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.
- Genre: Mystery, Drama
- Studio: Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
- Keyword: media tycoon, florida, art collector, newspaper, capitalist, journalist, sleigh, banker, american dream, failure, money, snowglobes, child, pretentious, based on real person
- Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead