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.
Cast
- Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland
- Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane
- Ray Collins as Jim W. Gettys
- George Coulouris as Walter Parks Thatcher
- Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane
- Paul Stewart as Raymond
- Ruth Warrick as Emily Norton Kane
- Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter
- William Alland as Jerry Thompson/Narrator