The Criterion Collection
The Complete Mr. Arkadin - A.K.A. Confidential Report
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Directed by: Orson Welles
Featuring: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Patricia Medina, Peter Van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Gert Frobe
Year: 1955
Time: 98 | 99 | 105 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 322
Release Date: April 18 2006
MSRP:
$49.95
DVD
3 Discs | DVD-9
1.33:1 ratio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English
Region 1
Three versions of the film: the Corinth Verion, Confidential Report, and a new comprehensive version
An interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow, featuring his audio interview with star Robert Arden
Three half-hour episodes of the radio program The Lives of Harry Lime, upon which the film is based, and an interview with producer Harry Alan Towers
On the Comprehensive Version, a new documentary featuring interviews with film historian Stefan Drössler and Claude Bertemes and Welles confidant Peter Bogdanovich
Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film
Extensive stills gallery
Mr. Arkadin, the novel, with a new preface by Robert Polito
A booklet featuring J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, film historian François Thomas, and Stefan Drössler on the three versions; and a time line of Arkadin-related events