DocumentaryTV Movie

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

1996

108 min

7.3

73.0%

User Score

(28 votes)

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.

DIRECTED BY

Thomas Lennon

STARRING

Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Breslin

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Cast

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

William Alland

Self

Thomas Anderson

Self

Peter Bogdanovich

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Jimmy Breslin

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Marion Davies

Self (archive footage)

Leonard de Paur

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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Richard France

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William Randolph Hearst

Self (archive footage)

William Herz

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Sam Leve

Self

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