The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

7.4/10 • 108 min • Documentary TV Movie

Overview

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

William Alland

Peter Bogdanovich

Marion Davies

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Richard France

William Randolph Hearst

Self (archive footage)

Norman Lloyd

Self

Ruth Warrick

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Robert Wise

David McCullough

Self - Host of The American Experience

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