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...center are the frames themselves, a credit sequence in block-like lettering with deep perspective shadows. The words appear over a Deco keystone graphically linked to the logo of the studio that made this movie: RKO Radio Pictures. It's hard to make out the words in the 16mm frames; the sequence is right at the end of a dissolve, and in many of the frames you read two words in the place of one. Only at one end of the strip do the words become clear: there's "Technical Staff," under that "E.B." someone, maybe "Gibson," then "Marcel Delgado...
...easily available for rental or sale, there are rumours of a notoriously bad German DVD, and it shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...
...Biggest Star. Or very nearly. He was the No. 1 box-office star five times (the only one between 1915 and 1980). After their first runs, "Going My Way" was the top-grossing film in Paramount's history, and "The Bells of St. Mary's" the top grosser in RKO history...
...exults Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber, right, with Roy Scheider), describing his concept for Citizen Kane (studio production No. RKO 281): "A titanic figure of limitless ambition...controlling the deceptions of everyone beneath him." Welles means William Randolph Hearst, the ruthless magnate he would nail in the movie that, owing to Hearst's power, almost went unreleased. The irony: like Hearst, the auteur was driven to selfish cruelty for his (artistic) ends. Despite Schreiber's intensity and charm, this film never plumbs its subject's soul as Welles' did, but it's an often absorbing study of free expression...
...only realized this year what a luxury it is not to get overexposed," says LIEV SCHREIBER. Rather than practicing false humility, the actor is acknowledging how intense media attention can hobble a career. As an example, he cites Orson Welles, whom he portrays in HBO's upcoming RKO 281, the story of the making of Citizen Kane. "When this movie was released," he says, "no one saw it because William Randolph Hearst hated it. So the press killed it." Schreiber has been drawing increased scrutiny as he rehearses Hamlet on Broadway and reprises his Scream role in December. And wary...