The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)
4.0 of 5 from 45 ratings
2h 0min
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- Synopsis:
- A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, the movie created a buzz long before it was released. Most people thought it the work of a genius, but Hearst set out to destroy the director, Orson Welles, and suppress the movie. Just a year earlier Welles had terrorized the east coast with a radio broadcast simulating an alien invasion. But now the 24-year-old boy-genius had taken on one of the most powerful men in America.
- Actors:
- William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Breslin, Marion Davies, Leonard de Paur, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard France, William Randolph Hearst, William Herz, Sam Leve, Norman Lloyd, Nancy Loe, Frank Mankiewicz, David Nasaw, Louetta Santucci, John Tebbel, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Vern Whaley
- Directors:
- Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon
- Narrated By:
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Writers:
- Richard Ben Cramer, Thomas Lennon
- Others:
- Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
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