Citizen Kane [videorecording] / RKO Radio Pictures ; a Mercury production ; director/producer, Orson Welles ; screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Richard Ben Cramer & Thomas Lennon ; a Lennon Documentary Group film for the American experience ; WGBH Boston.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Standard format.
Publisher:
Turner Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
c1941
Description:
2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sd., b&w, col. with b & w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Rated PG. Title from disc surface. Feature film: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941. Documentary: Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series the American experience in 1996. Special features: Feature film: interactive menus ; scene selection ; theatrical trailer ; production notes ; filmmaker postscripts and awards data ; two feature-length audio commentaries ; one by Roger Ebert ; the other by Peter Bogdanovich ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards ; rare photos ; alternative ad campaigns ; studio correspondence ; call sheets, and other memorabilia. Documentary: Welles filmography. Feature film: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane. Documentary ; host and narrator, David McCullough ; narrated by Richard Ben Cramer ; music, Brian Keane. Host and narrator, David McCullough.
Contents:
Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- The battle over Citizen Kane (113 min.).
Summary:
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to surpress the film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.
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