Citizen Kane

The Lincoln Theatre presents Citizen Kane as part of our Spectacular, Spectacular Visually Stunning Film Series on Saturday, August 19 at 7:30 PM. The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25!), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script (and also with an uncredited John Houseman), and with Gregg Toland as his talented cinematographer. When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's 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, and his mistress, Susan Alexander, shed fragments of light on Kane's life, the reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man's final word, "Rosebud." Get more information and tickets at www.lincolntheatre.org or by visiting or calling the Lincoln Theatre Box Office, open M-F 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM at 712 S 1^st St. in downtown Mount Vernon, 360-336-8955.