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Citizen Kane

1941 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary

8/10

Rating

119 min

Runtime

1941

Release Year

Orson Welles

Director

Cast

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris

Quick Synopsis

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.

Full Plot Summary of 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.

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