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In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of the newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, Orson Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also unleashed a torrent of stylistic innovations that have ensured that Citizen Kane remains fresh and galvanizing for every new generation of moviegoers who encounter it.

Set in the early fifties amidst the Korean War, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by the same name tells the story of a decorated U.S. Army Sergeant brainwashed into becoming a Communist sleeper assassin and a fellow POW (Frank Sinatra) who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.

Chance (Peter Sellers), a gentle, illiterate gardener, becomes an unlikely Washington, D.C. celebrity--simply by being there. His unexpectedly wise metaphors about gardening influence the nation's leaders toward peace in this comedic and cautionary fable about the power of simplicity.