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.
Title | Citizen Kane |
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Year | 1941 |
Genre | Mystery, Drama |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures |
Cast | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead |
Crew | Orson Welles (Director), Orson Welles (Producer), Bernard Herrmann (Original Music Composer), Gregg Toland (Director of Photography), Robert Wise (Editor), Van Nest Polglase (Art Direction) |
Keyword | media tycoon, florida, art collector, newspaper, capitalist, journalist, sleigh, banker, american dream, failure, money, snowglobes, child, pretentious, based on real person |
Release | Apr 17, 1941 |
Runtime | 119 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 8.00 / 10 by 5,554 users |
Popularity | 40 |
Budget | 839,727 |
Revenue | 23,218,000 |
Language | English |