Citizen Kane

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.

Director

Orson Welles

Screenplay

Orson Welles

Screenplay

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Producer

Orson Welles

Original Music Composer

Bernard Herrmann

Director of Photography

Gregg Toland