Movie
Citizen Kane
1941NR1h 59m8.0 / 10
Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Synopsis
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Cast, crew and production details
About Citizen Kane
Cast
Orson WellesCharles Foster Kane
Joseph CottenJedediah Leland
Dorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander Kane
Ray CollinsJim W. Gettys
George CoulourisWalter Parks Thatcher
Agnes MooreheadMary Kane
Paul StewartRaymond
Ruth WarrickEmily Norton KaneCredits
- Directed by
- Orson Welles
- Written by
- Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $839.7K
- Box office
- $23.2M
Production
- Mercury ProductionsUnited States
RKO Radio PicturesUnited States
Themes
american dreamart collectorbankerbased on real personblack and whitecapitalistfailurefloridajournalistkidsmedia tycoonmoneynewspapersleigh
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