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Citizen Kane

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

  • Movie
  • 1941
  • NR
  • 1h 59m

Directed by Orson Welles

8.0

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8.0 out of 10 from 6,328 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Orson Welles

    Orson WellesCharles Foster Kane

  • Joseph Cotten

    Joseph CottenJedediah Leland

  • Dorothy Comingore

    Dorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander Kane

  • Ray Collins

    Ray CollinsJim W. Gettys

  • George Coulouris

    George CoulourisWalter Parks Thatcher

  • Agnes Moorehead

    Agnes MooreheadMary Kane

  • Paul Stewart

    Paul StewartRaymond

  • Ruth Warrick

    Ruth WarrickEmily Norton Kane

  • Erskine Sanford

    Erskine SanfordHerbert Carter

  • William Alland

    William AllandJerry Thompson/Narrator

  • Everett Sloane

    Everett SloaneMr. Bernstein

  • Fortunio Bonanova

    Fortunio BonanovaSignor Matiste

  • Gus SchillingJohn

  • Philip Van Zandt

    Philip Van ZandtMr. Rawlston

  • Georgia Backus

    Georgia BackusBertha Anderson

  • Harry Shannon

    Harry ShannonJim Kane

  • Sonny Bupp

    Sonny BuppCharles Foster Kane III

  • Buddy SwanYoung Charles Foster Kane

Director
Orson Welles
Writer
Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz
Music
Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography
Gregg Toland