Citizen Kane should have been a box-office hit when released in 1941. It had superb and groundbreaking cinematography, a Director who was prepared to learn from his more-experienced colleagues but who had a spark of creative genius about him, a veteran screenwriter, and little interference from the studio executives.
Instead it was suppressed, its director vilified and even physically harassed, and strenuous efforts made to kill it at the box-office and even the Academy Awards. The supposed subject bankrupted himself to keep it from the general public.
Despite this, a revival in the 50s finally brought it to the attention of the cinema-goer; today it is revered as perhaps the greatest movie ever made...
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