from RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by
Orson
Welles
Cast
Orson
Welles (Charles Foster Kane)
Joseph
Cotten (Jedediah Leland)
Dorothy Comingore (Susan Alexander)
Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Kane)
Ruth Warrick (Emily Norton)
Ray Collins (Boss Jim Gettys)
Erskine Sanford (Herbert Carter)
Everett Sloane (Bernstein)
William Alland (Jerry Thompson)
Written by
Herman
J. Mankiewicz
Orson
Welles
Original Music by
Bernard
Herrmann |
 No doubt the
greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece made
when he was only in his twenties, still seems fresh today. Orson
Welles plays newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (based on William
Randolph Hearst) who was taken from his mother as a boy, made
the ward of a rich industrialist and then went on to become a
rich and bitter man. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz
and photographed by Gregg Toland using camera techniques that
were revolutionary for their time.
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