RKO 281 (1999)
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his radio hoax War of the Worlds, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with William Randolph Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. The movie is about an aging newspaper publisher who controlled his enemies as ruthlessly as he controlled his friends; and whose mistress was destined for fame. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
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Also known as:
- (DE) Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-Legende
- (EN) RKO 281
- (ES) RKO 281: la batalla por «Ciudadano Kane»
- (FR) Citizen Welles
- (DE) Die Legende - Der Kampf um Citizen Kane
- (US) RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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Filmmakers
- Benjamin RossDirector
- Su ArmstrongProducer
- Ridley ScottExecutive Producer
- Tony ScottExecutive Producer
- John AltmanOriginal Music Composer
- Mike SouthonDirector of Photography
- Alex MackieEditor
- Maria DjurkovicProduction Design
- Heather StorrScript Supervisor
- Stephen MorleyStill Photographer
- Ali GossCostume Supervisor
- Clive DerbyshireSound Recordist
- Gordon BrownDialogue Editor
- Jonathan CroninADR Editor
- Nick AdamsSupervising Sound Editor
- Paul WrightsonSound Effects Editor
- Mike DowsonSound Re-Recording Mixer
- Mark TaylorSound Re-Recording Mixer
- Steven BeggVisual Effects Supervisor
- Lucinda ThomsonArt Direction
