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.
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Crew
DirectorOrson Welles
WriterOrson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast
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
Harry Shannon
Jim Kane
Sonny Bupp
Charles Foster Kane III
Buddy Swan
Young Charles Foster Kane
Gregg Toland
Interviewer
Don Ackerman
Man at Party in Everglades (uncredited)
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Keywords
media tycoonfloridaart collectornewspapercapitalistjournalistsleighbankeramerican dreamfailuremoneyblack and whitetold in flashbacksnowglobeskidsbased on real person
Details
Budget
$1M
Revenue
$23M
TMDb Votes
6,032
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026