Citizen Kane(1941) Boss Jim W. Gettys Threatens Kane

American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, coscreenwriter, director and star. The picture was Welles s first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), and his mistress, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), shed fragments of light on Kane s life, the reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man s final word, Distributed by RKO pictures.