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Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson
Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and
carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if
ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known
easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy
and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or
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. Written by Welles and Herman J.
Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome
ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to
create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from
a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt
Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the
most modern of modern films this century. --Tom Keogh, Amazon
Citizen Kane
won only one Academy Award of the 9 for which it was nominated:
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
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| Joseph Cotten |
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Jedediah Leland/Newsreel Reporter |
| Dorothy Comingore |
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Susan Alexander |
| Agnes Moorehead |
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Mrs. Kane |
| Ruth Warrick |
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Emily Norton |
| Ray Collins (I) |
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Boss Jim Gettys |
| Erskine Sanford |
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Herbert Carter/Newsreel Reporter |
| Everett Sloane |
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Bernstein |
| William Alland |
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Jerry Thompson/"News on the
March" Narrator |
| Paul Stewart (I) |
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Raymond |
| George Coulouris |
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Walter P. Thatcher |
| Fortunio Bonanova |
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Matiste |
| Gus Schilling |
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Headwaiter |
| Philip Van Zandt |
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Rawlston |
| Katherine Trosper |
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Reporter |
| Georgia Backus |
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Bertha |
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