CITIZEN KANE Film 1941. Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles. Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford and William Alland. | |||
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1 | El Rancho Nightclub | BBB | Nightlife | Clubs | |
El Rancho Nightclub A seedy Atlantic City cabaret where Susan Alexander Kane sits with her head bowed drunkenly on her arms resting on the table. Thompson makes an attempt to interview her, but she will not talk to him. | |||||
2 | Kane Foods | BBB | Food Stores | Grocery Stores | |
Kane Foods | |||||
3 | Mrs Kane's Boarding House | BBB | Travel | Lodging | |
Mrs Kane's Boarding House In 1871, gold was discovered through a mining deed belonging to Kane's mother, Mary Kane. She hired Thatcher to establish a trust that would provide for Kane's education and to assume guardianship of him. While Thatcher and Charles' parents discussed arrangements inside, the young Kane played happily with a sled in the snow outside the boarding-house. When Kane's parents turned him over to Thatcher, the boy struck Thatcher with his sled and attempted to run away. | |||||
4 | New York Inquirer | BBB | Periodicals | Newspapers | |
New York Inquirer Charles Foster Kane's newspaper. | |||||
5 | News on the March | BBB | Television | TV News | |
News on the March Newsreel that begins the movie, and it includes wily duplications of all the March of Time trademarks, including the white-on-black transitional title cards, the wall-to-wall musical score and the bombastic narration. | |||||
6 | Rosebud | BBB | Goods | Sporting Goods | |
Rosebud The sled. It's the old man's sled. | |||||
7 | St. Louis Daily Inquirer | BBB | Periodicals | Newspapers | |
St. Louis Daily Inquirer Charles Foster Kane's newspaper that closes in the first year of the Great Depression. | |||||
8 | Thatcher and Company | BBB | Corporations | Companies | |
Thatcher and Company Mrs. Kane appoints the banking firm of Thatcher and Company to manage all her financial interests, to administer her estate, and to act as trustees of the fortune and guardian of her son. Mr. and Mrs. Kane will each be given $50,000 a year - the rest of the fortune will be placed in a trust fund for Charles until he reaches maturity at age 25, at which time he would come into complete possession. | |||||
9 | Walter Parks Thatcher Memorial Library | BBB | Entertainment | Libraries | |
Walter Parks Thatcher Memorial Library The first flashback sequence is the one framed by Thompson's visit to the Walter Parks Thatcher Memorial Library, there to peruse the unpublished memoirs of Kane's guardian. | |||||
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10 | Xanadu | Map | Structures | Buildings | |
Xanadu Charles Foster Kane's mansion, part of a vast palatial estate in Florida. | |||||
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11 | Charles Foster Kane | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |
Charles Foster Kane Charles Foster Kane: I suppose if I wasn't rich I could have been a great man. | |||||
12 | Charles Foster Kane | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |
Charles Foster Kane Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud. |
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