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Citizen Kane

Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

1941 · NR · 1h 59m

Directed by Orson Welles

8.0

TMDB audience score
6,328 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Orson Welles
    Charles Foster Kane

  • Joseph Cotten
    Jedediah Leland

  • Dorothy Comingore
    Susan Alexander Kane

  • Ray Collins
    Jim W. Gettys

  • George Coulouris
    Walter Parks Thatcher

  • Agnes Moorehead
    Mary Kane

  • Paul Stewart
    Raymond

  • Ruth Warrick
    Emily Norton Kane

  • Erskine Sanford
    Herbert Carter

  • William Alland
    Jerry Thompson/Narrator

  • Everett Sloane
    Mr. Bernstein

  • Fortunio Bonanova
    Signor Matiste

  • Gus Schilling
    John

  • Philip Van Zandt
    Mr. Rawlston

  • Georgia Backus
    Bertha Anderson

  • Harry Shannon
    Jim Kane

  • Sonny Bupp
    Charles Foster Kane III

  • Buddy Swan
    Young Charles Foster Kane