Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a wealthy industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive step he takes for the rest of his life seems in some way to be a response to that deeply wounding event.
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Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a wealthy industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive step he takes for the rest of his life seems in some way to be a response to that deeply wounding event.
Running time
119 min
Age rating
15 years
Genre
Mystery, Drama
Original language
English
Director
Orson Welles
Cast
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, William Alland