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