Citizen Kane [videorecording] / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles.
Contributor(s): Welles, Orson
| Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob) | Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Sloane, Everett | Herrmann, Bernard | Lennon, Thomas | Epstein, Michael | Cramer, Richard Ben | RKO Radio Pictures, inc | Mercury Productions | WGBH Educational Foundation | Warner Home Video (Firm).
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2001Description: 2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 0780635205; 9780780635203.Other title: Battle over Citizen Kane.Subject(s): Citizen Kane (Motion picture) | Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography -- Drama | Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- Drama | Feature films | Films for the hearing impaired | Documentary television programsGenre/Form: Melodrama| Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | AUDIO & DVD Collection | DVD Citiz (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 601308 |
2-disc special edition.
DVD; Dolby digital mono (feature) and stereo (documentary); Region 1.
In English with optional subtitles in French, Portuguese, Spanish (feature) and English (feature and documentary).
Closed-captioned.
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.
Photography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann.
Citizen Kane originally produced as a motion picture in 1941 ; The battle over Citizen Kane originally produced for television broadcast in 1996 by WGBH Educational Foundation.
Disc 1. Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- disc 2. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced & directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Thomas Lennon & Richard Ben Cramer (2 hrs.).
MPAA rating: PG.
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.
Academy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)
Special features: [Disc 1] 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. [Disc 2] Welles filmography.
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