Citizen Kane [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; original screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; Orson Welles, direction-production.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Edition:
70th anniversary ed.
Publisher:
Turner Entertainment Co.and Warner Bros. EntertainmentInc. :
Citizen Kane: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Buddy Swan, Orson Welles. Battle over Citizen Kane: host, David McCullough ; narrated by Richard Ben Cramer. Citizen Kane originally released as a motion picture in 1941. The battle over Citizen Kane originally broadcast as an episode of the American experience in 1996. Special features: Separate commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich; interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise; premiere newsreel; stills gallery.
Summary:
Citizen Kane (1941, 119 min.): Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner is rooted in themes of power, corruption, and vanity: the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word, 'Rosebud'. Battle over Citizen Kane (1996, 113 min.): Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tries to suppress the 1941 film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.
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