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.

• Mercury Productions
• RKO Radio Pictures
• Orson Welles
• Joseph Cotten
• Dorothy Comingore
• Ray Collins
• George Coulouris
• Agnes Moorehead
• Paul Stewart
• Ruth Warrick