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.

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Dialogue Timeline — 1,492 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:24 Rosebud.
00:07:53 Won the election to one American president at least.
00:12:01 That's it.
00:15:27 Hello, I want New York City.
00:19:34 ...and thereafter to the survivor.
00:22:44 ...a list of your holdings, extensively cross-indexed.
00:26:16 "...the said Charles Foster Kane...
00:30:11 I thought maybe somebody ought to.
00:34:15 You're the dramatic critic, Leland.
00:37:33 -Yes. -Go down and tell them.
00:42:17 "Now is it, Joe, no, no, no"
00:45:58 Miss Emily Norton was no rosebud.
00:49:34 After the first couple of months...
00:53:46 I said, if you wanted some hot water...
00:57:19 No, that's all gone.
01:02:42 I'm Jim Gettys.
01:06:32 I'm Charles Foster Kane!
01:11:41 -There's nothing left for me to do-- -All right, you can go to Chicago.
01:18:26 Mr. Kane's finishing your review just the way you started it.
01:23:14 Please. Let's come back.
01:29:47 Declaration of Principles.
01:36:49 You may be right.
01:41:23 Not what it means to me.
01:48:32 Put all this stuff together:

Cast & Characters

Orson Welles Kane Joseph Cotten Jedediah Leland Joseph Cotten Screening Room Reporter Dorothy Comingore Susan Alexander Kane Agnes Moorehead Mary Kane Ruth Warrick Emily Monroe Norton Kane Ray Collins James W. Gettys Erskine Sanford Herbert Carter Erskine Sanford Screening Room Reporter Everett Sloane Mr. Bernstein William Alland Jerry Thompson Paul Stewart Raymond

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,492
Dialogue density12.5 lines / min
First line00:02:24
Final line01:48:32

Production Record

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