The Battle Over Citizen Kane
S8 E7 January 29, 1996 0h 55m
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Overview
A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie created a buzz long before it was released. Most people thought it the work of a genius, but Hearst set out to destroy the director, Orson Welles, and suppress the movie. Just a year earlier Welles had terrorized the east coast with a radio broadcast simulating an alien invasion. But now the 24-year-old boy-genius had taken on one of the most powerful men in America.
Guest Stars
Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Norman Lloyd
Self
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Powell
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)