Mr. Arkadin

Rating:
Summary: Poor quality ruins the experience
Review: Welles gathered up his own money to make this, something of a European "Citizen Kane." It's an overblown mess, due probably to the fact that the distributor pulled it out of Welles' hands and butchered it.
Robert Arden plays Guy Van Stratten, a man hired by Mr. Arkadin (Welles, sporting heavy makeup and an awful performance) to dig up some info about his past (Arkadin is suffering from amnesia, you see). However, when Van Stratten goes out to interview people, they all turn up dead. SUSPENSE!
The DVD looks exceptionally poor, mastered from terrible source material. But being an independantly financed Welles film, I'll assume there was little better in the way of source material. The distortion of the score is inexscusable, however.
As in most Laserlight 'Special Edition Classics,' a black-gloved Tony Curtis gives an introduction. Here, he rambles on about "Citizen Kane" and mispronounces the title of "Mr. Arkadin." There is also a trailer for "Citizen Kane."