Ms. ANITA ESTERDAY (Waitress): She told me that they had paid with a credit card and had left a hundred dollartip to be divided up amongst everybody that was working that day.
Acting on a million-dollar tip from a dying man in Naples, Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time international intriguer with a Flatbush accent, tracks down a feared global potentate, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), who hires him to do a sensitive job: to investigate Arkadin himself.