Citizen Kane
United States • 1941 • 1h 59m
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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.
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.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorOrson Welles
WriterOrson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
CinematographerGregg Toland
ComposerBernard Herrmann
EditorRobert Wise
ProducerOrson Welles
Cast
Orson Wellesas Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cottenas Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingoreas Susan Alexander Kane