Citizen Kane
Completed
"Some called him a hero...others called him a heel."
1941-04-17
8
en 119mMysteryDrama
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.
Screenplay
Orson Welles
Screenplay
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Special Effects
Vernon L. Walker
Original Music Composer
Bernard Herrmann
Art Direction
Van Nest Polglase
Costume Design
Edward Stevenson
media tycoon florida art collector newspaper capitalist journalist sleigh banker american dream failure money black and white told in flashback criterion snowglobes kids serious based on real person
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$23,218,000Budget
$839,727Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- Mercury Productions
- RKO Radio Pictures
