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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score (sound by Bailey Fesler and James G. Stewart, music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann); and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles's Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection. The film is essential viewing, quite possibly the greatest film ever made and, along with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, certainly the most influential.

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ProducerOrson Welles

EAN0044005189421

eBay Product ID (ePID)3947288

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ActorEdith Evanson, Paul Stewart, Alan Ladd, Louise Currie, Harry Shannon, Dorothy Comingore, Milton Kibbee, Herbert Corthell, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Gino Corrado, George Coulouris, William Alland, Benny Rubin, Agnes Moorehead, Georgia Backus, Arthur O'connell, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, Charles Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick, Edmund Cobb, Walter Sande, Orson Welles

Film/TV TitleCitizen Kane

DirectorOrson Welles

LanguageEnglish

Run Time136 Mins

Aspect RatioFull Screen

Release Year1999

FormatDVD

FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, Trailer\Documentary

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1

CertificateU

ComposerBernard Herrmann

Production DesignerPerry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase

ScreenwriterHerman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

Special EffectsVernon L. Walker

Costume DesignerEdward Stevenson

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Sound sourceStereo

EditorMark Robson, Robert Wise

Movie/TV TitleCitizen Kane

Director of PhotographyGregg Toland

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