Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
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The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
Citizen Kane: Directed by Orson Welles. With Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick. Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Dec 27, 2022 · One of the best film in film history. !!!! Subject: Rosebud! Hmmm... it isn't a re-watchable film for me, it seems once the mystery is solved, and anyone who has watched any amount of television already knows what rosebud means. (In that respect, I think for me it was ruined.)
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who...
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Kane's political career was cut short due to a love scandal, & in his late years, he was alone, unloved and abandoned. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel's producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson (William Alland) with discovering the meaning of "Rosebud".
Citizen Kane (en España y la mayor parte de Hispanoamérica, Ciudadano Kane; en Argentina y en Uruguay, El ciudadano; en México, El ciudadano Kane) 1 es una película dramática estadounidense de 1941, dirigida, producida y protagonizada por Orson Welles; escrita por este y Herman J. Mankiewicz.
May 24, 1998 · “Citizen Kane” covers the rise of the penny press (here Joseph Pulitzer is the model), the Hearst-supported Spanish-American War, the birth of radio, the power of political machines, the rise of fascism, the growth of celebrity journalism.
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Apr 28, 1991 · But he was having trouble getting it released. "Citizen Kane" told the story of an aging press tycoon whose arrogance had alienated him from everyone who loved him, and who had died alone inside the vast gothic pile of his lonely castle in Florida.
Citizen Kane. In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie.
