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RKO 281 (1999)

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Director:

Benjamin Ross

Starring:

Melanie Griffith, Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider

Genres:

Biography, Drama, Historical Drama, Television, US Premier

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

M

Languages:

English

Running Time:

83 min

RKO 281

synopsis


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.

 
 

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