Orson Welles
France,
1955
Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a Cold War European landscape. The film’s history is also marked by this vertigo. There are at least eight _Mr. Arkadin_s: three radio plays, a novel, several long-lost cuts, and the controversial European release known as Confidential Report.