Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the real life press baron William Randolph Hearst upon whom Kane is based, and his efforts to halt the film, destroy the negative and persecution of people involved with its production and showing. It includes BBC interviews with Welles made in 1960 and 1982, and film historian Robert Carringer looks at the scenes that never made it to the screen. American film critic Pauline Kael also analyses the film's enduring appeal. Extracts from "The RKO Story" (producer: Rosemary Wilton) and "Yesterday's Whitness" (producers: Christopher Cook and Stephen Peet).
Leslie Megahey
Narrator
William Alland
"News on the March" narrator
Jill Evans
"Citizen Hearts" narrator
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Anita Loos
Self (archive footage)
William Randolph Hearst
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Marion Davies
Dorothy Comingore
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Public Speaking70%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Voyeur59%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Sherman's March67%
The Making of Star Wars70%
Above Majestic73%
McQueen74%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Night Will Fall76%
Tabloid64%
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter72%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
The Carter Effect70%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
