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Citizen Kane

(1941)

April 17, 1941• 1h 59m
80%
TMDB Score

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.

Orson Welles

Director

Top Billed Cast

OW

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane

JC

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland

DC

Dorothy Comingore

Susan Alexander Kane

RC

Ray Collins

Jim W. Gettys

GC

George Coulouris

Walter Parks Thatcher

AM

Agnes Moorehead

Mary Kane

PS

Paul Stewart

Raymond

RW

Ruth Warrick

Emily Norton Kane

ES

Erskine Sanford

Herbert Carter

WA

William Alland

Jerry Thompson/Narrator

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