Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles' timeless masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's 1998 list of Best American Movies) is more than a groundbreaking film. Presented here in a magnificent 60th anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from the highest quality surviving elements [Disc One], it is also grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and superbly directed with inspired visual flair. Depicting the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award? winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity - the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."

"A two-hour tornado of a documentary" (Time) nominated for the 1995 Best Documentary Oscar?, The Battle Over Citizen Kane [Disc Two] chronicles the titanic clash between Welles, RKO Studios and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, whose life and accomplishments reportedly inspired Citizen Kane.

Production Year: 
1941
Released: 
Tue, 09/25/2001
Run Time Minutes: 
119
Rating: 
PG
Genres: 
Drama
Trailer: 
No
Format Aspect Ratio: 
4x3-Full Screen
Resolution: 
480x720 LowRez
More Information: 
HD-1
Audio Language: 
English
Audio Format: 
Dolby Digital
Audio Channels: 
Mono
Actors: 
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland/Newsreel Reporter
Actors: 
Dorothy Comingore - Susan Alexander Kane
Actors: 
Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Mary Kane
Actors: 
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Actors: 
Ray Collins - Boss James 'Jim' W. Gettys
Actors: 
Erskine Sanford - Herbert Carter/Newsreel Reporter
Actors: 
Everett Sloane - Mr. Bernstein
Actors: 
William Alland - Jerry Thompson/"News on the March"
Actors: 
Paul Stewart - Raymond, Kane's Butler
Actors: 
George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher
Actors: 
Fortunio Bonanova - Signor Matiste, Susan's Opera Coach
Actors: 
Gus Schilling - The Headwaiter
Actors: 
Philip Van Zandt - Mr. Rawlston
Actors: 
Georgia Backus - Miss Bertha Anderson
Actors: 
Harry Shannon - Kane's Father
Actors: 
Sonny Bupp - Charles Foster Kane
Actors: 
Buddy Swan - Kane, age eight
Actors: 
Orson Welles - Charles Foster Kane
Actors: 
Loretta Agar - Dancing Girl
Actors: 
Richard Baer - Hillman
Actors: 
Charles Bennett - Entertainer
Actors: 
Joan Blair - Georgia
Actors: 
Edmund Cobb - Inquirer Reporter
Actors: 
Eddie Coke - Reporter
Actors: 
Gino Corrado - Gino, waiter at Club El Rancho (unc
Actors: 
Herbert Corthell - City Editor
Actors: 
Thomas A. Curran - Teddy Roosevelt
Actors: 
Louise Currie - Reporter at Xanadu
Actors: 
Jack Curtis - Boss printer
Actors: 
Tim Davis - Copy boy
Actors: 
John Dilson - Ward Heeler
Actors: 
Robert Dudley - Photographer
Actors: 
Al Eben - Solly
Actors: 
Edith Evanson - Leland's Nurse
Actors: 
Jean Forward - Opera Singer
Actors: 
Olin Francis - Expressman
Actors: 
Al Frazier - Gorilla man
Actors: 
Captain Garcia - General
Actors: 
Peter Gowland - Guest
Actors: 
Lew Harvey - Newspaper man
Actors: 
Edward L. Hemmer - Bit part
Actors: 
Mitchell Ingraham - Politician
Actors: 
Walter James - Ward Heeler
Actors: 
Arthur Kay - Orchestra Leader
Actors: 
Milton Kibbee - Reporter at Wedding
Actors: 
Alan Ladd - Reporter smoking pipe in the screen
Actors: 
Carmen Laroux - Bit part
Actors: 
Ellen Lowe - Miss Townsend, Inquirer Society Edi
Actors: 
Buck Mack - Man
Actors: 
James Mack - Prompter
Actors: 
Herman J. Mankiewicz - Newspaperman
Actors: 
Joe Manz - Jennings
Actors: 
Major McBride - Shadowgraph man
Actors: 
Charles Meakin - Civic leader
Actors: 
Irving Mitchell - Dr. Corey
Actors: 
Philip Morris - Politician
Actors: 
Jack Morton - Buter
Actors: 
Louis Natheaux - Reporter
Actors: 
Frances E. Neal - Ethel
Actors: 
George Noisom - Copy boy
Actors: 
Joseph North - Male secretary
Actors: 
William O'Brien - Male secretary
Actors: 
Arthur O'Connell - Reporter
Actors: 
Edward Peil Jr. - Civic leader
Actors: 
Thomas Pogue
Actors: 
Jack Raymond - Stagehand
Actors: 
Guy Repp - Reporter
Actors: 
Benny Rubin - Smather
Actors: 
Shimen Ruskin - Hireling
Actors: 
Walter Sande - Reporter at Xanadu
Actors: 
Francis Sayles - Politician
Actors: 
George Sherwood - Hireling
Actors: 
Bruce Sidney - Newsman
Actors: 
Landers Stevens - Investigator
Actors: 
Karl Thomas - Jetsam
Actors: 
Gregg Toland - Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel (uncre
Actors: 
Kathryn Trosper - Reporter at Xanadu
Actors: 
Glen Turnbull - Flotsam
Actors: 
Gohr Van Vleck - Stagehand
Actors: 
Harry J. Vejar - Portugese laborer
Actors: 
Patrick Whitney - Reporter
Actors: 
Tudor Williams - Chorus Master
Actors: 
Richard Wilson - Reporter
Actors: 
Arthur Yeoman - Speaker