RKO 281 (1999)

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Country: UK, USA
Genres: Biography, Drama
Release: 1999-11-20
Director: Benjamin Ross
Writers: John Logan (I) , Richard Ben Cramer , Thomas Lennon
Language: English
Stars: Liev Schreiber , James Cromwell (I) , Melanie Griffith , John Malkovich , Brenda Blethyn , Roy Scheider (1932–2008) , Liam Cunningham , David Suchet , Fiona Shaw , Anastasia Hille
Runtime: 86 min
Awards: Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 15 wins & 28 nominations total
AKA: A Força (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , ザ・ディレクター[市民ケーン]の真実 (Japan) , Πολίτης Κέιν: Το παρασκήνιο (Greece) , Obywatel Welles (Poland) , Die Legende - Der Kampf um Citizen Kane (Germany) , Проект 281 (Russian Federation) , Politis Kane - To paraskinio (Greece) , RKO 281 (Spain) , Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-Legende (Germany) , RKO 281 - tapaus Citizen Kane (Finland) , RKO 281 (Canada) , RKO 281: La bataille de Citizen Kane (Canada) , RKO 281 , Citizen Welles (France, French Republic) , RKO 281 - La vera storia di Quarto potere (Italy) , RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (United States of America) , RKO 281 (United States of America) , Az Aranypolgár születése (Hungary)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0120801