Citizen Kane

Resource Information

The work Citizen Kane represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Citizen Kane

Statement of responsibility

an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; direction-production, Orson Welles

Title variation

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

Contributor

• Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969
• Mankiewicz, Herman J., (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953
• Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965
• Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975
• Stewart, Paul, 1908-1986
• Coulouris, George, 1903-1989
• Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
• Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971
• Toland, Gregg
• Warrick, Ruth
• Collins, Ray, 1889-1965
• Alland, William, 1916-1997
• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• RKO Radio Pictures
• Mercury Theatre
• Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974
• Wise, Robert, 1914-2005

Actor

• Coulouris, George, 1903-1989
• Stewart, Paul, 1908-1986
• Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965
• Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971
• Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969
• Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974
• Alland, William, 1916-1997
• Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
• Warrick, Ruth
• Collins, Ray, 1889-1965

Cinematographer

• Toland, Gregg

Editor of moving image work

• Wise, Robert, 1914-2005

Film director

• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985

Film producer

• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985

Production company

• RKO Radio Pictures
• Mercury Theatre

Publisher

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
• Mankiewicz, Herman J., (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953

Subject

• Newspaper publishing
• Newspaper publishing -- United States -- Drama
• Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History -- Drama
• Publishers and publishing
• Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography | Drama
• Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Drama
• Reporters and reporting
• Reporters and reporting -- United States -- Drama
• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Last words -- Drama
• Journalism films
• History
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Feature films -- United States
• Feature films -- United States
• Detective and mystery films
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Last words
• Journalism films

Genre

• Biography
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• History
• Journalism films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• spa
• por
• eng
• fre
• spa
• por
• eng
• eng

Summary

Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man

Member of

• Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
• Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
• Citizen Kane (Motion picture)

Awards note

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Mankiewicz & Welles), 1942

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Photography, Gregg Toland ; editing, Robert Wise ; music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG

Language note

In English, Spanish or Portuguese; with optional French, Spanish or Portugese subtitles; and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris

Runtime

119

Technique

live action