The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Name: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Released: 1996-01-29
Duration: 55 min
Cast: Richard Ben Cramer, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Norman Lloyd, Orson Welles, Gary Cooper

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.