Citizen Kane

1941

Directed by

Orson Welles, Orson Welles

Starring

Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins

Runtime

1h 59m

Country

USA

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.