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Citizen Kane

Movie·1941·Mystery, Drama·1h 59m·8.0 (6,073)·Directed by Orson Welles

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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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Orson WellesOrson WellesCharles Foster KaneJoseph CottenJoseph CottenJedediah LelandDorothy ComingoreDorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander KaneRay CollinsRay CollinsJim W. GettysGeorge CoulourisGeorge CoulourisWalter Parks ThatcherAgnes MooreheadAgnes MooreheadMary KanePaul StewartPaul StewartRaymondRuth WarrickRuth WarrickEmily Norton Kane

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