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Kane
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When the film Citizen Kane finally appeared in 1941 despite the brouhaha that attended its — delayed because of distributors' fears of the harm William Randolph Hearst, its subject, might do to them — and largely ecstatic reviews, it was not a commercial success. It was television that brought it back to the public consciousness. It is perhaps the one film, above alt others, that has inspired people to become film-makers. This is all the more astonishing since it was Orson Welles's first film. Welles always that its success arose from his having no idea of what he was or wasn't allowed to do: he just went ahead and did it. But he had an extraordinary team at his cameraman Gregg Toland, screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, and the special-effects wizard Linwood Dunn. When Welles and Mankiewicz on the idea of portraying a newspaper magnate who both was and wasn't Hearst, Welles realised that he had found a perfect vehicle for himself both as director and actor, and his chance with the energy of a whirlwind.
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