Citizen Kane
By: an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles
Contributors: Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994; Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971; Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974; Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965; Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975; Lennon, Thomas; Epstein, Michael; Cramer, Richard Ben; RKO Radio Pictures; Mercury Productions; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Series: ART 315 (NU course); MDC 651 (NU course)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Burbank, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Biography; Drama; Newspaper publishing; History; Feature films; Documentary television programs; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
Work titles: Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
Description: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
Notes: Citizen Kane originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.

Title from disc.

Special features:  Two full-length audio commentaries, one by Peter Bogdonovich and the other by Roger Ebert ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaigns, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia ; original theatrical trailer.

Photography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann.

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD.

English language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)