Mr. Arkadin Page #2

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1955
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I was broke.

So when I got out, I had nothin' else to do

but look around and ask questions.

- Arkadin-he had a villa near Monte Carlo...

a castle in Spain,

one of the biggest yachts in the world...

and at least three passports.

But who he really was

and where all that dough came from...

nobody could tell me.

Well, Mily wasn't waiting for me

at the prison gates...

but I traced her down to Juan-les-Pins...

to a nightclub where she

was doing a bubble dance.

- We got paid to let her off for that party.

- Which party?

The party, naturally.

This season a party means just one thing -

Gregory Arkadin.

So Mily'd got next to Arkadin already.

She was a birdbrain,

but at least she had something to go on-

that- that other name

that Bracco whispered to her.

So, you've been to Arkadin's party.

How'd you make out?

Well, there must have been 50 other girls

out there on that boat.

Yeah. I hear he's sailing it

back to Spain.

And next week he's giving

a big society ball.

Why don't you try to get yourself invited?

And then we can -

To a society ball?

- On the yacht, stupid.

- All right.

Look, try and go on that cruise

he's taking.

- All right.

- Then maybe, if you can get close to him,

we can sort of throw that other name at him.

- That's the trouble.

- You forgot it, you mean?

Well, you see,

I - I couldn't hear very well.

Oh.

And right after that,

what's-his-name - Bracco - died.

So I couldn't very well

ask him to repeat it.

Okay. Okay.

- Now, look. You tell Mr. Arkadin -

- Shh.

That you have a friend

who knows somebody named Bracco.

- Mm-hmm.

- Don't use my name.

Oh, Guy, be careful.

You just tell him that if he's interested,

a meeting can be arranged.

Look, it's different for me.

I'm a girl, and he's a man.

- Will you please stop -

- Well, I can handle him!

I hope so!

There must be an opening

for a bright young man...

in some company

that Arkadin happens to control.

Stranger things than that

have happened in big business.

Sure. Come to think of it,

who knows how Mr. Arkadin got started?

Started? I didn't even know

what we were really after.

Some of that Arkadin money,

of course, but how?

Shake him down? What about?

Some name a guy whispered to Mily

that Mily'd forgotten?

I not only knew it was crazy,

but the closest I could even get to Arkadin...

was that yacht of his.

The Raina, it was called,

after his daughter.

She's quite some dame, Raina.

- A real looker.

- With her money, she wouldn't need to be.

No, Arkadin thinks everybody's

after her for his dough.

- And he's wrong about you?

- All I wanted was to use her to get close to him.

That is, at first.

- And now it's love.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (; May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; in radio, the legendary 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds"; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. In his 20s, Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of Macbeth with an entirely African American cast, and the political musical The Cradle Will Rock. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941. Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds performed for his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring. Although some contemporary sources say these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. He struggled for creative control on his projects early on with the major film studios and later in life with a variety of independent financiers, and his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. He has been praised as "the ultimate auteur".Welles followed up Citizen Kane with 12 other feature films, the most acclaimed of which include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958), and Chimes at Midnight (1966). Other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and F for Fake (1973), are also well-regarded. In 2002, Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics. Known for his baritone voice, Welles was an actor in radio and film, a Shakespearean stage actor, and a magician noted for presenting troop variety shows in the war years. more…

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