The newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, one of the richest and most powerful men in America if not the world, dies. A newspaperman digs into his past seeking the meaning of his enigmatic last word: “Rosebud.” He finds evidence of a child torn away from his family to serve Mammon. Grown into manhood, Charles Foster Kane becomes a newspaperman to indulge his idealism.

• Citizen Kane
• Orson Welles
• Joseph Cotten
• Dorothy Comingore
• Everett Sloane
• Ray Collins
• George Coulouris
• Agnes Moorehead
• Paul Stewart
• Ruth Warrick
• Erskine Sanford
• William Alland