Citizen Kane : 70th anniversary / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production ; by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; Orson Welles, direction-production.
American experience (Television program) Battle over Citizen Kane. RKO 281.
Notes:
At head of title: Orson Welles. Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris. The battle over Citizen Kane: Narrator, Richard Ben Cramer. RKO 281: Liev Schrieber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Liam Cunningham, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, Anastasia Hille, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider. Citizen Kane was originally released as motion picture in 1941. The battle over Citizen Kane was originally broadcast as a television episode of American experience in 1996. RKO-281 was originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 1999. Souvenir booklet includes a collection of miniature movie posters and a reproduction souvenir program. RKO 281 based in part on the documentary The battle over Citizen Kane, from The American experience, directed by Benjamin Ross.
Contents:
Citizen Kane / produced and directed by Orson Welles ; original screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles -- The battle over Citizen Kane / produced and directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Thomas Lennon & Richard Ben Cramer -- RKO 281 / produced by Su Armstrong ; directed by Benjamin Ross ; written by John Logan.
Summary:
In Citizen Kane, following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. In RKO-281, Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
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