Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon	...	(Director)
Richard Ben Cramer, Thomas Lennon	...	(Writer)
William Alland	...	Himself
Thomas Anderson	...	Himself
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself
Jimmy Breslin	...	Himself
Richard Ben Cramer	...	Narrator (voice)
Marion Davies	...	Herself (archive footage)
Leonard de Paur	...	Himself
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.	...	Himself
Richard France	...	Himself
William Randolph Hearst	...	Himself (archive footage)
William Herz	...	Himself
Sam Leve	...	Himself
Norman Lloyd	...	Himself
Nancy Loe	...	Herself
Frank Mankiewicz	...	Himself

Summary: This documentary, produced for PBS' _"American Experience, The" (1988)_ series, chronicles the struggles between filmmaker Orson Welles and newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst over the making and release of Citizen Kane (1941), whose protagonist (Charles Foster Kane) was allegedly a barely fictionalized Hearst. Interviews with contemporaries of Hearst and Welles reveal the intense campaign to suppress the film and ultimately ruin the career of its director.