Charles Foster Kane says at one point "Don't believe everything you hear on the radio," during the film Citizen Kane. These are ironic words, coming from the mouth of actor Orson Welles, who, three years earlier, had broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Well's The War...

Citizen Kane The movie opens with a fade-in on foggy, forlorn Xanadu, a palatial estate off the Florida coast, where Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, dies whispering the word "Rosebud." Fade-out, then a flat cut to a "March of Time"-like...