Citizen Kane

Drama, Mystery

Joseph Cotten	Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore	Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins	James W. Gettys
Agnes Moorehead	Mary Kane
Erskine Sanford	Herbert Carter
William Alland	Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart	Raymond
Everett Sloane	Mr. Bernstein
George Coulouris	Walter Parks Thatcher
Ruth Warrick	Emily Monroe Norton Kane

Director	Thomas Lennon; Orson Welles
Producer	Thomas Lennon; Orson Welles; George Schaefer
Writer	Thomas Lennon; Orson Welles; Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cinematography	Gregg Toland
Musician	Bernard Herrmann; Richard Rodgers; Charlie Barnet; Pepe Guízar; Haven Johnson; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Frédéric Chopin; Anthony Collins; Samuel Lover; Theo. A. Metz; Alfred Newman; George Frederick Root; Gioacchino Rossini; Nathaniel Shilkret; Max Steiner; Frank Tours; Richard Wagner; Roy Webb

Citizen Kane is about Charles Foster Kane (Orson Wells), an extremely rich media magnate. The film opens on the scene of Kane’s death. As maid enters the room, Kane dies clutching a snow globe containing a little wood house and uttering the word: Rosebud. A reporter Thompson (William Alland) is assigned to find out more about Kane’s private life, and the meaning of his last words. Kane’s life is told in a series of flashbacks. As a child abandoned by his mother, Kane later ruthlessly pursues wealth and power, to the point that he does not shun creating a real war in order to increase the interest of the public for his newspaper. In spite of his meticulous investigations, Thompson can not find out what Kane meant by his last word: Rosebud. He concludes that it will remain an enigma forever, but at the end of the film the spectator is given the clue that solves the mystery.