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Citizen Kane
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama and mystery film directed by Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and John Houseman, with Welles also serving as producer. The cast includes Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, and Everett Sloane. Gregg Toland served as director of photography, while Robert Wise edited the film. Bernard Herrmann composed the score. The production involved RKO Pictures and Mercury Productions.
The narrative is set in New York City and Florida, with filming locations in San Diego and Malibu. The movie has a runtime of 119 minutes. It received the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. It also won National Board of Review Awards for Top Ten Films and Best Film. The film has a vote average of 7.976 and an IMDb rating of 8.2.
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8.0Newspaper 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.
Cast
- Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland
- Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane
- Ray Collins as Jim W. Gettys
- George Coulouris as Walter Parks Thatcher
- Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane
Themes
- media tycoon
- florida
- art collector
- newspaper
- capitalist
- journalist
- sleigh
- banker
- american dream
- failure
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- mystery film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Screenwriter
- Orson Welles
- Cast member
- Georgia Backus
- Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Production company
- RKO Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Gregg Toland
- Narrative location
- Florida
- Filming location
- Malibu
- Duration
- 119
- FilmAffinity ID
- 615891
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www2.warnerbros.com/citizenkane
- Image
- Citizen Kane poster, 1941 (Style A).jpg
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- Commons category
- Citizen Kane
- publication date
- 1941-00-00
- film editor
- Robert Wise
- topic's main category
- Category:Citizen Kane
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- Citizen Kane
- title
- Citizen Kane
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
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- black-and-white
- production designer
- Van Nest Polglase
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- first line
- Rosebud...
- costume designer
- Edward Stevenson
- capital cost
- 839727
- review score
- 4.2/5
- described at URL
- www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/02/20/raising-kane-i
- characters
- Charles Foster Kane
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed and produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
After the Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege. Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane with Herman J. Mankiewicz. Principal photography took place in 1940, the same year that its innovative trailer was shown, and the film was released in 1941.
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