Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

RKO 281 [videorecording] / HBO Pictures presents in association with WGBH Boston ; a Scott Free production ; a Benjamin Ross film ; Labrador Films ; produced by Su Armstrong ; written by John Logan ; directed by Benjamin Ross.

Publisher, Date:

New York, N.Y. : HBO Home Video, 2000.

Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, 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 Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. 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.

Target Audience Note:

Rated R.

Subjects:

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 -- Drama.

Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 -- Drama.

Citizen Kane (Motion picture) -- Drama.

Made-for-TV movies.

Biographical television programs.

Other Author:

Ross, Benjamin, 1964-

Logan, John, 1961-

Armstrong, Su.