“Citizen Kane” is a film loosely based on the life story of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who at the time moved heaven and earth to ban, and even destroy Welles’ project. It consequently did not do well at the box office due to its limited release. It became more widely appreciated in the mid-1950’s as a result of the movie being broadcast on television.
“Citizen Kane” is usually at or near the top of everyone’s list of the best motion pictures of all time, due to Welles’ innovative film structure by narration, new techniques in cinematography, unique use of music for scoring the picture, and more. The brass at RKO Radio Pictures gave producer-director Orson Welles full reign in the film’s production. He co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz.
The cast includes performers from the Mercury Theater, an independent repertory theater company founded in 1937 by Welles and John Houseman. They are Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy newspaper publisher, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warwick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloan, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Philip Van Zandt, and Alan Ladd in a small cameo at the end of the picture.
Citizen Kane (1941)
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My Review
“Citizen Kane” is a film loosely based on the life story of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who at the time moved heaven and earth to ban, and even destroy Welles’ project. It consequently did not do well at the box office due to its limited release. It became more widely appreciated in the mid-1950’s as a result of the movie being broadcast on television.
“Citizen Kane” is usually at or near the top of everyone’s list of the best motion pictures of all time, due to Welles’ innovative film structure by narration, new techniques in cinematography, unique use of music for scoring the picture, and more. The brass at RKO Radio Pictures gave producer-director Orson Welles full reign in the film’s production. He co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz.
The cast includes performers from the Mercury Theater, an independent repertory theater company founded in 1937 by Welles and John Houseman. They are Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy newspaper publisher, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warwick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloan, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Philip Van Zandt, and Alan Ladd in a small cameo at the end of the picture.