The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Name: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Released: 1996

1996NR1h 48m

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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
Music: Brian Keane
Cinematography: Michael Chin, Gregory Andracke

Cast

Richard Ben CramerNarrator (voice)
William AllandSelf
Thomas AndersonSelf
Peter BogdanovichSelf
Jimmy BreslinSelf
Marion DaviesSelf (archive footage)
Leonard de PaurSelf
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Self
Richard FranceSelf
William Randolph HearstSelf (archive footage)

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