RKO 281 (2000)
1h 24m
Running Time
April 7, 2000Release Date
RKO 281 (2000)
1h 24m
Running Time
April 7, 2000Release Date
Network & Production Companies
![Scott Free Productions](https://images.moviefit.me/pc/s/996-scott-free-productions.webp)
![BBC Films](https://images.moviefit.me/pc/s/1115-bbc-films.webp)
![HBO Films](https://images.moviefit.me/pc/s/10-hbo-films.webp)
![WGBH Boston](https://images.moviefit.me/pc/s/1355-wgbh-boston.webp)
![Watch RKO 281 Trailer](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/30778-rko-281.webp)
Plot.
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
![Liev Schreiber](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2559-liev-schreiber.webp)
Liev Schreiber
Orson Welles
![James Cromwell](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2452-james-cromwell.webp)
James Cromwell
William Randolph Hearst
![Melanie Griffith](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/17183-melanie-griffith.webp)
Melanie Griffith
Marion Davies
![John Malkovich](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/7363-john-malkovich.webp)
John Malkovich
Herman Mankiewicz
![Brenda Blethyn](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/29235-brenda-blethyn.webp)
Brenda Blethyn
Louella Parsons
![Roy Scheider](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4285-roy-scheider.webp)
Roy Scheider
George Schaefer
![Liam Cunningham](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/13003-liam-cunningham.webp)
Liam Cunningham
Gregg Toland
![David Suchet](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16261-david-suchet.webp)
David Suchet
Louis B. Mayer
![Fiona Shaw](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1474-fiona-shaw.webp)
Fiona Shaw
Hedda Hopper
![Anastasia Hille](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/37010-anastasia-hille.webp)
Anastasia Hille
Carole Lombard
![Roger Allam](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/3488-roger-allam.webp)
Roger Allam
Walt Disney
![Simeon Andrews](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Simeon Andrews
John Houseman
![Benjamin Ross](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/84306-benjamin-ross.webp)
Benjamin Ross
Director
![John Logan](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/58911-john-logan.webp)
John Logan
Writer
![William Armstrong](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/397-william-armstrong.webp)
William Armstrong
Mr. Lewis
![Richard Ben Cramer](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Richard Ben Cramer
Writer
![Jay Benedict](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/307-jay-benedict.webp)
Jay Benedict
Darryl Zanuck
![Thomas Lennon](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Thomas Lennon
Writer
![Ron Berglas](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/230704-ron-berglas.webp)
Ron Berglas
David O. Selznick
![Thomas Lennon](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Thomas Lennon
Writer
![Paul Birchard](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/381-paul-birchard.webp)
Paul Birchard
Top Brass #2
![Su Armstrong](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Su Armstrong
Producer
![Neil Conrich](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/87930-neil-conrich.webp)
Neil Conrich
Mr. Thomson
![John Altman](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/96126-john-altman.webp)
John Altman
Composer
![Mike Southon](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Mike Southon
Cinematographer
![Michael Cronin](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/71480-michael-cronin.webp)
Michael Cronin
Joseph Willicombe
![Alex Mackie](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Alex Mackie
Editor
![Sarah Franzl](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Sarah Franzl
Dorothy Comingore
![Lora Kennedy](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/60137-lora-kennedy.webp)
Lora Kennedy
CastingDirector
![Briony Glassco](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/63917-briony-glassco.webp)
Briony Glassco
Script Girl
![Joyce Nettles](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Joyce Nettles
CastingDirector
![Louis Hammond](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Louis Hammond
Flunkie #2
![Aaron Keeling](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/71466-aaron-keeling.webp)
Aaron Keeling
Young Orson Welles
![Maria Djurkovic](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1167659-maria-djurkovic.webp)
Maria Djurkovic
ProductionDesigner
![Joseph Long](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2243-joseph-long.webp)
Joseph Long
Harry Cohn
![Gareth Marks](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gareth Marks
Top Brass #1
![Olivier Pierre](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Olivier Pierre
Sam Goldwyn
![Roger Rose](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/165904-roger-rose.webp)
Roger Rose
News Reader
![Rolf Saxon](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/3385-rolf-saxon.webp)
Rolf Saxon
Flunkie #1
![Adrian Schiller](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2745-adrian-schiller.webp)
Adrian Schiller
Paul Stewart
![Kerry Shale](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/10769-kerry-shale.webp)
Kerry Shale
Bernard Herrmann
![Cyril Shaps](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6341-cyril-shaps.webp)
Cyril Shaps
Jeweller
![Tusse Silberg](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16810-tusse-silberg.webp)
Tusse Silberg
Welles' Mother
![Toby Whithouse](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/13253-toby-whithouse.webp)
Toby Whithouse
Sound Technician
![Tim Woodward](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/29986-tim-woodward.webp)
Tim Woodward
Jack Warner
![Angus Wright](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2023861-angus-wright.webp)
Angus Wright
Joseph Cotten
![Bobby Valentino](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/3242600-bobby-valentino.webp)
Bobby Valentino
Clark Gable
![Ridley Scott](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/852-ridley-scott.webp)
Ridley Scott
Executive Producer
![Tony Scott](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11846-tony-scott.webp)
Tony Scott
Executive Producer
![Heather Storr](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Heather Storr
Script Supervisor
![Stephen Morley](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stephen Morley
Still Photographer
![Ali Goss](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ali Goss
Costume Supervisor
![Clive Derbyshire](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Clive Derbyshire
Sound Recordist
![Gordon Brown](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gordon Brown
Dialogue Editor
![Jonathan Cronin](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jonathan Cronin
ADR Editor
![Nick Adams](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Nick Adams
Supervising Sound Editor
![Paul Wrightson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Paul Wrightson
Sound Effects Editor
![Mike Dowson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Mike Dowson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
![Mark Taylor](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Mark Taylor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
![Steven Begg](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Steven Begg
Visual Effects Supervisor
![Lucinda Thomson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lucinda Thomson
Art Direction
![Tatiana Macdonald](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Tatiana Macdonald
Set Decoration
![Alan Bailey](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Alan Bailey
Property Master
![Stewart Meachem](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stewart Meachem
Costume Designer
![Diane Minter Lewis](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Diane Minter Lewis
Co-Executive Producer
![Chris Zarpas](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Chris Zarpas
Co-Executive Producer
![Richard Hammatt](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Richard Hammatt
Stunt Coordinator
![Lee Sheward](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lee Sheward
Stunt Coordinator
![Nigel Gostelow](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Nigel Gostelow
Unit Production Manager
![Toby Ford](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Toby Ford
Second Assistant Director
![Judy Ducker](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Judy Ducker
Property Buyer
![Ian Jackson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ian Jackson
Camera Operator
![Malcolm J. Sheehan](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Malcolm J. Sheehan
Key Grip
![Roseann Samuel](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Roseann Samuel
Hair Department Head / Makeup Department Head
![Jo Schotting](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jo Schotting
Third Assistant Director
![Michael Epstein](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael Epstein
Story Consultant
![Micky Brown](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Micky Brown
Gaffer
![Stuart Murdoch](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stuart Murdoch
Special Effects
![Stephen Barker](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stephen Barker
Post Production Supervisor
![Tracey Gibbons](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Tracey Gibbons
Post Production Supervisor
![Diane Greaves](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Diane Greaves
Foley Artist
![Michelle Greaves](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michelle Greaves
Foley Artist
![Michael Stainer](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael Stainer
Color Timer
![David Daniels](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
David Daniels
First Assistant Director
Media.
![RKO 281](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/30778-rko-281.webp)
![RKO 281](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/1/30778-rko-281.webp)
![RKO 281](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/2/30778-rko-281.webp)
Details.
This Movie Is About.
movie business
biography
1940s
yellow press
anti semitism
movie star
based on movie
aspiring director
film and cinema
filmmaking
Wiki.
RKO 281 is a 1999 American historical drama television film directed by Benjamin Ross, written by John Logan, and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Roy Scheider, and Liam Cunningham. The film depicts the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane. The film's title is a reference to the original production number of Citizen Kane. It premiered on HBO on November 20, 1999.
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