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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery
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Release:
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Director:
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Orson Welles
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Actors:
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Harry Shannon,
Fortunio Bonanova,
Ruth Warrick,
Gus Schilling,
Georgia Backus,
Dorothy Comingore,
William Alland,
Joseph Cotten,
Agnes Moorehead,
Ray Collins,
Erskine Sanford,
Everett Sloane,
Paul Stewart,
George Coulouris,
Philip Van Zandt
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Duration:
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114 min.
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Rating:
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(8.6/10)103.5
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Plot Summary:
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Enigmatic newspaper magnate Charles Rear Kane (Orson Welles) rises, falls and leaves behind a riddle with his dying breath.
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Tags:
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Classic.
I really don't know where to start with this film as I was in awe all the way through. If you are like me and have never really been a favourite of the old classics watch this film.
It appears in all the top 10's around the world as a masterpiece and it truly is. Orson Welles gives a tremendous performance as Kane and the supporting cast do wonders considering this film was made by virtual amatuers.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ? pah !!! Citizen Kane for me everytime.
Citizen Kane
The world's most acclaimed film. With this inventive account of the life of a media tycoon, the young Orson Welles threw down a challenge to Hollywood from which neither fully recovered.
Charles Foster Kane (Welles), a multi-millionaire property and publishing tycoon, political mover and profligate art collector, dies alone in Xanadu, his vast mansion. A journalist (Alland) is dispatched to interview Kane's ex-wife and a number of his surviving friends and colleagues to find out more about him and to discover the meaning of his last utterance: 'Rosebud'.
Welles embarked on his doomed love affair with Hollywood when he arrived on the West Coast as a 25-year-old who had already established himself as a prodigiously gifted performer, director and producer on st...
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