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A battle over the film was inevitable from the start. The film, released when Welles was 26, was a fictionalized biography of one of the most powerful newspaper publishers in the country, William Randolph Hearst. And once Hearst learned the film's subject, he wasn't about to sit still. When that didn't work he wielded his immense power, money and influence to make sure that audiences didn't see the film. He even had Hollywood columnists in his employ attack Welles in print.