Citizen Kane

19411h 59m8.0(6,248)

MysteryDrama

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.

CountryUnited States of America

GenreMystery, Drama

ReleaseApril 17, 1941

DirectorOrson Welles

ProductionMercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

CastOrson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

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