Citizen Kane

Orson Welles classic, in which he stars as a newspaper tycoon who falls in love with showgirl Dorothy Comingore, set the mark for all other movies with its style, camera work, dialogue (Welles and Herman Mankiewicz won an Oscar for the script) and cast as well as being a tantalising investigation of the American dream and nightmare. With Joseph Cotton, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorhead. Screening as a follow-up to last month's The 100 Greatest Films on Channel 4, In his film debut, the 25-year-old Orson Welles created an enduring masterpiece in Citizen Kane, an innovative, cinematic character study. The story unfolds in flashbacks as a reporter researches the life of the wealthy and powerful newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane.