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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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Title: The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Release Date: 29 Jan 1996

Runtime: 1h 48m

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie

Director: GBH

Production Companies: GBH

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.3 (27 votes)

Cast

  • Narrator (voice): Richard Ben Cramer
  • Self: William Alland
  • Self: Thomas Anderson
  • Self: Peter Bogdanovich
  • Self: Jimmy Breslin
  • Self (archive footage): Marion Davies
  • Self: Leonard de Paur
  • Self: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
  • Self: Richard France
  • Self (archive footage): William Randolph Hearst
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