Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Directed by Orson Welles
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
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His customary dress is a silver bowling jacket on the back of which is a large scorpion, a reference, as someone mentions, to the fable related by Orson Welles's devious protagonist in Confidential Report (aka Mr Arkadin).
Here, Stone spins a variation on the scorpion and the frog story famously re-told by Welles in Confidential Report.