Film

The Complete 'Citizen Kane'

1991 · 1h 30m · Documentary

IMDb

8.0

Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the real life press baron William Randolph Hearst upon whom Kane is based, and his efforts to halt the film, destroy the negative and persecution of people involved with its production and showing. It includes BBC interviews with Welles made in 1960 and 1982, and film historian Robert Carringer looks at the scenes that never made it to the screen. American film critic Pauline Kael also analyses the film's enduring appeal. Extracts from "The RKO Story" (producer: Rosemary Wilton) and "Yesterday's Whitness" (producers: Christopher Cook and Stephen Peet).

Leslie Megahey

Narrator

William Alland

"News on the March" narrator

Jill Evans

"Citizen Hearts" narrator

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Anita Loos

Self (archive footage)

William Randolph Hearst

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Marion Davies

Dorothy Comingore

Joseph Cotten

Agnes Moorehead

Pauline Kael

Peter Bogdanovich

• Christopher SwayneProducer
• Charles ChabotProducer
• Leslie MegaheyExecutive Producer

Release date

October 13, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary