Mr. Arkadin
“Discovering the past can be murder...”
Orson WellesCast
Orson Welles Robert Arden Paola Mori 
Michael Redgrave 
Akim Tamiroff
Credits
Written by: Orson Welles
Plot
A small-time smuggler is hired by a mysterious billionaire to investigate the past that the billionaire claims to have forgotten. It is also known as Confidential Report.
Sinekatalog’s take
Orson Welles's tangled thriller sends a smuggler to investigate a billionaire's forgotten past. Flawed and fragmentary, with baroque camerawork and a cast of oddballs, it is a fascinating, uneven noir.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (10,237 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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