Citizen Kane

     

Citizen Kane1941

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 119 minutes

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: peopl… more »


Thatcher's secretary:
[Quoting from Kane's letter] "Sorry, but I'm not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate. One item"—

Walter Parks Thatcher:
Nonsense! [snatches the letter] Now see: "One item on your list intrigues me: the New York Inquirer, a little newspaper I understand we acquired in a foreclosure proceeding. Please don't sell it. I'm coming back to America to take charge. I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." [repeating] "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper!"

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