Citizen Kane [DVD] [videorecording] / RKO Radio Pictures ; a Mercury production ; director/producer, Orson Welles ; screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced and directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Richard Ben Cramer & Thomas Lennon ; a Lennon Documentary Group film for the American experience ; WGBH Boston.
Citizen Kane originally produced as a motion picture in 1941 ; The battle over Citizen Kane originally produced in 1996 for television broadcast as part of the PBS series, The American experience, by WGBH Educational Foundation. "Standard version; presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of their original theatrical/television exhibitions. Dual-layer format (disc one)"--container. Special features: [Disc 1] full-length audio commentaries by Peter Bogdanovich and Roger Ebert ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaigns, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia ; original theatrical trailer. [Disc 2] Welles filmography. Shelved in the "Movie Classics" collection. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.
Contents:
Disc 1. Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- Disc 2. The battle over Citizen Kane (113 min.)
Summary:
Citizen Kane: 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. The battle over Citizen Kane: looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and publisher William Randolph Hearst. Hearst saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
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