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Citizen Kane

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

19411h 59mMystery · Drama

Released

April 17, 1941

8.0

TMDB Score

80% match · 6,314 votes

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About the Movie

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MysteryDrama

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.

DirectorOrson Welles

Released: April 17, 1941
Runtime: 1h 59m
Status: Released
Original language: English
Budget: $839.7K
Box office: $23.2M
Studios: Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Top Billed 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

GS

Gus Schilling

John

Philip Van Zandt

Mr. Rawlston

Georgia Backus

Bertha Anderson

Harry Shannon

Jim Kane

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