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Citizen Kane [videorecording] / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: T6565 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Summary language: freporspa Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2001.Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780635205
Uniform titles:
  • Citizen Kane (Motion picture).
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- disc 2. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced & directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Thomas Lennon & Richard Ben Cramer (2 hrs.).
Production credits:
  • Photography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann.
Awards:
  • Academy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.Summary: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA Citizen Available 33111005834318
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An American tragedy of a newspaper tycoon, from his humble beginnings to the solitude of his final years. Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director. Bonus features include commentary by Roger Ebert.

Citizen Kane originally produced as a motion picture in 1941 ; The battle over Citizen Kane originally produced for television broadcast in 1996 by WGBH Educational Foundation.

Special features: [Disc 1] Two full-length audio commentaries, one by Peter Bogdonovich and the other by Roger Ebert ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaigns, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia ; original theatrical trailer. [Disc 2] Welles filmography.

Disc 1. Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- disc 2. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced & directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Thomas Lennon & Richard Ben Cramer (2 hrs.).

Photography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann.

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.

An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD.

English language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)

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