Episode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen Jones

Movie Night Extravaganza by Forrest Miller

Episode notes

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about CITIZEN KANE on the first episode of 2026 with Eileen Jones!!

Orson Welles groundbreaking drama, telling the story of Charles Foster Kane, America's biggest newspaper magnate, a man who had everything and lost it all.

Based on William Randolph Hearst, Charles Foster Kane's love of power and wealth, leads him to lose everyone in his life and eventually spend his whole fortune trying to impress his ex-wife Susan Alexander

Orson Welles directorial debut stars many first time film actors from Welles's Mercury Theater, Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart as well as actress Dorothy Comingore

It was a truly groundbreaking piece of classic cinema and is hailed as one of the best films of all time #orsonwelles #citizenkane #rko #josephc ... 

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