Citizen Kane (1941)

  • NR
  • 05/01/1941 (US)
  • Mystery, Drama
  • 1h 59m

Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

Overview

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.

Orson Welles

Director, Screenplay

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Screenplay

Cast

Orson Welles's headshot

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cotten's headshot

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore's headshot

Dorothy Comingore

Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins's headshot

Ray Collins

Jim W. Gettys
George Coulouris's headshot

George Coulouris

Walter Parks Thatcher
Agnes Moorehead's headshot

Agnes Moorehead

Mary Kane
Paul Stewart's headshot

Paul Stewart

Raymond
Ruth Warrick's headshot

Ruth Warrick

Emily Norton Kane

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