Quarto potere

Titolo originale: Citizen Kane
Regia: Orson Welles
Anno: 1941
Origine: United States of America
Generi: Mistero Dramma
Tag: media tycoon | florida | art collector | newspaper | capitalist | journalist | sleigh | banker | american dream | failure | money | black and white | told in flashback | criterion | snowglobes | kids | serious | based on real person |
Cast: Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore Ray Collins George Coulouris Agnes Moorehead Paul Stewart Ruth Warrick Erskine Sanford William Alland Everett Sloane Fortunio Bonanova Gus Schilling Philip Van Zandt Georgia Backus Harry Shannon Sonny Bupp Buddy Swan Gregg Toland Don Ackerman Gino Corrado Maurice Costello Demetrius Alexis Gene Coogan Art Dupuis Rudy Germane Mike Lally Walter Lawrence John Northpole Victor Romito Bob Terry William Alston Jack Gargan Bert Moorhouse Carmen Laroux Sam Ash Buddy Messinger Terrance Ray Sally Corner Walter Bacon Herbert Corthell Harry A. Bailey Danny Borzage J.J. Clark Tom Coleman Carl Deloro Jack Egan Robert Haines Ludwig Lowry John McCormack Hercules Mendez Paddy O'Flynn Sam Rice Don Roberts Larry Wheat Larry Williams Joan Blair Morgan Brown Harry Burkhardt Edmund Cobb Eddie Coke Louis Natheaux Arthur O'Connell Guy Repp Tom Steele Richard Wilson Louise Currie Walter Sande Jan Wiley Milton Kibbee Buck Mack Alan Ladd Thomas A. Curran Jack Curtis George Noisom Gerald Pierce Dona Dax George DeNormand Bud Geary Bert LeBaron Clyde McAtee Cyril Ring Roland Winters Lew Harvey Herman J. Mankiewicz Eddie Dew Perc Launders John Dilson Walter James Robert Dudley Suzanne Dulier Al Eben Johnny Eckert Carl Ekberg Edith Evanson Carl Faulkner Juanita Fields Edna Mae Jones Leda Nicova Jolane Reynolds Suzanne Ridgway Olin Francis Louise Franklin Renee Godfrey Peter Gowland Jimmy Grant Jesse Graves Ernest Grooney Jack Gwynne Teddy Mangean Henry Hebert Bryan 'Slim' Hightower Mitchell Ingraham Philip Morris Francis Sayles George W. Jimenez Ellen Lowe James T. Mack Mickey Martin Bruce Sidney Major McBride Frank McLure Charles Meakin Edward Peil Jr. Irving Mitchell Frances E. Neal Lillian Nicholson Joseph North William H. O'Brien Field Norton Dick Scott Frank O'Connor Russ Powell Bert Stevens Thomas Pogue Lillian O'Malley Jack Raymond Gohr Van Vleck Myrtle Rishell Benny Rubin Shimen Ruskin George Sherwood Edward Ryan Landers Stevens Harry J. Vejar Tudor Williams Arthur Yeoman Tim Davis Charles Bennett Arthur Kay John Alban Finn Zirzow Sam Harris Dorothy Cleveland

Alla morte del magnate Kane (Welles), un giornalista (Cotten) indaga sulla sua vita: dalla sua infanzia alla sua ascesa nel mondo della stampa e della finanza, alla sua storia d'amore con una cantante lirica mancata alla solitaria fine nella lussuosa e sconfinata tenuta di Xanadu.

Errori

During the picnic, Susan clearly tightens her face muscles and turns her head before Kane slaps her [...]	D
At the party scene where Kane dances with the girls, there are several shots of his reflection in t [...]	D
The jigsaw puzzle that Susan is putting together changes considerably between the shot where Kane w [...]	D
When Jim Gettys reveals Kane's mistress to his wife, Gettys shouts to Kane, "We've got proof! It wi [...]	D
During the picnic scene towards the end, Welles had to shoot against a back-projection because a lo [...]	D
The Russian newspaper lists Charles's first initial as C. In Russian, that letter is pronounced S. [...]	D
At party to celebrate the new staff members, in the "front row" from left-to-right, men in position [...]	D
After Kane's mother signs the contract for Thatcher, she stands up and seems to walk through the ta [...]	D
In the aquarium, a wire holding the 'octopus' is visible.	D
The Russian newspaper "Bednota," featured in the movie's opening newsreel, had been merged with "So [...]	D
When Kane is talking to drunk Leland, he puts his right hand in the pocket. In the next shot, after [...]	D
When Susan Alexander Kane tells Kane that she's leaving him once and for all, Kane has a mustache. [...]	D
When Kane's second wife is recounting the moment she left him, the suitcase that is open on the bed [...]	D
When Susan Alexander Kane is doing the jigsaw puzzle by the fireplace, in the first wide shot it's [...]	D
At the very beginning of Raymond's flashback, the large bird in the foreground has no eye... it's a [...]	D
In the opening newsreel montage, the first time the name of Kane's second wife is shown, her name i [...]	D
The long dolly shot from outside the Kane house in Colorado and all the way back inside through two [...]	D
When the photographer at the party snaps the photograph of the former-Chronicle-now-Inquirer report [...]	D
One of the posters advertising Susan Alexander's opera appearance shown in the newsreel misspells h [...]	D
When Kane hovers over Jed Leland's unconscious form after Susan's horrible opera debut, the paper i [...]	D
Joseph Cotten, Erskine Sanford, and Gus Schilling are clearly visible as newsreel reporters in the [...]	D
In the projection room after the NEWS ON THE MARCH reel, Joseph Cotten can clearly be heard saying. [...]	D
The first time the backstage preparations are seen before Susan sings, the shadow of the curtain ri [...]	D
When Kane shouts at Jim Gettys from the stairwell, it is clear that most of the words he is saying [...]	D
When Kane returns from Europe, he enters the Inquirer news room and rushes towards the camera, whic [...]	D
At the first time on the opera house stage, just before Susan begins to sing, two men pass carrying [...]	D
When Susan is reading the news about her debut, the front page is displayed prominently. While the [...]	D
The eyes of the shrieking bird can be seen through to the scenery behind it.	D
When Kane is performing his "rooster" as a shadow show to Susan, his hands are not in the position [...]	D
The large sofa (with a table behind) moves between the shot where Kane sits down in the armchair (w [...]	D
At the end of her interview with the reporter Thompson, Susan Alexander Kane says, "Come around som [...]	D
In the newsreel sequence, a gazette in Spanish is shown, announcing Kane's death. The newspaper's n [...]	D
During the breakfast table sequence, Kane refers to the President as Emily's "Uncle John." There we [...]	D
In the newsreel, the announcer states how a defaulting boarder had left the deed to a supposedly wo [...]	D
When Mr. Thatcher has Mrs. Kane sign the contract at Mrs. Kane's Boarding House, Mrs. Kane goes ove [...]	D
When Kane and Thatcher are having a heated discussion in the newspaper office, they both suddenly s [...]	D
There is a camera shadow on the large doors to the Thatcher vault as Thompson enters.	D
At the moment Mr. Bernstein meets the old newspaper publisher Mr. Carter and shakes his hand it is [...]	D
When Thompson is speaking to the waiter from the phone booth, the sound of the camera is audible. [...]	D
In the first flashback, when Thatcher is going through the series of newspapers, two of them ('Trac [...]	D
When Leland and Bernstein are inspecting Kane's art purchases, Leland moves a statue which wobbles [...]	D
In the first shots of the Breakfast table sequence, Emily's dress covers her shoulder in long shots [...]	D
In the beginning, Kane says, "Rosebud." The nurse enters the room after the word is spoken. The sho [...]	D
While standing at the large fireplace, Kane says to Susan, "I don't care to visit New York." The vi [...]	D