Citizen Kane (1941)

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Released:
1941-04-17

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

Runtime:
1h 59min

Genre:
Mystery, Drama

  • Cast:
  • Orson Welles
    as
    Charles Foster Kane
  • Joseph Cotten
    as
    Jedediah Leland
  • Dorothy Comingore
    as
    Susan Alexander Kane
  • Ray Collins
    as
    Jim W. Gettys
  • George Coulouris
    as
    Walter Parks Thatcher