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Citizen Kane

1941 • 1h59m Mystery, Drama

Rating

8.0/10

Popularity

5

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.

Details

Director

Orson Welles

Screenplay

Orson Welles

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Cast

Orson Welles

Joseph Cotten

Dorothy Comingore

Release date

4/17/1941

Status

Released

Budget

$839,727

Revenue

$23,218,000

Origin country

US

Vote count

5825