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Movie Greats: Citizen Kane

on BBC Two England

starring
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten
Welles's feature debut - at the age of 25 - nearly broke
RKO Studios. Now, several decades later, it is regarded as a masterpiece and arguably the single most important landmark in cinema history. Welles discarded and re-created innumerable 'rules' and his presence as actor and director dominates the entire production. Kane's story, told in flashback, shows him as a rich and powerful newspaper magnate whose career is threatened by scandal. 'Here is a man who could have been President, who was as loved and hated and as talked about as any man in our time, but when he comes to die, he's got something on his mind called Rosebud. Now what does that mean?'
Screenplay by ORSON WELLES and HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ Produced and directed by ORSON WELLES
0 FEATURE: page 14 and WODDIS ON: page 81
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Contributors

Play By:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Directed By:
Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane:
Orson Welles
Kane (aged 8):
Buddy Swan
Kane III:
Sonny Bupp
Kane's father:
Harry Shannon
Jedediah Leland:
Joseph Gotten
Susan Alexander:
Dorothy Comingore
Mr Bernstein:
Everett Sloane
James W Gettys:
Ray Collins
Walter Parks Thatcher:
George Coulouris
Kane's mother:
Agnes Moorehead
Raymond:
Paul Stewart
Emily Norton:
Ruth Warrick
Herbert Carter:
Erskine Sanford
Thompson:
William Alland
Miss Anderson:
Georgia Backus

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