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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Orson Welles |
| Stars: |
Joseph Cotten |
| Actors: |
Ray Collins |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Character Study · Politics · Reporters · Big Business · Achievers · Rags To Riches · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS: 50th Anniversary Edition |
| UPC: |
053939656527 |
| Release Date: |
1941 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 0min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Gold Edition Box Set; Includes RKO 281
Release Company: Creative Design Art (November 19, 2002)
UPC: 663286201525 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 59min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (September 25, 2001)
UPC: 053939656534 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Orson Welles |
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Professional Reviews
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(07/23/1998, p.C18, Kevin Thomas): "...A tour de force of style and an ultimately tragic epic of a quintessentially American captain of industry, it is timelessly brilliant and incisive..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Rosebud."--the dying word of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)
"I am, have been, and will always be only one thing--an American."--Kane
"It'll probably turn out to be a very simple thing."--Mr. Rawlston (Philip Van Zandt), referring to Rosebud
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper!"--Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris)
"You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war."--Kane
"I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in...sixty years."--Kane to Thatcher
"I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."--Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane) to Jerry Thompson (William Alland) |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 castle-like 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... |
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