
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.



