Citizen Kane

1941 · directed by Orson Welles

Rating

100/100

Hit

yes

Prestige lists

AFI 100, BFI Top 100, TSPDT 250, NFR

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.

Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles, rates 100/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Orson Welles
• Joseph Cotten
• Dorothy Comingore
• Ray Collins
• George Coulouris
• Agnes Moorehead
• Paul Stewart
• Ruth Warrick
• Erskine Sanford
• William Alland

Crew

• Gregg Toland — Director of Photography
• Robert Wise — Editor
• Bernard Herrmann — Original Music Composer
• Herman J. Mankiewicz — Screenplay
• Orson Welles — Screenplay

More from Orson Welles

1. Touch of Evil (1958) — 91/100 · hit
2. Chimes at Midnight (1965) — 82/100 · hit
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) — 81/100 · hit
4. F for Fake (1973) — 80/100 · hit
5. Othello (1951) — 80/100 · hit
6. The Trial (1962) — 79/100

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