Citizen Kane / RKO Radio Pictures ; a Mercury production ; director/producer, Orson Welles ; screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles.



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Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: Sept. 25, 2001. Orignally produced as a motion picture in 1941. Special features: [disc 1.] Two full-length audio commentaries, one by Peter Bogdonovich and the other by 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.] interviews with Orson Welles, the stars of the movie and other associates of Welles and Hearst; biographical portraits of Wellesand Hearst. Academy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles) MPAA rating: PG. IMDA: PG. . Photography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane. Subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Closed-captioned.

Title
Citizen Kane / RKO Radio Pictures ; a Mercury production ; director/producer, Orson Welles ; screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles.
Artist
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
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English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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Abstract
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. Prominent publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
Year
2001
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