Citizen Kane
A newspaper tycoon dies alone in his unfinished palace, and a reporter is sent to find out what his last word meant. Interviews with the people who knew him assemble a life out of contradictions: the boy sent away, the crusading young publisher, the failed politician, the husband who built an opera house for a wife who could not sing. The American dream as locked room.
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- parallels ↑ Faust, Part One
- influenced by ↑ Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- influenced by ↑ Stagecoach
- ↓ The Death of Artemio Cruz
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