Citizen Kane

1941 · 1h59 · Film

Directed by Orson Welles

Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, William Alland

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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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Music

Bernard Herrmann

Cinematography

Gregg Toland

Cast

Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, William Alland, Everett Sloane, Fortunio Bonanova

Updated July 22, 2026

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