The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

Directors

Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon

Cast

David G. McCullough, Norman Lloyd, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Ben Cramer, Robert Wise, Ruth Warrick, William Randolph Hearst

The story

In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's, as well as Hearst's longtime rival, Joseph Pulitzer. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles's own life were used in creating Kane.

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