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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.

Wide screen.

Special features: separate commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich; interview with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise; Opening: world premier of Citizen Kane; still photography with commentary by Roger Ebert and More.

Music composed by Bernard Herrmann ; edited by Robert Wise ; photographed by Gregg Toland.

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead.

Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.

Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy recluse, dies in his castle-like estate, Xanadu. The dying word on the lips of the newspaper tycoon who dominated four decades of American life is "Rosebud." A newsreel company assigns a reporter to learn why and to dig out the man behind the man. From various sources, Kane's life unfolds: his rise by taking a broken down newspaper he has inherited and, with two friends, Jedediah Leland and Bernstein, building it into a publishing empire; his marriage to Emily Norton, the niece of a U.S. president, that breaks down as he aspires to political power; the scandal after he becomes involved with an untalented singer, Susan Alexander, whom he later marries and tries unsuccessfully to turn into an opera star; retiring finally to a secluded life in Xanadu. Susan gets bored and leaves him alone and friendless. As his worldly goods are being disposed of, a child's sled bearing the word "Rosebud" is tossed unnoticed into the furnace.

MPAA rating: PG,CHV rating: G.

DVD.

English or Spanish dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).