Notes: | Title from container. "The Corinth version" originally released as a motion picture in 1955; "Confidential report" originally released as a motion picture in 1955; "The comprehensive version" originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: Contains three versions of the film; Audio commentary by scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore; Interviews with Orson Welles biographer Simon Callow, star Robert Arden, radio producer Harry Alan Towers, director Peter Bogdanovich, and film archivists Stephan Droessler and Claude Bertemes; Three half-hour episodes of the radio program "The lives of Harry Lime", upon which the film is based; Outtakes, rushes, and alternate scenes from the film; Extensive stills gallery; Plus: 'Mr. Arkadin', the novel, with a new preface by Robert Polito, and a booklet featuring J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, historian François Thomas, and Droessler on the three versions; and a time line of 'Arkadin'-related events. Photography, Jean Bourgoin ; editor, Henzo Lucien ; music, Paul Misraki. Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Akim Tamiroff, Mischa Auer, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling. DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC. Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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