Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- media tycoon
- florida
- art collector
- newspaper
- capitalist
- journalist
- sleigh
- banker
- american dream
- failure
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cotten
Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore
Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins
Jim W. Gettys
- George Coulouris — Walter Parks Thatcher
- Agnes Moorehead — Mary Kane
- Paul Stewart — Raymond
- Ruth Warrick — Emily Norton Kane
- Erskine Sanford — Herbert Carter
- William Alland — Jerry Thompson/Narrator
- Everett Sloane — Mr. Bernstein
- Fortunio Bonanova — Signor Matiste
- Gus Schilling — John
- Philip Van Zandt — Mr. Rawlston
- Georgia Backus — Bertha Anderson
- Directed
- Orson Welles
- Written
- Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Production
- Studio
- Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
