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 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
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Release Date
April 17, 1941
Runtime
1h 59m
Rating
NR
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Director