A newspaper tycoon dies alone in a house full of things he bought, and a reporter tries to work out what his last word meant. Everyone remembers a different man and none of the versions quite fit together.
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- Subjective avg 3.5
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- Story & Writing avg 4.5
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- Cinematography avg 5
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- Directing avg 5
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- Compared to everything avg 4.5
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IMDb
8/10
Letterboxd
4.5★
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Rotten Tomatoes
4.0★
TMDB
8.5/10
Trakt
8/10
Metacritic (user)
8/10
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80.0%
Cast
Key crew
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Writing
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland
- Music
- Bernard Herrmann
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