Citizen Kane (1941)
With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Dorothy Comingore
Directed by Orson Welles
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and 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, and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
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