The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Michael Epstein
1996-01-29


7.3
108 min

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also acts as a relatively complete biograph of Hearst's career.

Cast

Name Character Team
Richard Ben Cramer Narrator (voice) Unowned
William Alland Self Unowned
Thomas Anderson Self Unowned
Peter Bogdanovich Self Unowned
Jimmy Breslin Self Unowned
Marion Davies Self (archive footage) Unowned
Leonard de Paur Self Unowned
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Self Unowned
Richard France Self Unowned
William Randolph Hearst Self (archive footage) Unowned
William Herz Self Unowned
Sam Leve Self Unowned
Norman Lloyd Self Unowned
Nancy Loe Self Unowned
Frank Mankiewicz Self Unowned
Ruth Warrick Self Unowned
Orson Welles Self (archive footage) Unowned
Vern Whaley Self Unowned
Robert Wise Self Unowned
David McCullough Self - Host of The American Experience Unowned