Citizen Kane

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.

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Cast

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland

Dorothy Comingore

Susan Alexander Kane

Ray Collins

Jim W. Gettys

George Coulouris

Walter Parks Thatcher

Agnes Moorehead

Mary Kane

Paul Stewart

Raymond

Ruth Warrick

Emily Norton Kane

Erskine Sanford

Herbert Carter

William Alland

Jerry Thompson/Narrator

Everett Sloane

Mr. Bernstein

Fortunio Bonanova

Signor Matiste

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Gus Schilling

John

Philip Van Zandt

Mr. Rawlston

Georgia Backus

Bertha Anderson

Harry Shannon

Jim Kane

Sonny Bupp

Charles Foster Kane III

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Buddy Swan

Young Charles Foster Kane

Gregg Toland

Interviewer

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Don Ackerman

Man at Party in Everglades (uncredited)

Crew

Art

• Van Nest Polglase Art Direction

Camera

• Gregg Toland Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Edward Stevenson Costume Design

Crew

• Vernon L. Walker Special Effects

Directing

• Orson Welles Director

Editing

• Robert Wise Editor

Production

• Orson Welles Producer

Sound

• Bernard Herrmann Original Music Composer
• James G. Stewart Sound Recordist
• Bernard Herrmann Conductor
• Bailey Fesler Sound Recordist

Writing

• Orson Welles Screenplay
• Herman J. Mankiewicz Screenplay

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