The Battle Over Citizen Kane

The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a 1996 documentary about the clash between newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and actorwriterdirector Orson Welles over Welless 1941 motion picture Citizen Kane, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.

In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearsts. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welless own life were used in creating Kane.In 1939, based partly on the strength of his imaginative and successful New York plays which were produced under the aegis of the Mercury Theatre such as an adaptation of William Shakespeares Macbeth, which featured an allblack cast and was set in the jungle, and the infamy of his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds which sent residents of Grovers Mill, New Jersey into a panic, Orson Welles was able to negotiate a virtually unheardof twopicture deal with RKO Pictures, the smallest of the big five major studios in this era. The deal gave him creative control under a budget limit. ........

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