When he directed Citizen Kane, a twenty-five year-old wunderkind Orson Welles had already had some success with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast and his independent Mercury Theatre company. Bu...

Producer and director Orson Welles wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane… but he wasn't alone. He penned this masterpiece with a newspaper film critic from New York named Herman J. Mankiewicz. Ma...

Believe it or not, Orson Welles founded Mercury Pictures in 1936 when he was (get this) twenty-one years old. He got the thing running as an independent theatre company and eventually used it to pr...

Insanely Innovative For Its TimeFor starters, you can thank a dude named Gregg Toland for the quality of this film's cinematography. Let's not forget that this movie is from 1941. It's old. It's so...

Bernard Herrmann wanted to find a way to express both the vastness of Kane's power and the innocence of his childhood and the sled that represents it. In fact, he makes such close connections betwe...

When you think of rabid fandoms, you don't tend to think about grainy black-and-white movies that take place half a century before they were made. But Wells breaks molds right and left: why shouldn...