Citizen Kane

Resource Information

The work Citizen Kane represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lewisville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Citizen Kane

Statement of responsibility

an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; Orson Welles, direction-production

Creator

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Contributor

• Cunningham, Liam
• Epstein, Michael, (Film director)
• Griffith, Melanie, 1957-
• Hille, Anastasia
• Lennon, Thomas, 1970-
• Logan, John, 1961-
• Malkovich, John
• Mankiewicz, Herman J., (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953
• Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974
• Ross, Benjamin, 1964-
• Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969
• Scheider, Roy
• Schreiber, Liev
• Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965
• Stewart, Paul, 1908-1986
• Suchet, David
• Warrick, Ruth
• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
• Shaw, Fiona, 1958-
• BBC Films
• HBO Pictures
• Lennon Documentary Group
• Mercury Theatre
• RKO Radio Pictures
• Scott Free Productions
• Turner Entertainment Co
• WGBH (Firm)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Alland, William, 1916-1997
• Armstrong, Su
• Blethyn, Brenda, 1946-
• Collins, Ray, 1889-1965
• Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971
• Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
• Coulouris, George, 1903-1989
• Cramer, Richard Ben
• Cromwell, James

Subject

• Mass media and public opinion -- United States -- Drama
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States -- Drama
• Newspaper publishing -- United States -- Drama
• Older men -- United States -- Psychology -- Drama
• Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Drama
• Rich people -- United States -- Biography | Drama
• Successful people -- United States -- Psychology -- Drama
• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 -- Drama
• Businessmen -- United States -- Biography | Drama
• Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
• Citizen Kane (Motion picture) -- Drama
• Executives -- United States -- Biography | Drama

Genre

• Biography
• Drama

Language

eng

Summary

Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner is rooted in themes of power, corruption, and vanity: the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word, 'Rosebud'

Related

• RKO 281
• Battle over Citizen Kane

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photography, Gregg Toland ; editing, Robert Wise ; music, Bernard Herrmann

Intended audience

MPAA Rating: PG

Language note

English dialogue; English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Russian or Hungarian subtitles

PerformerNote

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris

Runtime

320

Technique

live action