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 | 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 th [...] D
The jigsaw puzzle that Susan is putting together changes considerably between the shot where Kane wa [...] D
When Jim Gettys reveals Kane's mistress to his wife, Gettys shouts to Kane, "We've got proof! It wil [...] D
During the picnic scene towards the end, Welles had to shoot against a back-projection because a loc [...] D
The Russian newspaper lists Charles's first initial as C. In Russian, that letter is pronounced S. T [...] D
At party to celebrate the new staff members, in the "front row" from left-to-right, men in positions [...] D
After Kane's mother signs the contract for Thatcher, she stands up and seems to walk through the tab [...] 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 "Soc [...] 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. A [...] 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 c [...] D
At the very beginning of Raymond's flashback, the large bird in the foreground has no eye... it's an [...] D
In the opening newsreel montage, the first time the name of Kane's second wife is shown, her name is [...] 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 reporte [...] D
One of the posters advertising Susan Alexander's opera appearance shown in the newsreel misspells he [...] D
When Kane hovers over Jed Leland's unconscious form after Susan's horrible opera debut, the paper in [...] D
Joseph Cotten, Erskine Sanford, and Gus Schilling are clearly visible as newsreel reporters in the f [...] 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 ris [...] D
When Kane shouts at Jim Gettys from the stairwell, it is clear that most of the words he is saying a [...] D
When Kane returns from Europe, he enters the Inquirer news room and rushes towards the camera, which [...] 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 f [...] 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 t [...] D
The large sofa (with a table behind) moves between the shot where Kane sits down in the armchair (wh [...] D
At the end of her interview with the reporter Thompson, Susan Alexander Kane says, "Come around some [...] D
In the newsreel sequence, a gazette in Spanish is shown, announcing Kane's death. The newspaper's na [...] D
During the breakfast table sequence, Kane refers to the President as Emily's "Uncle John." There wer [...] D
In the newsreel, the announcer states how a defaulting boarder had left the deed to a supposedly wor [...] D
When Mr. Thatcher has Mrs. Kane sign the contract at Mrs. Kane's Boarding House, Mrs. Kane goes over [...] D
When Kane and Thatcher are having a heated discussion in the newspaper office, they both suddenly st [...] 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 v [...] 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 ('Tract [...] D
When Leland and Bernstein are inspecting Kane's art purchases, Leland moves a statue which wobbles t [...] 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 shoo [...] D
While standing at the large fireplace, Kane says to Susan, "I don't care to visit New York." The vid [...] D