Citizen Kane (1941)

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

Stars:

Orson Welles (Charles Foster Kane), Joseph Cotten (Jedediah Leland), Dorothy Comingore (Susan Alexander Kane), Ray Collins (Jim W. Gettys), George Coulouris (Walter Parks Thatcher), Agnes Moorehead (Mary Kane)