Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographica
Theatrical release poster (Style B) by William Rose
Favored to win election as governor, Kane makes a campaign speech at Madison Square Garden.
The affair between Kane and Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore) is exposed by his political opponent, Boss Jim W. Gettys (Ray Collins).
Harry Shannon, George Coulouris and Agnes Moorehead
"Raising Kane" is a 1971 book-length essay by American film critic Pauline Kael, in which she revived controversy over the authorship of the screenplay for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. Kael celebrated
The Citizen Kane Book (1971), first book publication of Pauline Kael's "Raising Kane"