| Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, a powerful newspaper tycoon whose idealism was corrupted as he rose to enormous wealth and power. He was taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical and self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. The story unfolds as a mystery: when Mr. Kane dies uttering cryptic last words, a magazine reporter interviews the tycoon's friends in an effort to uncover the significance of the word "Rosebud." Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. |
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