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Some called him a hero...others called him a heel. - Citizen Kane
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Title: Citizen Kane

Release Date: 17 Apr 1941

Runtime: 1h 59m

Genre: Mystery, Drama

Director: Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Production Companies: Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 8.002 (5558 votes)

Cast

  • Charles Foster Kane: Orson Welles
  • Jedediah Leland: Joseph Cotten
  • Susan Alexander Kane: Dorothy Comingore
  • Jim W. Gettys: Ray Collins
  • Walter Parks Thatcher: George Coulouris
  • Mary Kane: Agnes Moorehead
  • Raymond: Paul Stewart
  • Emily Norton Kane: Ruth Warrick
  • Herbert Carter: Erskine Sanford
  • Jerry Thompson/Narrator: William Alland
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