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| Director: | Benjamin Ross |
| Studio: | HBO Pictures |
| Producer: | Su Armstrong, Diane Minter Lewis, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Chris Zarpas |
| Writer: | John Logan, Richard Ben Cramer |
| Rating: | 7.1 (4,863 votes) |
| Rated: | R |
| Date Added: | 2016-02-24 |
| UPC: | 9780783117294 |
| Price: | 9.98 |
| Awards: | Won 1 Golden Globe, Another 13 wins & 27 nominations |
| Genre: | Biography, Drama, TV Movie |
| Release: | 1999-11-20 |
| IMDb: | 0120801 |
| Duration: | 86 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
| Sound: | Dolby Digital |
| Languages: | English |
| LAC code: | 300010856 |
| DVD or VHS: | DVD |
| Original: | original |
Summary: 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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RKO 281
(1999)
USA, UK