Citizen Kane poster
Screenplay Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Director Orson Welles

Citizen Kane

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

Release Date: 1941-04-17

Duration: 119 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Orson Welles
    Charles Foster Kane
  • Everett Sloane
    Mr. Bernstein
  • Agnes Moorehead
    Mary Kane
  • Arthur O'Connell
    Reporter (uncredited)
  • Bert Stevens
    Man at Madison Square Garden (uncredited)
  • Frank O'Connor
    Man at Madison Square Garden (uncredited)
  • Tom Coleman
    Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)
  • Ray Collins
    Jim W. Gettys
  • Joseph Cotten
    Jedediah Leland
  • John Alban
    Reporter (uncredited)