I remember when I was in college I took an elective class on movies and watched Citizen Kane for the first time. I enjoyed it but it was a one time thing for me and YET so many rave about this film as the greatest ever made. When this trailer was unearthed after many decades movie buffs raved about it like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Siskel and Ebert actually gave it a review! In the clip an unseen Orson Welles promotes Citizen Kane and introduces us to the cast many of whom are making their motion picture debut such as Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane and Joseph Cotton. Yes Citizen Kane is a great film but the saddest thing is that Welles spent the rest of his career in decline and in the final years of his life was reduced to narrator jobs and selling tacky products in cheap commercials. There were almost a hundred projects he was unable to make because Hollywood shoved him aside That is the real tragedy of Orson Welles so sadder then that of Charles Foster Kane.

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