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A Balasaur Score of 89 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 99%, Metacritic 100/100. Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 97% of the 89 1940s mystery movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes99%
Metacritic100/100
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
6,214 audience votes
Key crew
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- Orson WellesScreenplay
- Herman J. MankiewiczScreenplay
- Orson WellesDirector
Cast
- 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
Stills
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Themes
media tycoonfloridaart collectornewspapercapitalistjournalistsleighbankeramerican dreamfailuremoneyblack and white
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