INTRODUCTION Yes. This is where I'm starting, right at the top. It's been lauded, analyzed, and lauded even more after further analysis. Critics raved, it's own posters proclaimed "It's Terrific," it has been called the best movie ever made. But here, I'm not going to discuss the meaning of Rosebud or sit Mr. Kane down on Freud's couch. I'm going to tell you, it's a spectacular film that I think the modern public will sleep through. THE REVIEW It features all the marks of a fantastic film. The tale being told is that of the rise and fall of newspaper tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, and the mystery of his last word, "Rosebud." Orson Welles is a superb director, he is able to pull the best performances out of his cast, the crowning jewel being his own. He is his character, he is Kane. That I feel was the gift of Orson Welles, he could become the character he played. The script he and Herman J. Mankiewicz co-wrote deserve
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