Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
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.
$839,727
$23,218,000
April 17, 1941
Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
154 people
Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Directing
Joseph Cotten
Jedediah Leland
Acting
Dorothy Comingore
Susan Alexander Kane
Acting
Ray Collins
Jim W. Gettys
Acting
George Coulouris
Walter Parks Thatcher
Acting
Agnes Moorehead
Mary Kane
Acting
Paul Stewart
Raymond
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Ruth Warrick
Emily Norton Kane
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Erskine Sanford
Herbert Carter
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William Alland
Jerry Thompson/Narrator
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Everett Sloane
Mr. Bernstein
Acting
Fortunio Bonanova
Signor Matiste
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