Movie

Citizen Kane (1941)

• NR
• April 17, 1941
• 1h 59m

• Mystery
• Drama

“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.

Director

Orson Welles

Writers

Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Starring

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore