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Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin (first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain include locations in London, Munich, Paris, the French Riviera, and the Château de Chillon in Switzerland.
Plot.
Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden),
interests.
Origins.
The earliest known publication of this fable in this exact form was in the 1944 book "The Hunter of the Pamirs: A Novel of Adventure in Soviet Central Asia" by Georgi Tushkan. It was made famous by the 1955 film "Mr. Arkadin". In interviews about the film, director Orson Welles remarked, "that scorpion story is Russian in origin".
Origins Precursors.
"The Scorpion and the Tortoise" is a fable that emerged in India. Instead of a frog,