Citizen Kane trailer
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The Citizen Kane trailer is a four-minute, self-contained, "making of" promotional short film by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, released in 1940 to promote the film Citizen Kane. Unlike other s
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Ray Collins
Dorothy Comingore
Joseph Cotten
Citizen Kane
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographic
Citizen Kane trailer
…is a four-minute, self-contained, "making of" promotional short film by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, released in 1940 to promote the film Citizen Kane. Unlike other standard theatrical trailers of the era, it did not feature any footage of the actual film itself, but was a wholly original pseudo-documentary…
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