Mr. Arkadin
(1955)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 201 votes
Year: 1955
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: France, Spain
Director: Орсон Уэллс
Cast: Орсон Уэллс, Akim Tamiroff, Grégoire Aslan, Patricia Medina, Jack Watling, Миша Ауэр, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Amparo Rivelles, Frédéric O'Brady
Plot
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.
From the lips of a dying man at a dimly lit Italian dock, Guy Van Stratten, the disreputable American fortune hunter, receives invaluable information about the powerful financial titan, Gregory Arkadin. In high hopes that something good might come out of it, Guy finally approaches the cryptic multi-million tycoon, intent on exploiting him; instead, the ambitious opportunist finds himself mysteriously hired by Mr. Arkadin, to reconstruct the history of his murky past before 1927. However, as the methodical detective scours the globe to put together the dangerously knotty puzzle, people end up dead, gradually closing in on Van Stratten, who now begins to shed light on this murderously difficult assignment. Are those cases linked together? In the end, has the reclusive magnate something to hide?