Citizen Kane

• 8.01 Mystery
• 1941-04-17
• 119 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Orson Welles

Writer:

Orson Welles Herman J. Mankiewicz