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.

Frasi

Stagecoach Driver / Hauler: There ain't no bedro [...]	D
Kane, age eight: [talking about snowman] Maybe I [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: There's a lot of statues in Europ [...]	D
Walter Parks Thatcher: [Quoting from Kane's lett [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Sentimental fellow, aren't you? [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Well, I always gagged on th [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot [...]	D
The Headwaiter: [Susan coughs as she sits at the [...]	D
[last lines] Raymond: Throw that junk in.	D
Charles Foster Kane: Don't worry about me, Getty [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: You're right, I did lose a [...]	D
Jerry Thompson: He made an awful lot of money. [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Hello, Jedediah. Jedediah [...]	D
Susan Alexander Kane: Well what do you know? It' [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Don't believe everything yo [...]	D
[first lines] Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud... [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, here's a three- [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: You still eating? Charles Fost [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: As Charles Foster Kane who [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: [to Thatcher] The trouble i [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: I suppose he had a private sort [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: The news goes on for 24 hou [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Read the cable. Mr. Bernst [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: We never lost as much as we made. [...]	D
Rawlson: It isn't enough to tell us what a man d [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: We have no secrets from our [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell [...]	D
Kane's Father: A good whuppin's all the kid real [...]	D
Susan Alexander Kane: I don't know many people. [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane III: Mother, is Pop governor [...]	D
Boss Jim Gettys: You're the greatest fool I've e [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, M [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: You never should have marri [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: You don't care about anything e [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: A toast, Jedediah: to Love [...]	D
Newsreel Narrator: [at beginning of news reel on [...]	D
[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan' [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: You can't buy a bag of pean [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt [...]	D
Susan Alexander Kane: Forty-nine thousand acres [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: [to Leland] Mr. Kane is finishing [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: I don't think there's one w [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: I can remember everything. That [...]	D
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Really Charles, people [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Who's the busiest man? Me? I've g [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: This gentleman was saying.. [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: I don't know how to run a n [...]	D
[Susan is leaving Kane] Charles Foster Kane: [p [...]	D
Female reporter: If you could've found out what [...]	D
Susan Alexander Kane: Love! You don't love anybo [...]	D
Matiste: [to Susan] Some people can sing, some p [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: [about Kane's "Declaration of P [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: [about Charles Kane] I suppose [...]	D
Walter Parks Thatcher: You're too old to be call [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: I run a couple of newspaper [...]	D
Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel: Mr. Kane, how did [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: Isn't it wonderful? Such a party. [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: [His answer to being blackm [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: Are we going to declare war [...]	D
Jedediah Leland: That's all he ever wanted out o [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of t [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Thatcher, if [...]	D
Reporter 1: What's that? Reporter 2: Another Ve [...]	D
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the p [...]	D