Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Mystery
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 119
Rating: 7.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Orson Welles
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

365 days in the making - and every minute of it an exciting NEW thrill for you !

Radios Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screens most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said hed never make

Its Terrific!

Everybodys talking about it!

The classic story of power and the press.

I hate him! I love him! Hes a scoundrel! Hes a saint! Hes crazy! Hes a genius!

Some called him a hero. Others called him a heel...

Writing by: Herman J. Mankiewicz - (screenplay) and
Orson Welles - (screenplay)

Produced by: Orson Welles - producer
George Schaefer - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore - Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead - Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Ray Collins - James W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford - Herbert Carter
Everett Sloane - Mr. Bernstein
William Alland - Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart - Raymond
George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher
Fortunio Bonanova - Signor Matiste

Music: Bernard Herrmann
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Plot Outline: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Plot: Orson Welles "Citizen Kane" is widely considered to be the greatest film to ever come out of Hollywood. The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kanes life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kanes life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating mans rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."

Crazy Credits: We know about 5 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The films opening title card is presented briefly with no music.

Goofs: We know about 27 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Leland and Bernstein are inspecting Kanes art purchases, Leland moves a statue which wobbles too quickly for it to be made of a dense stone such as marble.

Trivia: There are 69 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the balance of the screenplay for this film from a hospital bed recovering from illness.
• The scene where Kane destroys Susans room after shes left him was done on the first take. Director/star Orson Welles hands were bleeding, and he is quoted as saying, "I really felt it."
• The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend Jedediah Leland and down at weaker characters like Susan Alexander Kane. This was a technique that Orson Welles borrowed from John Ford who had used it two years previously on Stagecoach (1939). Welles privately watched Stagecoach (1939) about 40 times while making this film.

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