Citizen Kane (1941) - Original Trailer

Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane. They tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life, but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.

Directed by: Orson Welles.

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore, George Coulouris, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead, Erskine Sanford, Paul Stewart, Orson Welles.

Release Date: May 1, 1941.

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  Film & Animation

[tubage07]

Orson's unique sensibility comes through in this trailer. It's very unusual, and has a strange sort of energy.

I love the way he says "a swell guy" and "a dirty dog".

[Conor McCauley]

Actually if you watch the film carefully, during the interview of the butler he says how he was with Charles Foster Kane when he died and heard him say "Rosebud," so no its not senseless

[Richard Canipe]

still the greatest film of all time and ranked #1 by the AFI!

[NitrosNova]

I don't see how a film, an inanimate object, can have a sexual preference, or even show traces of having a gender.

[Gutgulper]

Cool!!! Whens it coming out?

[Dylaneggs]

By the way, I'm not saying that visuals aren't good, they can be amazing without any CGI and this movie proves that. Orson did the amazing artistic visuals in this completely by his vision and hard work, true this is unfair to say given the limitations of that time, but even today I bet he wouldn't take the computer generated way out. Taking appeal away from the story and using explosions and senseless action as a scapegoat is what's at fault here, coughMichealcoughBaycough

[Dylaneggs]

From a time when movies were all about the diolouge and emotional value, making points and putting them into contrast if you will. Not 3D and special effects that's just eye candy.

[Dylaneggs]

You have no idea how angry you just made me.

[pylgrym]

Two words: Linwood Dunn!