Film

Citizen Kane

1941 · 1h 59m · Mystery · Drama

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

IMDb

8.2

Rotten Tomatoes

99%

Metacritic

100

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.

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

• Orson WellesScreenplay · Producer · Director
• Herman J. MankiewiczScreenplay
• Gregg TolandDirector of Photography
• Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
• Robert WiseEditor

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Release date

April 17, 1941

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

NR

Budget

$839,727

Revenue

$23,218,000

Genres

Mystery, Drama

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