Citizen Kane
5644 reviews
Mystery/Drama
1h 59m
1941
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...
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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.
- DirectorOrson Welles
- Release17 April 1941
- Genre
- Duration1h 59m
- Budget$839,727
- Revenue$23,218,000
- Rate5644 reviews
- Productions
Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
Cast

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

Sonny Bupp
Charles Foster Kane III

Gregg Toland
Interviewer

Gino Corrado
Gino (uncredited)

Maurice Costello
Extra (uncredited)

Gene Coogan
Newsreel Man (uncredited)

Rudy Germane
Newsreel Man (uncredited)

Mike Lally
Newsreel Man (uncredited)

John Northpole
Newsreel Man (uncredited)

Bob Terry
Newsreel Man (uncredited)

Carmen Laroux
Maid in Xanadu Hall (uncredited)

Sam Ash
Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)

Buddy Messinger
Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)

J.J. Clark
Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

Jack Egan
Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

John McCormack
Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

Larry Wheat
Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

Larry Williams
Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

Joan Blair
Georgia (uncredited)

Morgan Brown
Servant (uncredited)

Harry Burkhardt
Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb
Inquirer Reporter (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux
Reporter (uncredited)

Arthur O'Connell
Reporter (uncredited)

Richard Wilson
Reporter (uncredited)

Louise Currie
Reporter at Xanadu (uncredited)

Walter Sande
Reporter at Xanadu (uncredited)

Jan Wiley
Reporter at Xanadu (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee
Reporter at Wedding (uncredited)

Alan Ladd
Reporter Smoking Pipe at End (uncredited)

Jack Curtis
Boss Printer (uncredited)

Gerald Pierce
Copy Boy Delivering Message in Chicago Hotel Room (uncredited)

Dona Dax
House Maid (uncredited)

Bud Geary
Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

Cyril Ring
Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

Roland Winters
Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

Lew Harvey
Newspaperman (uncredited)

Herman J. Mankiewicz
Newspaperman (uncredited)

Eddie Dew
Man in Projection Room (uncredited)

John Dilson
Ward Heeler (uncredited)

Robert Dudley
Photographer (uncredited)

Edith Evanson
Leland's Nurse (uncredited)

Suzanne Ridgway
Dancer (uncredited)

Olin Francis
Expressman (uncredited)

Renee Godfrey
Nurse (uncredited)

Jesse Graves
Joseph (uncredited)

Henry Hebert
Best Man at Wedding (uncredited)

Mitchell Ingraham
Politician (uncredited)

Frank McLure
(uncredited)

Charles Meakin
Civic Leader (uncredited)

Edward Peil Jr.
Civic Leader (uncredited)

Frances E. Neal
Ethel (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien
Secretary (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor
Man at Madison Square Garden (uncredited)

Russ Powell
Man at Madison Square Garden (uncredited)

Bert Stevens
Man at Madison Square Garden (uncredited)

Benny Rubin
Smather (uncredited)

Shimen Ruskin
Hireling (uncredited)

Edward Ryan
Man in Inquirer City Room (uncredited)

Landers Stevens
Senate Investigator (uncredited)

Harry J. Vejar
Portuguese Laborer (uncredited)

Tim Davis
Copy Boy (uncredited)

Charles Bennett
Entertainer (uncredited)

Sam Harris
Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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