The Battle Over Citizen Kane
7.4
29 votes
January 29, 1996
1h 48m
Documentary
TV Movie
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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Cast
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Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice)
William Alland
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Thomas Anderson
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Jimmy Breslin
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Marion Davies
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Leonard de Paur
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Richard France
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William Randolph Hearst
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William Herz
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Sam Leve
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Norman Lloyd
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Nancy Loe
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Frank Mankiewicz
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