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The Battle Over Citizen Kane(1996)

NRJanuary 29, 19961h 48m

Documentary TV Movie

74%User score 74 percent

User Score

29 votes

Overview

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also acts as a relatively complete biograph of Hearst's career.

Director: Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
Writers: Thomas Lennon, Richard Ben Cramer

Top Billed Cast

William Alland
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Marion Davies
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self

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Richard France

Self

Norman Lloyd

Self

Ruth Warrick

Self

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Robert Wise

Self

David McCullough

Self - Host of The American Experience

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

Thomas Anderson

Self

Jimmy Breslin

Self

Leonard de Paur

Self

William Randolph Hearst

Self (archive footage)

William Herz

Self

Sam Leve

Self

Nancy Loe

Self

Frank Mankiewicz

Self

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Original language: English
Production: GBH

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