Movie
Citizen Kane
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1941-04-17
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane
- Paul Stewart as Raymond
- Ruth Warrick as Emily Norton Kane
- Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter
- William Alland as Jerry Thompson/Narrator
- Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein
- Fortunio Bonanova as Signor Matiste
Crew
- Orson Welles - Director
- Orson Welles - Screenplay
- Herman J. Mankiewicz - Screenplay
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