Thompson interviews Kane's estranged best friend, Jedediah Leland, in a retirement home. Kane rose to power by successfully manipulating public opinion regarding the Spanish–American War and marrying Emily Norton, the niece of the President of the United States. Bernstein recalls that Kane hired the best journalists available to build the Inquirer 's circulation. Thompson interviews Kane's personal business manager, Mr. Kane sold his newspaper empire to Thatcher after the 1929 stock market crash left him short of cash. He took control of the New York Inquirer newspaper and embarked on a career of yellow journalism, publishing scandalous articles that attacked Thatcher's (and his own) business interests. When Kane's parents introduced him to Thatcher, the boy struck Thatcher with his sled and attempted to run away.īy the time Kane gained control of his trust at the age of 25, the mine's productivity and Thatcher's prudent investing had made him one of the richest men in the world. While the parents and Thatcher discussed arrangements inside the boarding house, the young Kane played happily with a sled in the snow outside. She hired Thatcher to establish a trust that would provide for Kane's education and to assume guardianship of him. In 1871, gold was discovered through a mining deed belonging to Kane's mother, Mary Kane. Through Thatcher's written memoirs, Thompson learns about Kane's rise from a Colorado boarding house and the decline of his personal fortune.
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Thompson goes to the private archive of the late banker Walter Parks Thatcher. He tries to approach his second wife, Susan Alexander Kane, now an alcoholic who runs her own nightclub, but she refuses to talk to him. Thompson sets out to interview Kane's friends and associates. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel's producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson with discovering the meaning of "Rosebud". A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher and industrial magnate. Holding a snow globe, he utters his last word, "Rosebud", and dies. In a mansion called Xanadu, part of a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. The affair between Kane and Susan Alexander ( Dorothy Comingore) is exposed by his political opponent, Boss Jim W. Citizen Kane was selected by the Library of Congress as an inductee of the 1989 inaugural group of 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1958, the film was voted number 9 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. The film faded from view after its release, but it returned to public attention when it was praised by French critics such as André Bazin and re-released in 1956. Principal photography took place in 1940, the same year its innovative trailer was shown, and the film was released in 1941.Īlthough it was a critical success, Citizen Kane failed to recoup its costs at the box office. Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane, collaborating with Herman J. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Īfter the Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast " The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. Upon its release, Hearst prohibited the film from being mentioned in his newspapers. 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 is praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories and it won for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles. 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial poll of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years . Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. The picture was Welles' first feature film. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.
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