Citizen Kane
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- Release Date
- April 17, 1941
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Cast
- Orson Welles , Joseph Cotten , Dorothy Comingore , Agnes Moorehead , Ruth Warrick , Ray Collins
- Runtime
- 119
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Writers
- Herman J. Mankiewicz , Orson Welles , John Houseman , Roger Q. Denny , Mollie Kent
- Tagline
- Everybody's talking about it!
Summary
The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed.
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