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| | Citizen Kane |
 | | Kane is at first a crusader for the downtrodden, opening his first editorial with a "declaration of principles." He becomes a champion of the little person, hyping his circulation with juicy scandals, crime exposes, and, like newspaper czar William Randolph Hearst, goading the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. |
 | | Citizen Kane is a landmark film for myriad reasons, not the least of which is the variety of techniques employedquick cuts, imaginative dissolves, even the iris device once popular in silent films. |
 | | Citizen Kane was the first film to showcase his enormous talent, along with the great supporting players Cotten, Collins, Coulouris, Stewart, Sloane, and Moorehead, all of whom came out of Welles's distinguished Mercury Players Group in New York City. |
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