
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.
Top Billed 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
Featured Crew

Orson Welles
Director

Orson Welles
Producer

Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer

Gregg Toland
Director of Photography

Robert Wise
Editor

Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Edward Stevenson
Costume Design

Vernon L. Walker
Special Effects

Orson Welles
Screenplay

Herman J. Mankiewicz
Screenplay
Bailey Fesler
Sound Recordist
James G. Stewart
Sound Recordist