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“Citizen Kane” ranks as the greatest American film of all time, according to a survey of film critics and historians released Monday. “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” won second and third place, respectively in the survey by the Siena College Research Institute of Loudonville, N.Y., announced as part of Hollywood’s 100th anniversary. The institute received 113 responses from 500 surveys mailed in the fall of 1986 to prominent film critics and college and university film department heads.