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Citizen Kane 119 minutes, USA (1941), U
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Orson Welles and Jospeh Cotten in Citizen Kane

The world's most acclaimed film. With this inventive account of the life of a media tycoon, the young Orson Welles threw down a challenge to Hollywood from which neither fully recovered.

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Citizen Kane: Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a multi-millionaire property and publishing tycoon, political mover and profligate art collector, dies alone in Xanadu, his vast mansion. A journalist (William Alland) is dispatched to interview Kane's ex-wife and a number of his surviving friends and colleagues to find out more about him and to discover the meaning of his last utterance: 'Rosebud'...
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