Citizen Kane

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.

• Orson WellesDirector
• Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
• Orson WellesScreenplay
• Herman J. MankiewiczScreenplay

• Orson WellesCharles Foster Kane
• Joseph CottenJedediah Leland
• Dorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander Kane
• Ray CollinsJim W. Gettys
• George CoulourisWalter Parks Thatcher
• Agnes MooreheadMary Kane
• Paul StewartRaymond
• Ruth WarrickEmily Norton Kane
• Erskine SanfordHerbert Carter
• William AllandJerry Thompson/Narrator
• Everett SloaneMr. Bernstein
• Fortunio BonanovaSignor Matiste