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Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Drama Mystery

Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

Release Date: 1941, April 17
Directors: Orson Welles
Countries: United States of America
Production: Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Jack Gargan, Rudy Germane, Bert Stevens, Walter Bacon, Lillian O'Malley, Gino Corrado, Jolane Reynolds, Suzanne Ridgway, Joan Blair, Sam Ash, Tom Coleman, Milton Kibbee

Overview:

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.

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