The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
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Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the real life press baron William Randolph Hearst upon whom Kane is based, and his efforts to halt the film, destroy the negative and persecution of people involved with its production and showing. It includes BBC interviews with Welles made in 1960 and 1982, and film historian Robert Carringer looks at the scenes that never made it to the screen. American film critic Pauline Kael also analyses the film's enduring appeal. Extracts from "The RKO Story" (producer: Rosemary Wilton) and "Yesterday's Whitness" (producers: Christopher Cook and Stephen Peet).
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Leslie Megahey
Narrator
Jill Evans
Narrator
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Charles Chabot
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
William Alland
Self
Known for
Citizen Kane
Macbeth
Micheál MacLiammóir
Micheál MacLiammóir
Christopher Swayne
Anita Loos
Self (archive footage)
Also in
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Miriam Geiger
Miriam Geiger
William Randolph Hearst
Self (archive footage)
Robert Carringer
Robert Carringer
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Self
Also in
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
First release October 13, 1991 · Produced in United Kingdom
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BBC
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 13, 1991
TV · BBC TWO
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