Citizen Kane (1941)
Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
1941 · NR · 1h 59m · Mystery, Drama
Genres: Mystery, Drama
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.
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Robert Wise
Box office: $23M · Rated 8/10 by 6141 viewers
Cast
Orson Welles as Charles Foster KaneJoseph Cotten as Jedediah LelandDorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander KaneRay Collins as Jim W. GettysGeorge Coulouris as Walter Parks ThatcherAgnes Moorehead as Mary KanePaul Stewart as RaymondRuth Warrick as Emily Norton KaneErskine Sanford as Herbert CarterWilliam Alland as Jerry Thompson/NarratorEverett Sloane as Mr. BernsteinFortunio Bonanova as Signor MatisteMore like this
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