American Experience

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Directed by Michael Epstein
TV-PG
S8 • E7    Jan 28, 1996    55m
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.

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Cast of The Battle Over Citizen Kane

  • Richard Ben CramerNarrator (voice)
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Self
  • Norman LloydSelf
  • Orson WellesSelf (archive footage)
  • Gary CooperSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Myrna LoySelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Dick PowellSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Michael EpsteinDirector
  • Thomas LennonWriter
  • Richard Ben CramerWriter
  • Thomas LennonProducer

 

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