Citizen Kane has long been hailed as the greatest film ever made. It was the first full-length feature film of the influential director Orson Welles. Citizen Kane gave Welles acclaim and positioned him as a triple threat who directed, co-wrote, and acted in an indisputable masterpiece. But there is more to the tale than meets the eye.
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Citizen Kain’s authorship has been a highly disputed subject in Hollywood history, as has the true story behind the film. In Mank, David Fincher’s 2020 biopic of Citizen Kane’s co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, the director takes another look at some of the infamous feuds behind the classic.