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The mystery of Rosebud - explanation | Advertisement feature | guardian.co.uk

"More intriguingly, there's a possibility that Mankiewicz was trying to slip Rosebud not past the censors, but past Welles."

'But, as with so much in life, perhaps the real answer to the mystery of Rosebud is the most straightforward. '

'Pauline Kael, in her essay Raising Kane, says Welles always said of Mankiewicz: "Everything concerning Rosebud belongs to him". '

'And last but not least, the thrillingly pointless discovery that Rosebud is something utterly banal. '

'As a result, few cinemas in the US would show the film and it never reached a wide audience until many years after release. '

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