Citizen Kane
Date: 1941
Director: Orson Welles
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead
Location(s): California, New York, USA.
Region(s): N. America
Storyline:
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
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Location shots all appear to be stock or second unit in this film telling the life story of Charles Foster Kane. IMDB tells us that the Californian locations Balboa Park, El Prado, San Diego; Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena and Busch Gardens on South Grove Avenue also in Pasadena were used to depict Xanadu.
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Regarded by many as one of the greatest films of all time, the location work is a little thin on the ground. Another shot of Kane's massive, never completed Xanadu.
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Also playing the part of Xanadu is Oheka Castle, West Gate Drive, Huntington, New York. Identified on 'Moviemaps' website.
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This is Kykuit, the Rockefeller family’s estate in 381 N Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, United States (SR)
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Supposedly built in Florida, Xanadu is described in the film as being the world's largest private estate. Oscar Delgado identifies this as the San Diego Museum of Art at 1450 El Prado, San Diego in California.
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Oheka Castle again in Huntington, New York.
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More of Xanadu.
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A final shot of Xanadu's grounds. An unidentified location.
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Kane's funeral takes place. This could be a studio set.
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The story is told of Charles Foster Kane's beginnings. A 'doctored' stock shot of a small food store somewhere in the US.
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Another stock shot of 1940's America, showing 125 Riverside Drive, New York. (SR)
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Charles takes his second wife, Susan Alexander Kane, on a picnic. This is identified on the 'Filmaps' website as on the beach off the present day East Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, USA.