritchard5410]

the kneecap school of cinematography...

[@sclogse1]

Great way to isolate your subject. I made a short film noir and just intuitively found myself shooting up at my people. It was right for those shots.

[@jeanwilliquet4035]

Boring

[@ThePiratemachine]

Inspiring.

[@carlosalbertodeazevedo817]

Legendas muito rápidas... Muito ruim.

[@direwolf6234]

too incoherent .. bounces around like a travelogue with no purpose .. may have been innovative for its time but didn't age well ...

[@clifftrewin1505]

what a profoundly stupid picture. what was the big secret that everyone died for?

[@ThePiratemachine]

It's just not for you.

[@strangevisions5162]

what a giant mess this movie is. and pretty much everyone in the movie is unlikable.

[@78recorddude]

Sorry, this thing is unwatchable to me, lousy picture quality, stilted acting, annoying dialogue, a silly storyline, and an unbearably self-indulgent vibe. I forced myself to sit through the first hour and then couldn’t take another second of it.

[@charliewest1221]

Agreed 100s.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Funny how tastes differ.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@charliewest1221Disagree 100%

[@garygone5234]

What an annoying little movie. 🙄

[@charliewest1221]

Yes. Utter bosh.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Intriguing big film.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@charliewest1221 Maybe you just can't see it.