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RKO 281

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When RKO Pictures began work on production number 281, no one could have imagined that they were making perhaps the greatest American film of all time. But the moment Orson Welles (played by Liev Schreiber) announced that he intended to make a film ... Read More
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Liev Schreiber Orson Welles
James Cromwell William Randolph Hearst
Melanie Griffith Marion Davies
John Malkovich Herman Mankiewicz
Brenda Blethyn Louella Parsons
Roy Scheider George Schaefer
David Suchet Louis B. Mayer
Fiona Shaw Hedda Hopper
Liam Cunningham Gregg Toland
Lucy Cohu Dolores Del Rio

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