Orson montage 21

The opening of Citizen Kane (the delayed opening) at the Palace in NYC, owned by RKO – the studio who had produced the picture. It opened in the middle of the shitstorming blacklist from all sides – Hearst, the FBI, Louis Mayer, the theatre chains who feared being punished by Hearst, etc. The only reason it could play here was because RKO had bought it. It was theirs. But it never got wide distribution. Ever.