Film · 1941

Citizen Kane

119 min · Mystery · Drama

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.

Directed by

Orson Welles

Starring

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins