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RKO 281 (1999)
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Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst. Director:Benjamin RossWriters:John Logan, Richard Ben Cramer (documentary "The Battle Over Citizen Kane") (in part), and 1 more credit » |
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Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed. Written by Greg Bulmash <greg@imdb.com>
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Orson Welles | Hollywood | William Randolph Hearst | Film Studio | Millionaire | See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane See more »Box Office
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Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.
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In the shot of Orson cutting the Citizen Kane script, one of Kane's lines is "Who knows what lurks in the hearts of evil men? The Shadow knows!" This was the classic introduction played at the beginning of every episode of Welles' famous radio program, "The Shadow". See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: Just before Welles throws the drink in Mank's face and he falls into the pond, the camera angle changes, and Mank's shirt switches from neatly pressed to severely wrinkled, showing that he had already fallen into the pond in previous takes. See more »Quotes
Orson Welles: I expected better of you, Mank.Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.
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