Citizen Kane / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoBurbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2001.
Description2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorWelles, Orson, 1915-1985.
Other author/creatorMankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953.
Other author/creatorCotten, Joseph, 1905-1994.
Other author/creatorComingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971.
Other author/creatorMoorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974
Other author/creatorSloane, Everett, 1909-1965.
Other author/creatorHerrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975.
Other author/creatorLennon, Thomas, 1970-
Other author/creatorEpstein, Michael.
Other author/creatorCramer, Richard Ben.
Other author/creatorRKO Radio Pictures.
Other author/creatorMercury Productions.
Other author/creatorWGBH Educational Foundation.
Other author/creatorWarner Home Video (Firm)
Uniform titleCitizen Kane (Motion picture)
Contents 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.)
Abstract 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.
General noteCitizen 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.
General noteSpecial 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.
CreditsPhotography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann.
Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris.
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
Technical detailsDVD.
LanguageEnglish language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Awards noteAcademy Award, 1942: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)
Other titleBattle over Citizen Kane.
ISBN0780635205
UPC 053939656527
Publisher numberT6565 Warner Home Video