19411h 59mDir. Orson Welles

Citizen Kane

Name: Citizen Kane
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Released: 1941-04-17
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris

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

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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.

Starring:Orson Welles,Joseph Cotten,Dorothy Comingore,Ray Collins,George Coulouris

Featured Cast

(12 actors)

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland

Dorothy Comingore

Susan Alexander Kane

Ray Collins

Jim W. Gettys

George Coulouris

Walter Parks Thatcher

Agnes Moorehead

Mary Kane

Paul Stewart

Raymond

Ruth Warrick

Emily Norton Kane

Erskine Sanford

Herbert Carter

William Alland

Jerry Thompson/Narrator

Everett Sloane

Mr. Bernstein

Fortunio Bonanova

Signor Matiste

Key Production Crew

Director

Orson Welles

Screenplay & Writers

Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Cinematography

Gregg Toland

Original Score

Bernard Herrmann

Producers

Orson Welles

Film Details

Budget$839,727

Box Office Revenue$23,218,000

Original Languageen

Production Studios

Mercury ProductionsRKO Radio Pictures

Keywords & Themes

#media tycoon#florida#art collector#newspaper#capitalist#journalist#sleigh#banker#american dream#failure

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Aniket Shukla @aniket11

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Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane is considered, according to the American Film Institution, the greatest movie ever made, and for very good reason. This movie is about the life of Charles Foster Kane, and the meani...

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