Citizen Kane (1941): 85 Years Later

Citizen Kane (1941): 85 Years Later When Citizen Kane was released in 1941, no one in the cast thought that the 119-minute black-and-white film would later be regarded as the greatest cinematic work in American history for more than eight decades. Eighty-five years have passed, and almost all the people who once stood under the lights of Citizen Kane now remain only in graveyards, ashes, and the memories of classic Hollywood that many generations of American audiences have never forgotten. The first figure is Orson Welles, the man who was only 25 years old in 1941 but simultaneously directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred as Charles Foster Kane