Citizen Kane

In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters a word, "Rosebud", and dies; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel's producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson with discovering the meaning of "Rosebud".

Thompson sets out to interview Kane's friends and associates. He approaches Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander Kane, now an alcoholic who runs her own nightclub, but she refuses to talk to him. Thompson goes to the private archive of the late banker Walter Parks Thatcher. Through Thatcher's written memoirs, Thompson learns that Kane's childhood began in poverty in Colorado.

MPAA Rating:PG
Genre:Drama, Mystery
Country:United States
Produced By:Orson Welles, George Schaefer
Directed By:Orson Welles
Written By:Herman J. Mankiewicz, John Houseman, Roger Q. Denny, Mollie Kent, Orson Welles
Cast:Ken Weaver, Dick Scott, Bob Terry, Gerald Pierce, Francis Sayles, Peter Allen, Mike Lally, Thomas A. Curran, Carmen Laroux, Ruth Warrick, Walter James, Jack Ryan, Tom Coleman, Robert Dudley, Tudor Williams, Georgia Backus, Frank O'Connor, Frances E. Neal, Walter Lawrence, Michael Audley, Captain Garcia, Jack Curtis, Louis Natheaux, Walter Bacon, Herbert Corthell, Jack Gargan, Gayle DeCamp, Cyril Ring, Leda Nicova, Pauline Easterday, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ray Collins, Marie Day, Demetrius Alexis, Mitchell Ingraham, Gus Schilling, Edmund Cobb, Ernest Grooney, Arthur O'Connell, Harry Burkhardt, Alan Ladd, Bert LeBaron, Bert Stevens, Baudelio Alva, Larry Williams, Joan Blair, Al Eben, Harry Shannon, Suzanne Dulier, J.D. Lockhart, Charles West, Suzanne Ridgway, John Northpole, Jan Wiley, Joseph North, Jack Taylor, Robert Haines, Renee Godfrey, Sonny Bupp, Irene Crosby, William H. O'Brien, Don Roberts, Gregg Toland, Major McBride, Gohr Van Vleck, Arthur Yeoman, Tim Davis, Edward Ryan, Loretta Agar, Charles Bennett, Orson Welles, George Coulouris, Nat 'King' Cole, Morgan Brown, Carl Faulkner, Buddy Messinger, Fortunio Bonanova, James T. Mack, Agnes Moorehead, John Dilson, Myrtle Rishell, Jesse Graves, Sam Ash, Edward L. Hemmer, George Sherwood, Mickey Martin, Richard Wilson, Jack Egan, Terrance Ray, Tom Steele, George Noisom, Bill Kane, Peter Gowland, Ludwig Lowry, Dorothy Comingore, Russ Powell, Buck Mack, Everett Sloane, George Rogers, Al Frazier, Milton Kibbee, Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, Clyde McAtee, Jack Santoro, Sam Rice, Cliff Herd, Johnny Eckert, Arthur Kay, Olin Francis, Paul Stewart, Charles Cross, Philip Van Zandt, Henry Hebert, Art Dupuis, Carl Deloro, Irving Mitchell, George DeNormand, Joseph Cotten, Tim Wallace, William Alland, George W. Jimenez, Buddy Swan, Philip Morris, Bert Moorhouse, Danny Borzage, Carl Ekberg, Edna Mae Jones, Paddy O'Flynn, Glen Turnbull, Benny Rubin, Monty Ford, Margaret Davis, Victor Romito, Don Ackerman, Charles Meakin, Fred Trowbridge, Dorothy Cleveland, Jack Gwynne, Teddy Mangean, Field Norton, John McCormack, Louise Currie, William Alston, Rudy Germane, Lillian Nicholson, Louise Franklin, Sam Harris, Shimen Ruskin, Jack Raymond, Edith Evanson, Roland Winters, J.J. Clark, Harry J. Vejar, Dick Elmore, Ellen Lowe, Donna Dax, Frank McLure, Eddie Dew, Eddie Coke, Gene Coogan, Sally Corner, Harry A. Bailey, Lew Harvey, Gino Corrado, Walter Sande, Edward Peil Jr., Maurice Costello, Perc Launders, Thomas Pogue, Erskine Sanford, Ray Flynn
In Theaters:Sep 05, 1941
Runtime:1 hour 59 minutes
Production:RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions
Budget:$839,727
Box Office:$1,585,634
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