Citizen Kane

~Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

Overview

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.

Genres

General Information

Release Date: 1941-04-17
Budget: $839727
Revenue: $23218000
Runtime: 119 min

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