This ULTIMATE Citizen Kane collection includes:

DISC 1: Orson Welles' 1941 classic remastered for maximum picture and audio clarity with audio commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich. Interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise Premiere Newsreel Gallery of Storyboards, Rare Photos, Alternate Ad Campaigns, Studio Correspondence, Call Sheets and Other Memorabilia. Audio-Only Bonuses: Welles' Legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" Mercury Theatre Broadcast and the 1940 radio program "H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles"

DISC 2: The 1995 Best Documentary Feature Oscar Nominee The Battle over Citizen Kane which chronicles the clash between Welles, RKO Studios and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst

DISC 3: The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning 1999 movie RKO 281 starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich.

PLUS EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTIBLES!

• 48-Page Book With Photos, Storyboards And Behind-The-Scenes Info
• 20-Page 1941 Souvenir Program Reproduction
• 10 Reproductions Of Studio Memos And Correspondence
• 5 One-Sheet/Lobby Card Reproductions

CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castle-like refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score (sound by Bailey Fesler and James G. Stewart, music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann); and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles's Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection. The film is essential viewing, quite possibly the greatest film ever made and, along with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, certainly the most influential.