Citizen Kane

1941 · 119 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 478,563 VOTES · DIR. Orson Welles

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,492 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:24 Rosebud.
00:07:57 Spoke for millions of Americans.
00:12:08 -Seventy years in a man's life. -That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel.
00:15:45 This is Thompson. Let me talk to the chief.
00:20:00 ...he is to come into complete possession.
00:23:07 "l think it would be fun to run a newspaper."
00:26:49 You were always too old.
00:31:02 Thatcher never did figure him out. Sometimes even I couldn't.
00:34:53 It says she's missing. The neighbors are getting suspicious.
00:38:55 Tonight, six years later, I got my candy, all of it.
00:43:24 -l got a cable here from Mr. Kane. -What?
00:47:03 ...he's at the Huntington Memorial Hospital on 180th Street.
00:50:46 Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood.
00:55:14 -It's supposed to be a rooster. -A rooster!
00:59:12 Now l can afford to make some promises.
01:04:13 What story?
01:09:35 It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
01:15:07 -Where is he? -Right in there, Mr. Kane.
01:20:54 I'm coming.
01:27:08 "Ces feux fatals"
01:34:02 It's their loss.
01:39:33 Mr. Kane?
01:47:20 We're leaving tonight...
495:00:00 But look who's working for the Chronicle.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,492
Dialogue density12.5 lines / min
First line00:02:24
Final line495:00:00

Production Record

DirectorOrson Welles
LanguageEnglish
Budget$839,727
Revenue$23,218,000
IMDb votes478,563