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.