Citizen Kane(1941)
Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
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.
Movie: Citizen Kane
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Charles Foster Kane
Jedediah Leland
Susan Alexander Kane
Jim W. Gettys
Walter Parks Thatcher
Mary Kane
Raymond
Emily Norton Kane
Herbert Carter
Jerry Thompson/Narrator
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