Citizen Kane
1941 · 119 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 478,563 VOTES · DIR. Orson Welles
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
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 line495:00:00
Production Record
DirectorOrson Welles
LanguageEnglish
Budget$839,727
Revenue$23,218,000
IMDb votes478,563