1 00:02:32,306 --> 00:02:33,933 Rosebud. 2 00:03:12,304 --> 00:03:14,306 News on the March. 3 00:03:33,826 --> 00:03:35,828 Legendary was the Xanadu 4 00:03:35,995 --> 00:03:39,498 where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome. 5 00:03:39,665 --> 00:03:43,127 Today, almost as legendary, is Florida's Xanadu 6 00:03:43,294 --> 00:03:46,255 the world's largest private pleasure ground. 7 00:03:48,549 --> 00:03:51,719 Here on the deserts of the Gulf Coast, a private mountain 8 00:03:51,886 --> 00:03:53,986 was commissioned and successfully built. 9 00:03:54,096 --> 00:03:57,266 One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble 10 00:03:57,433 --> 00:04:00,019 are the ingredients of Xanadu's mountain. 11 00:04:01,061 --> 00:04:03,439 Contents of Xanadu's palace: 12 00:04:03,606 --> 00:04:07,735 Paintings, pictures, statues, various stones of other palaces. 13 00:04:08,152 --> 00:04:09,945 A collection of everything. 14 00:04:10,112 --> 00:04:13,282 So big it can never be cataloged or appraised. 15 00:04:13,449 --> 00:04:17,286 Enough for 10 museums, the loot of the world. 16 00:04:20,873 --> 00:04:22,833 Xanadu's livestock 17 00:04:23,876 --> 00:04:29,381 the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and jungle 18 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:33,969 two of each, the biggest private zoo since Noah. 19 00:04:34,887 --> 00:04:36,722 Like the pharaohs 20 00:04:36,889 --> 00:04:40,851 Xanadu's landlord leaves many stones to mark his grave. 21 00:04:42,061 --> 00:04:43,896 Since the pyramids 22 00:04:44,146 --> 00:04:46,774 Xanadu is the costliest monument 23 00:04:46,941 --> 00:04:49,360 a man has built to himself. 24 00:05:02,414 --> 00:05:05,042 Here in Xanadu last week 25 00:05:05,209 --> 00:05:08,295 Xanadu's landlord was laid to rest. 26 00:05:08,629 --> 00:05:11,340 A potent figure of our century 27 00:05:11,507 --> 00:05:13,634 America's Kubla Khan: 28 00:05:14,093 --> 00:05:15,928 Charles Foster Kane. 29 00:05:43,163 --> 00:05:48,419 Its humble beginnings, in this ramshackle building, a dying daily. 30 00:05:48,586 --> 00:05:51,005 Kane's empire, in its glory 31 00:05:51,171 --> 00:05:55,301 held dominion over 37 newspapers, two syndicates 32 00:05:55,509 --> 00:06:00,055 a radio network, an empire upon an empire. 33 00:06:00,222 --> 00:06:03,976 The first of grocery stores, paper mills 34 00:06:04,143 --> 00:06:09,732 apartment buildings, factories, forests, ocean liners. 35 00:06:09,899 --> 00:06:13,152 An empire through which for 50 years 36 00:06:13,319 --> 00:06:15,738 flowed in an unending stream 37 00:06:15,988 --> 00:06:19,241 the wealth of the Earth's third richest gold mine. 38 00:06:20,159 --> 00:06:23,746 Famed in American legend is the origin of the Kane fortune. 39 00:06:23,913 --> 00:06:29,418 How, to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane, by a defaulting boarder, in 1868 40 00:06:29,585 --> 00:06:33,339 was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mineshaft: 41 00:06:33,505 --> 00:06:36,550 The Colorado Lode. 42 00:06:36,717 --> 00:06:40,804 Fifty-seven years later, before a congressional investigation 43 00:06:40,971 --> 00:06:44,350 Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of Wall Street, 44 00:06:44,516 --> 00:06:48,145 for years chief target of Kane papers' attacks on trusts 45 00:06:48,312 --> 00:06:50,606 recalls a journey he made as a youth. 46 00:06:50,773 --> 00:06:54,109 My firm had been appointed trustee by Mrs. Kane, 47 00:06:54,276 --> 00:06:56,528 for a large fortune she recently acquired. 48 00:06:56,695 --> 00:07:00,950 It was her wish that I take charge of this boy, Charles Foster Kane. 49 00:07:01,116 --> 00:07:05,537 Chief, is it not, that on this occasion, Charles Foster Kane 50 00:07:05,704 --> 00:07:09,667 personally attacked you after striking you in the stomach with a sled? 51 00:07:11,043 --> 00:07:13,879 I shall read to the committee a prepared statement 52 00:07:14,046 --> 00:07:19,510 which I have brought with me, and then refuse to answer questions. 53 00:07:19,969 --> 00:07:23,263 Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, 54 00:07:23,430 --> 00:07:26,433 and by the dangerous manner he has persistently attacked 55 00:07:26,517 --> 00:07:28,717 American traditions of private property 56 00:07:28,852 --> 00:07:31,187 initiative and opportunity for advancement 57 00:07:31,271 --> 00:07:35,109 is, in fact, nothing more or less than a communist. 58 00:07:35,275 --> 00:07:37,695 That same month in Union Square... 59 00:07:37,861 --> 00:07:40,406 The words "Charles Foster Kane" 60 00:07:40,572 --> 00:07:44,076 are a menace to every workingman in this land. 61 00:07:44,410 --> 00:07:49,748 He is today what he has always been and always will be: A fascist. 62 00:07:50,124 --> 00:07:51,625 And still another opinion... 63 00:08:09,101 --> 00:08:12,604 Kane urged his country's entry into one war 64 00:08:12,813 --> 00:08:15,441 opposed participation in another. 65 00:08:15,691 --> 00:08:19,486 Swung the election to one American president at least. 66 00:08:19,695 --> 00:08:22,948 Spoke for millions of Americans. 67 00:08:23,282 --> 00:08:25,909 Was hated by as many more. 68 00:08:26,243 --> 00:08:29,788 For 40 years appeared in Kane newsprint 69 00:08:30,039 --> 00:08:34,376 no public issue on which Kane papers took no stand. 70 00:08:34,793 --> 00:08:40,090 No public man whom Kane himself did not support or denounce. 71 00:08:40,257 --> 00:08:44,261 Often support, then denounce. 72 00:08:52,561 --> 00:08:55,981 Twice married, twice divorced. 73 00:08:56,315 --> 00:08:58,525 First to a president's niece 74 00:08:58,692 --> 00:09:01,779 Emily Norton, who left him in 1916. 75 00:09:02,321 --> 00:09:05,908 Died 1918 in a motor accident with their son. 76 00:09:08,118 --> 00:09:10,662 Sixteen years after his first marriage 77 00:09:10,829 --> 00:09:13,123 two weeks after his first divorce 78 00:09:13,332 --> 00:09:15,417 Kane married Susan Alexander 79 00:09:15,584 --> 00:09:18,837 singer, at the Town Hall in Trenton, New Jersey. 80 00:09:19,630 --> 00:09:25,094 For wife two, one-time opera-singing Susan Alexander 81 00:09:25,260 --> 00:09:28,347 Kane built Chicago's Municipal Opera House. 82 00:09:28,514 --> 00:09:30,974 $3 million. 83 00:09:31,141 --> 00:09:37,022 Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane, half-finished before she divorced him 84 00:09:37,189 --> 00:09:39,191 the still unfinished 85 00:09:39,358 --> 00:09:40,692 Xanadu. 86 00:09:40,859 --> 00:09:44,029 No man can say. 87 00:09:47,366 --> 00:09:50,702 Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was 88 00:09:50,869 --> 00:09:53,569 in all his life was never granted elective office 89 00:09:53,664 --> 00:09:55,264 by the voters of his country. 90 00:09:55,415 --> 00:09:58,127 But Kane papers were once strong indeed, 91 00:09:58,293 --> 00:10:00,796 and once the prize seemed almost his. 92 00:10:01,046 --> 00:10:04,466 In 1916, as independent candidate for governor 93 00:10:04,633 --> 00:10:06,969 the best elements of the state behind him 94 00:10:07,136 --> 00:10:11,890 the White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career 95 00:10:12,057 --> 00:10:15,894 then suddenly, less than one week before election 96 00:10:16,478 --> 00:10:20,732 defeat. Shameful, ignominious. 97 00:10:20,899 --> 00:10:24,486 Defeat that set back for 20 years the cause of reform in the U.S 98 00:10:24,653 --> 00:10:28,282 forever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane. 99 00:10:30,993 --> 00:10:34,872 Then, in the first year of the Great Depression 100 00:10:35,038 --> 00:10:37,374 a Kane paper closes. 101 00:10:37,541 --> 00:10:41,044 For Kane, in four short years, collapse. 102 00:10:41,420 --> 00:10:46,633 Eleven Kane papers merged, more sold, scrapped. 103 00:10:56,268 --> 00:10:57,311 Is that correct? 104 00:10:57,477 --> 00:10:59,777 Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. 105 00:10:59,897 --> 00:11:03,734 - Read the Inquirer. - How were business conditions in Europe? 106 00:11:03,901 --> 00:11:07,779 How did I find business conditions in Europe, Mr. Bones? 107 00:11:07,946 --> 00:11:09,281 With great difficulty. 108 00:11:12,159 --> 00:11:13,785 Are you glad to be back? 109 00:11:13,952 --> 00:11:16,455 I'm always glad to be back. I'm an American. 110 00:11:17,331 --> 00:11:19,791 Always been an American. Anything else? 111 00:11:19,958 --> 00:11:22,961 When I was a reporter, we asked them quicker than that. 112 00:11:23,128 --> 00:11:25,628 What do you think of the chances for war in Europe? 113 00:11:25,756 --> 00:11:30,010 I talked with the responsible leaders of England, France, Germany and Italy. 114 00:11:30,177 --> 00:11:32,577 They're too intelligent to embark on a project 115 00:11:32,721 --> 00:11:35,182 which would mean the end of civilization. 116 00:11:35,349 --> 00:11:38,852 You can take my word for it, there will be no war. 117 00:11:43,273 --> 00:11:45,859 Kane helped to change the world, 118 00:11:46,026 --> 00:11:48,654 but Kane's world now is history, 119 00:11:48,820 --> 00:11:52,157 and the great yellow journalist himself lived to be history 120 00:11:52,324 --> 00:11:54,618 outlived his power to make it. 121 00:11:55,494 --> 00:11:59,498 Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace 122 00:11:59,748 --> 00:12:03,168 aloof, seldom visited, never photographed 123 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:07,965 an emperor of newsprint continued to direct his failing empire. 124 00:12:08,131 --> 00:12:10,842 Vainly attempted to sway, as he once did 125 00:12:11,218 --> 00:12:14,554 the destinies of a nation that had ceased to listen to him 126 00:12:14,721 --> 00:12:16,473 ceased to trust him. 127 00:12:18,684 --> 00:12:23,313 Then last week, as it must to all men 128 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,066 death came to Charles Foster Kane. 129 00:12:27,025 --> 00:12:29,528 News on the March. 130 00:12:33,865 --> 00:12:35,826 - That's it. - Hello. Hello. 131 00:12:35,993 --> 00:12:38,870 Stand by. I'll tell you if we want to run it again. 132 00:12:39,037 --> 00:12:41,581 - How about it, Mr. Rawlston? - How do you like it? 133 00:12:41,748 --> 00:12:43,375 Seventy years in a man's life. 134 00:12:43,542 --> 00:12:45,668 That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel. 135 00:12:45,752 --> 00:12:48,152 It's a good short, but what it needs is an angle. 136 00:12:48,255 --> 00:12:51,466 All we saw on that screen was that Charles Foster Kane is dead. 137 00:12:51,633 --> 00:12:53,635 I know that. I read the papers. 138 00:12:53,802 --> 00:12:56,430 It isn't enough to tell us what a man did 139 00:12:56,596 --> 00:12:59,683 you've got to tell us who he was. 140 00:12:59,850 --> 00:13:03,061 Wait a minute. What were Kane's last words? 141 00:13:03,228 --> 00:13:05,063 Do you remember, boys? 142 00:13:05,230 --> 00:13:07,566 What were the last words he said on Earth? 143 00:13:07,733 --> 00:13:09,943 Maybe he told us about himself on his deathbed. 144 00:13:10,027 --> 00:13:12,946 - Maybe he didn't. - All we saw was a big American. 145 00:13:13,113 --> 00:13:15,866 How did he differ from Ford, Hearst or John Doe? 146 00:13:16,033 --> 00:13:18,702 - Yeah, sure. - I tell you, a man's dying words... 147 00:13:18,869 --> 00:13:20,912 - What were they? - You don't read the papers. 148 00:13:20,996 --> 00:13:23,415 When Charles Foster Kane died, he said one word: 149 00:13:23,582 --> 00:13:26,293 - "Rosebud." - That's all he said? Tough guy. 150 00:13:26,460 --> 00:13:28,754 Yes, "Rosebud." Just that one word. 151 00:13:29,087 --> 00:13:30,714 - But who is she? - What was it? 152 00:13:30,881 --> 00:13:32,981 Here's a man who could've been president 153 00:13:33,091 --> 00:13:35,341 who was as loved, hated and talked about 154 00:13:35,469 --> 00:13:37,929 as any man in our time, but when he dies 155 00:13:38,096 --> 00:13:40,265 something is on his mind called Rosebud. 156 00:13:40,432 --> 00:13:42,892 - What does that mean? - A racehorse he bet on once. 157 00:13:42,976 --> 00:13:45,276 - That didn't come in. - But what was the race? 158 00:13:45,437 --> 00:13:46,480 Rosebud. 159 00:13:46,646 --> 00:13:47,731 - Thompson. - Yes. 160 00:13:47,898 --> 00:13:51,359 - Hold this up a week, two if you must. - Don't you think right after he's dead... 161 00:13:51,443 --> 00:13:56,114 Find out about Rosebud. Get in touch with anybody who knew him or knew him well. 162 00:13:56,281 --> 00:13:57,991 That manager of his... Uh... 163 00:13:58,158 --> 00:14:00,577 Bernstein. His second wife. She's still living. 164 00:14:00,744 --> 00:14:01,912 Susan Alexander Kane. 165 00:14:02,079 --> 00:14:04,831 - She runs a nightclub in Atlantic City. - That's right. 166 00:14:04,998 --> 00:14:08,398 See them all. Get in touch with everybody that ever worked for him 167 00:14:08,502 --> 00:14:11,630 whoever loved him, whoever hated his guts. 168 00:14:11,797 --> 00:14:14,466 I don't mean go through the city directory of course. 169 00:14:14,633 --> 00:14:16,134 I'll get on it right away. 170 00:14:16,301 --> 00:14:19,721 Good. Rosebud, dead or alive. 171 00:14:20,138 --> 00:14:22,688 It will probably turn out to be a very simple thing. 172 00:15:02,013 --> 00:15:03,557 Miss Alexander. 173 00:15:04,766 --> 00:15:07,018 This is Mr. Thompson, Miss Alexander. 174 00:15:07,185 --> 00:15:09,479 I want another drink, John. 175 00:15:12,399 --> 00:15:15,277 Right away. Will you have something, Mr. Thompson? 176 00:15:15,444 --> 00:15:18,947 - I'll have a highball, please. - Who told you you could sit down? 177 00:15:20,824 --> 00:15:22,701 I thought maybe we could have a talk. 178 00:15:22,868 --> 00:15:24,286 Think again. 179 00:15:25,454 --> 00:15:27,664 Can't you people leave me alone? 180 00:15:27,831 --> 00:15:29,981 I'm minding my own business, you mind yours. 181 00:15:30,125 --> 00:15:32,919 If I could just have a talk with you, Miss Alexander. I'd... 182 00:15:33,003 --> 00:15:34,713 Get out of here. 183 00:15:36,590 --> 00:15:37,841 Get out! 184 00:15:39,050 --> 00:15:40,719 - Sorry. - Get out. 185 00:15:41,011 --> 00:15:43,472 - Maybe some other time. - Get out. 186 00:15:54,483 --> 00:15:55,609 Gino. 187 00:15:57,527 --> 00:15:59,237 Get her another highball. 188 00:15:59,571 --> 00:16:02,032 She just won't talk to nobody, Mr. Thompson. 189 00:16:02,199 --> 00:16:03,450 Okay. 190 00:16:05,577 --> 00:16:08,914 - Another double? - Yeah. 191 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,916 Hello, I want New York City. 192 00:16:11,082 --> 00:16:16,671 Courtland 79970. This is Atlantic City 46827. All right. 193 00:16:16,838 --> 00:16:18,340 Hey. 194 00:16:18,507 --> 00:16:20,592 - She's, uh... - Yeah. 195 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:22,385 She'll snap out of it. 196 00:16:22,552 --> 00:16:25,847 Why, until he died, she'd just as soon talk about Mr. Kane as any... 197 00:16:25,931 --> 00:16:27,265 - Hello. - Sooner. 198 00:16:27,432 --> 00:16:30,060 This is Thompson. Let me talk to the chief. 199 00:16:31,853 --> 00:16:33,855 Mr. Rawlston? She won't talk. 200 00:16:34,105 --> 00:16:36,900 The second Mrs. Kane. About Rosebud or anything else. 201 00:16:37,067 --> 00:16:38,735 I'm calling from Atlantic City. 202 00:16:38,902 --> 00:16:42,452 Tomorrow I'll go to Philadelphia, to Thatcher Library, to see his diary. 203 00:16:42,614 --> 00:16:43,865 They're expecting me. 204 00:16:44,032 --> 00:16:47,494 Then I've a meeting with his general manager in New York. Bernstein. 205 00:16:47,661 --> 00:16:49,037 Then I'm coming back here. 206 00:16:49,204 --> 00:16:52,832 Yeah, I'll see everybody that's still alive. Goodbye. 207 00:16:52,999 --> 00:16:55,043 - Hey... Um... - John. 208 00:16:55,210 --> 00:16:56,962 You just might be able to help me. 209 00:16:57,128 --> 00:17:01,132 When she used to talk about Mr. Kane, did she ever mention Rosebud? 210 00:17:01,299 --> 00:17:02,801 "Rosebud"? 211 00:17:02,968 --> 00:17:05,554 Thank you, Mr. Thompson, thanks. 212 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,475 As a matter of fact, just the other day, when the papers were full of it 213 00:17:11,059 --> 00:17:13,186 I asked her. 214 00:17:13,728 --> 00:17:15,855 She never heard of Rosebud. 215 00:17:28,285 --> 00:17:31,997 The directors of the Thatcher Memorial Library have asked me 216 00:17:32,163 --> 00:17:35,375 to remind you about the conditions under which you may 217 00:17:35,542 --> 00:17:38,711 inspect certain portions of Mr. Thatcher's unpublished memoirs. 218 00:17:38,795 --> 00:17:41,422 - I remember them. - Yes, Jennings, I'll bring him in. 219 00:17:41,506 --> 00:17:44,006 - All I want is an hour... - Under no circumstances 220 00:17:44,134 --> 00:17:47,887 are direct quotes from his manuscript to be used by you. You may follow me. 221 00:17:47,971 --> 00:17:50,140 That's all right. I'm just looking for... 222 00:18:02,861 --> 00:18:04,529 Jennings. 223 00:18:09,534 --> 00:18:10,535 Thank you, Jennings. 224 00:18:11,911 --> 00:18:15,081 You will be required to leave this room at 4:30 promptly. 225 00:18:15,248 --> 00:18:17,792 You will confine yourself, it is our understanding 226 00:18:17,876 --> 00:18:21,254 to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript regarding Mr. Kane. 227 00:18:21,421 --> 00:18:23,298 That's all I'm interested in. 228 00:18:24,215 --> 00:18:25,592 Thank you. 229 00:18:26,885 --> 00:18:30,722 Pages 83 to 142. 230 00:19:08,259 --> 00:19:10,053 Come on, boys. 231 00:19:10,220 --> 00:19:12,472 - Be careful, Charles. - Mrs. Kane. 232 00:19:12,639 --> 00:19:14,789 Pull your muffler around your neck, Charles. 233 00:19:14,933 --> 00:19:17,183 Mrs. Kane, I think we'll have to tell him now. 234 00:19:17,268 --> 00:19:21,231 Yes, I'll sign those papers now, Mr. Thatcher. 235 00:19:21,398 --> 00:19:24,109 You people seem to forget that I'm the boy's father. 236 00:19:24,275 --> 00:19:27,194 It's going to be done exactly the way I've told Mr. Thatcher. 237 00:19:27,278 --> 00:19:31,032 There's nothing wrong with Colorado. I don't see why we can't raise our son 238 00:19:31,116 --> 00:19:32,866 just because we came into money. 239 00:19:32,951 --> 00:19:35,829 If I want to, I can go to court. A father has a right to. 240 00:19:35,995 --> 00:19:39,245 A boarder that beats his bill and leaves worthless stock behind... 241 00:19:39,374 --> 00:19:42,210 That property is as much my property as anybody's 242 00:19:42,377 --> 00:19:45,296 now that it's valuable. And if Fred Graves had any idea 243 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:48,966 this would happen, he'd have made out the certificates in both our names. 244 00:19:49,050 --> 00:19:52,511 - But they're made out to Mrs. Kane. - He owed the money to both of us. 245 00:19:52,595 --> 00:19:57,308 - "The bank's decision in all matters..." - I don't hold with giving Charles to a bank... 246 00:19:57,475 --> 00:19:59,727 - Stop this nonsense. - We're a bit uneducated... 247 00:19:59,811 --> 00:20:02,146 "The bank's decision concerning his education 248 00:20:02,230 --> 00:20:04,441 his places of residence, is to be final." 249 00:20:04,607 --> 00:20:08,069 - The idea of a bank being the guardian... - Stop this nonsense, Jim. 250 00:20:08,236 --> 00:20:11,030 "We will assume full management of the Colorado Lode" 251 00:20:11,197 --> 00:20:13,797 which I repeat, Mrs. Kane, you are the sole owner. 252 00:20:13,950 --> 00:20:16,077 - Where do I sign, Mr. Thatcher? - Right here. 253 00:20:16,161 --> 00:20:19,205 Mary, I'm asking you for the last time. 254 00:20:19,372 --> 00:20:21,874 You'd think I hadn't been a good husband or father... 255 00:20:21,958 --> 00:20:23,418 The sum of $50,000 a year 256 00:20:23,585 --> 00:20:26,735 is to be paid to you and Mr. Kane as long as you both live, 257 00:20:26,838 --> 00:20:28,965 and thereafter to the survivor. 258 00:20:29,549 --> 00:20:32,719 - Let's hope it's all for the best. - It is. 259 00:20:32,886 --> 00:20:35,096 The union forever! 260 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:40,727 Why I can't raise my own boy is more than I can understand. 261 00:20:40,894 --> 00:20:42,812 Go on, Mr. Thatcher. 262 00:20:42,979 --> 00:20:46,079 Everything else, the principal, as well as all monies earned 263 00:20:46,191 --> 00:20:50,241 is to be administered by the bank in trust for your son, Charles Foster Kane 264 00:20:50,361 --> 00:20:52,988 until he reaches his 25th birthday, at which time 265 00:20:53,072 --> 00:20:55,366 he is to come into complete possession. 266 00:20:55,533 --> 00:20:57,118 Charles! 267 00:20:58,870 --> 00:21:00,455 Go on, Mr. Thatcher. 268 00:21:00,622 --> 00:21:05,877 Well, it's almost 5. Don't you think I'd better meet the boy? 269 00:21:06,044 --> 00:21:08,004 I've got his trunk all packed. 270 00:21:09,380 --> 00:21:11,716 I've had it packed for a week now. 271 00:21:14,219 --> 00:21:16,512 I've arranged for a tutor to meet us in Chicago. 272 00:21:16,596 --> 00:21:18,765 I'd have brought him here with me, but... 273 00:21:19,516 --> 00:21:21,226 - Charles. - Lookie, Mom. 274 00:21:21,392 --> 00:21:22,769 You'd better come inside. 275 00:21:22,936 --> 00:21:25,896 - That's quite a snowman. - I took the pipe out of his mouth. 276 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:27,398 Did you make it yourself? 277 00:21:27,565 --> 00:21:30,109 Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers. 278 00:21:30,401 --> 00:21:32,445 This is Mr. Thatcher, Charles. 279 00:21:32,862 --> 00:21:34,906 - Hello. - How do you do, Charles? 280 00:21:35,073 --> 00:21:36,533 He comes from the East. 281 00:21:36,699 --> 00:21:38,076 - Pa. - Hello, Charlie. 282 00:21:38,243 --> 00:21:39,452 Charles. 283 00:21:40,245 --> 00:21:41,579 Yes, Mommy? 284 00:21:43,164 --> 00:21:46,167 Mr. Thatcher is going to take you on a trip with him tonight. 285 00:21:46,334 --> 00:21:47,961 You'll be leaving on number 10. 286 00:21:48,127 --> 00:21:50,212 That's the train with all the lights on it. 287 00:21:50,296 --> 00:21:51,339 You going, Mom? 288 00:21:51,506 --> 00:21:54,717 No. Your mother won't be going right away, but she'll... 289 00:21:55,426 --> 00:21:56,803 Where am I going? 290 00:21:56,970 --> 00:22:00,932 You're going to see Chicago and New York and Washington, maybe. Ain't he? 291 00:22:01,099 --> 00:22:02,183 He certainly is. 292 00:22:02,350 --> 00:22:05,645 I wish I were a boy going on a trip like that for the first time. 293 00:22:05,812 --> 00:22:09,064 - Why aren't you coming with us, Mom? - We have to stay here, Charles. 294 00:22:09,148 --> 00:22:11,948 You're gonna live with Mr. Thatcher from now on, Charlie. 295 00:22:12,110 --> 00:22:15,530 You're gonna be rich. Your ma figures, well, that is 296 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:18,949 me and her decided this ain't the place for you to grow up in. 297 00:22:19,033 --> 00:22:21,327 You'll probably be the richest man someday, 298 00:22:21,494 --> 00:22:23,913 - and you ought to get... - You won't be lonely. 299 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,541 Lonely, of course not. We're going to have fine times together, we are. 300 00:22:27,625 --> 00:22:30,461 Let's shake hands. Come. I'm not that frightening, am I? 301 00:22:30,753 --> 00:22:33,053 - What do you say? Let's shake. - Why, Charles. 302 00:22:33,214 --> 00:22:35,007 - Why, you almost hurt me. - Charlie! 303 00:22:35,091 --> 00:22:37,468 Sleds aren't to hit people, but to sleigh with. 304 00:22:37,635 --> 00:22:38,636 Mom! 305 00:22:38,803 --> 00:22:41,347 You got to go. Jim! 306 00:22:41,681 --> 00:22:44,976 I'm sorry, Mr. Thatcher. What the kid needs is a good thrashing. 307 00:22:45,143 --> 00:22:46,993 - That's what you think, is it? - Yes. 308 00:22:47,103 --> 00:22:51,357 That's why he's going to be brought up where you can't get at him. 309 00:23:11,252 --> 00:23:13,421 Well, Charles 310 00:23:15,381 --> 00:23:18,259 - Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 311 00:23:18,426 --> 00:23:20,595 And a happy New Year. 312 00:23:20,762 --> 00:23:21,971 In closing 313 00:23:22,138 --> 00:23:25,850 may I remind you your 25th birthday, which is now approaching 314 00:23:26,017 --> 00:23:28,686 marks your complete independence from the firm 315 00:23:28,853 --> 00:23:32,398 of Thatcher & Company, as well as acquiring the full responsibility, 316 00:23:32,482 --> 00:23:34,882 for the world's sixth largest private fortune. 317 00:23:34,984 --> 00:23:38,029 - Got that? - "The world's sixth largest private fortune." 318 00:23:38,196 --> 00:23:42,116 I don't think you realize the full importance of the position you are to occupy. 319 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,618 I am therefore enclosing for your consideration 320 00:23:44,702 --> 00:23:47,352 a list of your holdings, extensively cross-indexed. 321 00:23:47,455 --> 00:23:49,605 - "Dear Mr. Thatcher." - It's from Mr. Kane. 322 00:23:49,749 --> 00:23:52,251 - Go on. - "Sorry, I'm not interested in gold mines 323 00:23:52,335 --> 00:23:54,285 oil wells, shipping or real estate." 324 00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:56,547 Not interested? 325 00:23:56,714 --> 00:24:00,051 "One item on your list intrigues me: The New York Inquirer. 326 00:24:00,218 --> 00:24:03,118 A little newspaper we acquired in a foreclosure proceeding. 327 00:24:03,221 --> 00:24:05,521 Don't sell it. I am coming back to take charge. 328 00:24:05,682 --> 00:24:08,059 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." 329 00:24:08,226 --> 00:24:12,271 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. 330 00:24:20,113 --> 00:24:22,240 "Traction Trust exposed." 331 00:24:22,407 --> 00:24:24,951 "Traction Trust bleeds public white." 332 00:24:25,118 --> 00:24:28,371 "Traction Trust smashed by Inquirer." 333 00:24:28,538 --> 00:24:31,958 "Landlords refuse to clear slums." 334 00:24:32,291 --> 00:24:36,629 "Inquirer wins slum fight." Oh... 335 00:24:37,338 --> 00:24:41,217 "Wall Street backs copper swindle." 336 00:24:41,384 --> 00:24:43,428 "Copper robbers indicted." 337 00:24:43,594 --> 00:24:46,431 "Galleons of Spain off Jersey Coast." 338 00:24:46,597 --> 00:24:49,100 Is that really your idea of how to run a newspaper? 339 00:24:49,267 --> 00:24:52,667 I don't know how to run a newspaper. I try everything I can think of. 340 00:24:52,770 --> 00:24:55,606 You know there's not the slightest proof this 341 00:24:55,773 --> 00:24:58,609 - armada's off the Jersey Coast. - Hello, Mr. Bernstein. 342 00:24:58,776 --> 00:25:00,153 Can you prove it isn't? 343 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:03,031 Mr. Bernstein, I'd like you to meet Mr. Thatcher. 344 00:25:03,781 --> 00:25:04,907 - Mr. Leland. - Hello. 345 00:25:05,074 --> 00:25:06,659 Mr. Thatcher, my ex-guardian. 346 00:25:06,826 --> 00:25:11,956 We have no secrets from our readers. Thatcher is one of our devoted readers. 347 00:25:12,123 --> 00:25:15,960 He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Inquirer since I took over. Read. 348 00:25:16,044 --> 00:25:19,088 "Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose poems" 349 00:25:19,172 --> 00:25:22,884 about scenery but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. 350 00:25:23,051 --> 00:25:25,803 There is no war in Cuba." Signed "Wheeler." Any answer? 351 00:25:25,970 --> 00:25:30,433 Yes. Dear Wheeler: You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war. 352 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,250 - That's fine. - I like it myself. Send it right away. 353 00:25:33,394 --> 00:25:35,694 I came to see you about this campaign of yours. 354 00:25:35,813 --> 00:25:38,691 The Inquirer's campaign against the Public Transit Company. 355 00:25:38,775 --> 00:25:40,975 Do you know anything we can use against them? 356 00:25:41,069 --> 00:25:42,570 Still the college boy, eh? 357 00:25:42,737 --> 00:25:46,741 I was expelled from college, a lot of colleges, you remember? I remember. 358 00:25:46,908 --> 00:25:50,244 Charles, I think I should remind you of a fact you have forgotten. 359 00:25:50,411 --> 00:25:54,165 You're one of the largest stockholders in the Public Transit Company. 360 00:25:54,332 --> 00:25:57,418 The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. 361 00:25:57,502 --> 00:26:00,546 As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82,364 shares 362 00:26:00,713 --> 00:26:04,508 of Public Transit Preferred. See, I do have a general idea of my holdings. 363 00:26:04,592 --> 00:26:07,053 I sympathize with you. Kane is a scoundrel 364 00:26:07,345 --> 00:26:10,472 his paper should be closed, a committee formed to boycott him. 365 00:26:10,556 --> 00:26:14,268 If you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1000. 366 00:26:14,435 --> 00:26:17,188 On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer. 367 00:26:17,355 --> 00:26:21,455 As such it's my duty, I'll let you in on a little secret. It is also my pleasure 368 00:26:21,609 --> 00:26:25,738 to see that the working people of this community aren't robbed by a pack 369 00:26:25,905 --> 00:26:28,449 of money-mad pirates, just because 370 00:26:28,866 --> 00:26:32,036 they have no one to look after their interests. 371 00:26:32,453 --> 00:26:35,373 I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. 372 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:39,335 I think I'm the man to do it. You see, I have money and property. 373 00:26:39,502 --> 00:26:43,402 If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, somebody else will. 374 00:26:43,548 --> 00:26:45,598 Maybe somebody without money or property. 375 00:26:45,716 --> 00:26:46,926 That would be too bad. 376 00:26:47,093 --> 00:26:49,137 I saw your financial statement today. 377 00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:52,223 - Oh, did you? - Tell me, honestly 378 00:26:52,431 --> 00:26:56,644 don't you think it's rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise 379 00:26:56,811 --> 00:26:59,772 this Inquirer, that is costing you $1 million a year? 380 00:26:59,939 --> 00:27:04,694 Yes. I did lose $1 million last year. I expect to lose $1 million this year. 381 00:27:04,861 --> 00:27:07,446 I expect to lose $1 million next year. 382 00:27:07,613 --> 00:27:10,074 At the rate of $1 million a year 383 00:27:10,241 --> 00:27:14,036 I'll have to close this place in 60 years. 384 00:27:23,254 --> 00:27:25,590 "With respect to the said newspapers" 385 00:27:25,756 --> 00:27:28,176 the said Charles Foster Kane 386 00:27:28,342 --> 00:27:31,888 hereby relinquishes all control thereof, 387 00:27:32,305 --> 00:27:35,016 and of the syndicates pertaining thereto, 388 00:27:35,183 --> 00:27:41,230 and any and all other newspaper, press and publishing properties of any kind, 389 00:27:41,689 --> 00:27:43,983 "and agrees to abandon all claim thereto..." 390 00:27:44,150 --> 00:27:47,445 - Which means we're bust all right. - Well, out of cash. 391 00:27:47,612 --> 00:27:49,071 All right, Mr. Bernstein. 392 00:27:49,238 --> 00:27:53,659 I've read it, Mr. Thatcher, just let me sign it and go home. 393 00:27:53,826 --> 00:27:57,121 You're too old to call me Mr. Thatcher, Charles. 394 00:27:57,288 --> 00:28:00,249 You're too old to be called anything else. 395 00:28:00,416 --> 00:28:02,585 You were always too old. 396 00:28:03,211 --> 00:28:06,839 "In consideration thereof, Thatcher & Company agrees 397 00:28:07,006 --> 00:28:09,759 to pay to Charles Foster Kane, as long as he lives..." 398 00:28:09,926 --> 00:28:11,469 My allowance. 399 00:28:11,636 --> 00:28:15,431 "You will continue to maintain over your newspapers a large 400 00:28:15,598 --> 00:28:20,311 measure of control. Measure of control." 401 00:28:20,811 --> 00:28:24,023 And we shall seek your advice. 402 00:28:26,609 --> 00:28:30,488 This depression is temporary. 403 00:28:31,656 --> 00:28:35,493 There's always the chance that you'll die richer than I will. 404 00:28:35,701 --> 00:28:38,120 It's a cinch I'll die richer than I was born. 405 00:28:38,287 --> 00:28:40,665 We never lost as much as we made. 406 00:28:40,831 --> 00:28:45,253 Yes, yes, but your methods. You know, Charles 407 00:28:45,419 --> 00:28:50,633 you never made a single investment. You always used money to... 408 00:28:51,342 --> 00:28:55,221 To buy things. Hmm? 409 00:28:56,555 --> 00:28:58,849 To buy things. 410 00:28:59,809 --> 00:29:03,771 My mother should have chosen a less reliable banker. 411 00:29:10,611 --> 00:29:14,365 I always gagged on that silver spoon. 412 00:29:15,866 --> 00:29:18,369 You know, Mr. Bernstein 413 00:29:20,037 --> 00:29:22,748 if I hadn't been very rich 414 00:29:23,332 --> 00:29:25,584 I might have been a really great man. 415 00:29:25,751 --> 00:29:27,920 Don't you think you are? 416 00:29:29,922 --> 00:29:33,134 I think I did pretty well under the circumstances. 417 00:29:34,969 --> 00:29:37,388 What would you like to have been? 418 00:29:40,182 --> 00:29:42,518 Everything you hate. 419 00:29:50,401 --> 00:29:54,113 - Oh... - I beg your pardon, sir? What did you say? 420 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,034 - It's 4:30. Isn't it, Jennings? - Yes, ma'am. 421 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,703 You have enjoyed a very rare privilege, young man. 422 00:30:00,870 --> 00:30:03,873 - Did you find what you were looking for? - No. 423 00:30:06,334 --> 00:30:08,294 - You're not Rosebud, are you? - What? 424 00:30:08,461 --> 00:30:11,422 Rosebud, and your name is Jennings, isn't it? 425 00:30:11,589 --> 00:30:16,010 Goodbye, everybody. Thanks for the use of the hall. 426 00:30:16,761 --> 00:30:20,264 Who's a busy man, me? I'm chairman of the board. 427 00:30:20,431 --> 00:30:22,831 I got nothing but time. What do you want to know? 428 00:30:22,933 --> 00:30:27,063 We thought maybe... If we could find out what he meant by his last words 429 00:30:27,229 --> 00:30:29,648 - as he was dying. - That "Rosebud"? 430 00:30:29,815 --> 00:30:32,234 Maybe some girl? 431 00:30:32,401 --> 00:30:34,528 There were a lot of them in the early days. 432 00:30:34,695 --> 00:30:37,906 It's hardly likely that Mr. Kane could have met someone casually, 433 00:30:37,990 --> 00:30:40,190 and then 50 years later, on his deathbed... 434 00:30:40,326 --> 00:30:45,122 Well, you're pretty young, Mr. Thompson. 435 00:30:45,289 --> 00:30:48,876 A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. 436 00:30:49,043 --> 00:30:50,669 You take me. 437 00:30:50,836 --> 00:30:55,883 One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, 438 00:30:56,092 --> 00:30:59,220 and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, 439 00:30:59,387 --> 00:31:02,139 and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. 440 00:31:02,973 --> 00:31:04,683 A white dress she had on. 441 00:31:04,850 --> 00:31:07,311 She was carrying a white parasol. 442 00:31:07,645 --> 00:31:10,064 I only saw her for one second. 443 00:31:10,231 --> 00:31:15,653 She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since 444 00:31:16,529 --> 00:31:19,115 that I haven't thought of that girl. 445 00:31:19,615 --> 00:31:23,744 - Who else have you been to see? - Well, I went down to Atlantic City. 446 00:31:23,911 --> 00:31:25,788 Susie? 447 00:31:25,955 --> 00:31:27,289 Thank you. 448 00:31:27,832 --> 00:31:30,709 I called her myself the day after he died. 449 00:31:31,043 --> 00:31:33,462 I thought maybe somebody ought to. 450 00:31:34,755 --> 00:31:39,009 - She couldn't even come to the phone. - I'll be seeing her again in a couple of days. 451 00:31:39,176 --> 00:31:41,137 About Rosebud, Mr. Bernstein. 452 00:31:41,345 --> 00:31:45,015 If you'd talk about anything connected with Mr. Kane that you can remember. 453 00:31:45,099 --> 00:31:46,949 You were with him from the beginning. 454 00:31:47,101 --> 00:31:52,481 From before the beginning, young fellow. And now it's after the end. 455 00:31:53,524 --> 00:31:55,818 Have you tried to see anybody except Susie? 456 00:31:55,985 --> 00:32:00,197 I haven't seen anybody else, but I've been through Walter Thatcher's journal. 457 00:32:00,364 --> 00:32:04,785 - That man was the biggest fool I ever met. - He made an awful lot of money. 458 00:32:04,952 --> 00:32:07,705 Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money 459 00:32:08,205 --> 00:32:10,416 if all you want 460 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,128 is to make a lot of money. 461 00:32:16,046 --> 00:32:18,090 You take Mr. Kane. 462 00:32:19,550 --> 00:32:21,844 It wasn't money he wanted. 463 00:32:23,596 --> 00:32:27,808 Thatcher never did figure him out. Sometimes even I couldn't. 464 00:32:27,975 --> 00:32:31,395 You know who you ought to see? Mr. Leland. 465 00:32:31,562 --> 00:32:34,648 He was Mr. Kane's closest friend. They went to school together. 466 00:32:34,732 --> 00:32:35,858 Harvard? 467 00:32:36,025 --> 00:32:39,570 Oh, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland. 468 00:32:39,737 --> 00:32:42,364 He was thrown out of a lot of colleges. 469 00:32:42,573 --> 00:32:45,242 Mr. Leland never had a nickel. 470 00:32:45,534 --> 00:32:48,578 One of those families where the father is worth $10 million 471 00:32:48,662 --> 00:32:52,917 then one day he shoots himself, and it turns out there's nothing but debts. 472 00:32:54,585 --> 00:32:56,837 He was with Mr. Kane and me 473 00:32:57,838 --> 00:33:00,758 the first day Mr. Kane took over the Inquirer. 474 00:33:08,432 --> 00:33:10,935 Take a good look at it, Jedediah. 475 00:33:11,185 --> 00:33:15,064 It's going to look a lot different one of these days. Come on. 476 00:33:23,822 --> 00:33:27,122 There ain't no bedrooms in this joint. That's a newspaper building. 477 00:33:27,243 --> 00:33:30,621 You're getting paid, mister, for opinions or for hauling? 478 00:33:30,788 --> 00:33:31,830 Ugh. 479 00:33:34,792 --> 00:33:37,711 - Jedediah. - After you, Mr. Kane. 480 00:33:49,932 --> 00:33:52,142 Excuse me, sir, but I... 481 00:33:55,104 --> 00:33:58,899 Welcome, Mr. Kane. Welcome. 482 00:33:59,567 --> 00:34:02,236 Welcome to the Inquirer, Mr. Kane. 483 00:34:02,403 --> 00:34:04,613 I am Herbert Carter, the editor-in-chief. 484 00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:08,576 - Thank you, Mr. Carter. This is Mr. Leland... - How do you do, Mr. Leland? 485 00:34:08,742 --> 00:34:11,579 Our new dramatic critic. I hope I haven't made a mistake. 486 00:34:11,745 --> 00:34:13,955 - It is dramatic critic, right? - That's right. 487 00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:17,626 - Are they standing for me? - You? Oh, Mr. Kane. 488 00:34:17,835 --> 00:34:18,919 Standing? 489 00:34:19,086 --> 00:34:20,686 - How do you do? - How do you do? 490 00:34:20,796 --> 00:34:23,048 I thought it would be a nice little gesture. 491 00:34:23,215 --> 00:34:26,343 - Ask them to sit down, will you, please. - The new publisher. 492 00:34:26,885 --> 00:34:30,681 - You may resume your duties, gentlemen. - Thank you. 493 00:34:30,848 --> 00:34:34,184 - I didn't know your plans. - I don't know my plans myself. 494 00:34:34,518 --> 00:34:36,853 - Matter of fact, I haven't got any plans. - No? 495 00:34:36,937 --> 00:34:38,437 Except to get out a newspaper. 496 00:34:43,402 --> 00:34:45,112 - Whoops. - Mr. Bernstein. 497 00:34:45,279 --> 00:34:46,488 Yes, Mr. Kane. 498 00:34:46,655 --> 00:34:48,949 Mr. Carter, this is Mr. Bernstein. 499 00:34:49,116 --> 00:34:54,038 - Mr. Bernstein is my general manager. - How do you do, Mr. Carter? 500 00:34:54,204 --> 00:34:56,040 - Mr. Carter. - How do you do? 501 00:34:57,041 --> 00:34:59,335 - Yes, Mr. Bernstine. - Stein. 502 00:34:59,501 --> 00:35:03,047 - Kane. - Mr. Carter, is this your office? 503 00:35:03,213 --> 00:35:07,301 My little private sanctum is at your disposal. 504 00:35:07,468 --> 00:35:10,846 - Excuse me. - But I don't understand. 505 00:35:11,221 --> 00:35:15,225 Mr. Carter, I'm going to live right here in your office as long as I have to. 506 00:35:16,352 --> 00:35:18,228 Live here? Yes? 507 00:35:18,395 --> 00:35:21,148 - Excuse me. - But a morning newspaper, after all... 508 00:35:21,315 --> 00:35:22,399 Excuse me. 509 00:35:22,566 --> 00:35:26,236 We're practically closed for 12 hours a day. 510 00:35:26,528 --> 00:35:29,656 That's one of the things that's going to have to be changed here. 511 00:35:29,740 --> 00:35:33,243 - The news goes on for 24 hours a day. - Twenty-four? 512 00:35:33,410 --> 00:35:36,705 - That's right. - Excuse me. 513 00:35:36,872 --> 00:35:38,457 It's impossible... 514 00:35:38,624 --> 00:35:43,587 I've drawn that cartoon. I'm no good as a cartoonist. 515 00:35:43,754 --> 00:35:45,255 You certainly aren't. 516 00:35:45,422 --> 00:35:47,172 You're the dramatic critic, Leland. 517 00:35:47,299 --> 00:35:49,199 - You still eating? - I'm still hungry. 518 00:35:49,343 --> 00:35:51,762 Here's a front-page story in the Chronicle 519 00:35:51,929 --> 00:35:54,932 about a Mrs. Harry Silverstone in Brooklyn who's missing. 520 00:35:55,099 --> 00:35:59,645 She's probably murdered. Why isn't there something about it in the Inquirer? 521 00:35:59,812 --> 00:36:01,522 We're running a newspaper... 522 00:36:01,689 --> 00:36:04,689 - I'm absolutely starving to death. - ... not a scandal sheet. 523 00:36:05,484 --> 00:36:06,652 That's all right. 524 00:36:06,819 --> 00:36:10,739 Mr. Carter, here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. 525 00:36:10,906 --> 00:36:13,325 Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline? 526 00:36:13,492 --> 00:36:14,993 - The news wasn't big enough. - Mm-hm. 527 00:36:15,077 --> 00:36:19,707 Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough. 528 00:36:19,873 --> 00:36:22,500 - That's right! - The murder of Mrs. Harry Silverstone... 529 00:36:22,584 --> 00:36:24,753 There's no proof that she was murdered, or dead. 530 00:36:24,837 --> 00:36:27,714 It says she's missing. The neighbors are getting suspicious. 531 00:36:27,798 --> 00:36:30,598 It's not our function to report the gossip of housewives. 532 00:36:30,759 --> 00:36:34,971 If we were interested in that kind of thing, we could fill the paper twice over, daily. 533 00:36:35,055 --> 00:36:38,391 That's the kind of thing we are going to be interested in from now on. 534 00:36:38,475 --> 00:36:41,395 I want you to send your best man to see Mr. Silverstone. 535 00:36:41,562 --> 00:36:45,398 Have him tell Mr. Silverstone if he doesn't produce his wife, Mrs. Silverstone 536 00:36:45,482 --> 00:36:47,567 - the Inquirer will have him arrested. - Wha...? 537 00:36:47,651 --> 00:36:50,070 Tell Mr. Silverstone he's a detective from, uh... 538 00:36:50,237 --> 00:36:52,656 - Central Office. - The Central Office. 539 00:36:52,990 --> 00:36:57,453 If Mr. Silverstone gets suspicious and asks to see your man's badge 540 00:36:57,619 --> 00:37:01,415 your man is to get indignant and call Mr. Silverstone an anarchist. 541 00:37:01,665 --> 00:37:04,915 Loudly, so the neighbors can hear. You ready for dinner, Jedediah? 542 00:37:05,002 --> 00:37:08,172 I can't see that the function of a respectable newspaper... 543 00:37:08,338 --> 00:37:11,467 Thank you so much, Mr. Carter. Goodbye. 544 00:37:12,050 --> 00:37:13,302 Goodbye. 545 00:37:14,011 --> 00:37:16,847 Paper! Read all about it! 546 00:37:17,097 --> 00:37:19,975 Read all about it in the early morning Chronicle. 547 00:37:20,142 --> 00:37:22,592 The mystery of the lady that vanished in Brooklyn. 548 00:37:24,021 --> 00:37:27,691 Read all about it in the early morning Chronicle. 549 00:37:40,162 --> 00:37:43,749 We'll be on the street soon, Charlie, another 10 minutes. 550 00:37:43,916 --> 00:37:46,543 Three hours and 50 minutes late, but we did it. 551 00:37:46,710 --> 00:37:48,212 - Tired? - A tough day. 552 00:37:48,378 --> 00:37:49,922 - A wasted day. - Wasted? 553 00:37:50,088 --> 00:37:53,038 You only made the paper over four times tonight, that's all. 554 00:37:53,217 --> 00:37:56,678 I've changed the front page a little, Mr. Bernstein. That's not enough. 555 00:37:56,762 --> 00:38:00,974 There's something I've got to get into this paper besides pictures and print. 556 00:38:01,558 --> 00:38:04,686 I've got to make the New York Inquirer as important to New York 557 00:38:04,770 --> 00:38:06,647 as the gas in that light. 558 00:38:07,272 --> 00:38:09,024 What are you going to do, Charlie? 559 00:38:09,191 --> 00:38:13,320 My Declaration of Principles. Don't smile, Jedediah. 560 00:38:13,737 --> 00:38:16,240 I've got it all written out here. 561 00:38:16,740 --> 00:38:19,743 You don't want to make any promises you don't want to keep. 562 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:21,578 These'll be kept. 563 00:38:22,412 --> 00:38:24,915 "I'll provide the people of this city" 564 00:38:25,249 --> 00:38:28,836 with a daily paper that will tell all the news honestly. 565 00:38:30,087 --> 00:38:33,382 - I will also provide..." - That's two sentences starting with "I." 566 00:38:33,549 --> 00:38:36,051 People will know who's responsible, 567 00:38:36,218 --> 00:38:40,218 and they'll get the truth in the Inquirer, quickly, simply and entertainingly. 568 00:38:40,347 --> 00:38:43,600 No special interests will be allowed to interfere with that truth. 569 00:38:43,767 --> 00:38:47,687 "I will also provide them with a fighting and tireless champion of their rights 570 00:38:47,771 --> 00:38:50,357 as citizens and as human beings." 571 00:38:52,693 --> 00:38:55,279 "Charles Foster Kane." 572 00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,867 - Can I have that, Charlie? - I'm going to print it. 573 00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:01,451 Solly! 574 00:39:02,452 --> 00:39:03,453 Yes, Mr. Kane? 575 00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:06,498 I want you to run this editorial in a box on the front page. 576 00:39:06,582 --> 00:39:07,958 This morning's front page? 577 00:39:08,125 --> 00:39:11,128 That's right, Solly, that means we'll have to remake again. 578 00:39:11,295 --> 00:39:13,005 - Yes. - Go down and tell them. 579 00:39:13,171 --> 00:39:14,464 - All right. - Solly. 580 00:39:14,756 --> 00:39:18,468 When you're through with that, I'd like to have it back. 581 00:39:20,137 --> 00:39:23,390 I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. 582 00:39:23,557 --> 00:39:27,603 I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. 583 00:39:27,853 --> 00:39:29,980 - A document... - Sure. 584 00:39:30,147 --> 00:39:33,567 like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution... 585 00:39:34,276 --> 00:39:36,904 and my first report card at school. 586 00:40:05,182 --> 00:40:08,518 I know you're tired, gentlemen, but I brought you here for a reason. 587 00:40:08,602 --> 00:40:12,272 - This little pilgrimage will do us good. - The Chronicle's a good newspaper. 588 00:40:12,356 --> 00:40:15,441 Chronicle's a good idea for a newspaper. Notice the circulation. 589 00:40:15,525 --> 00:40:20,322 495,000. But look who's working for the Chronicle. 590 00:40:20,489 --> 00:40:23,659 - With them, it's no trick to get circulation. - You're right. 591 00:40:23,867 --> 00:40:27,161 You know how long it took the Chronicle to get that staff together? 592 00:40:27,245 --> 00:40:29,998 - Twenty years. - Twenty years? 593 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:35,545 Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. 594 00:40:35,712 --> 00:40:37,912 I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. 595 00:40:38,048 --> 00:40:42,010 Tonight, six years later, I got my candy, all of it. 596 00:40:42,469 --> 00:40:44,429 Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer. 597 00:40:44,596 --> 00:40:47,746 Make an extra copy of that picture and mail it to the Chronicle. 598 00:40:49,309 --> 00:40:52,645 It'll make you all happy to learn that our circulation this morning 599 00:40:52,729 --> 00:40:55,816 was the greatest in New York: 684,000. 600 00:40:56,441 --> 00:41:00,070 684,132. 601 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,488 Right. 602 00:41:02,030 --> 00:41:05,659 I hope you'll forgive my rudeness in taking leave of you. 603 00:41:05,826 --> 00:41:08,203 I'm going abroad next week for a vacation. 604 00:41:08,370 --> 00:41:11,832 I've promised my doctor for sometime that I would leave when I could. 605 00:41:11,999 --> 00:41:13,333 I now realize I can't. 606 00:41:14,710 --> 00:41:17,045 Say, Mr. Kane, as long as you're promising 607 00:41:17,212 --> 00:41:21,091 there's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you ain't bought yet. 608 00:41:21,258 --> 00:41:23,176 You can't blame me, Mr. Bernstein. 609 00:41:23,593 --> 00:41:26,221 They've been making statues for 2000 years. 610 00:41:26,388 --> 00:41:28,390 And I've only been buying for five. 611 00:41:28,557 --> 00:41:31,057 - Promise me, Mr. Kane. - I promise, Mr. Bernstein. 612 00:41:31,184 --> 00:41:33,937 - Thank you. - Mr. Bernstein? 613 00:41:34,104 --> 00:41:36,954 You don't expect me to keep any of those promises, do you? 614 00:41:39,109 --> 00:41:41,153 And now, gentlemen! 615 00:41:41,319 --> 00:41:44,531 Your complete attention, if you please. 616 00:41:50,454 --> 00:41:53,540 Are we going to declare war on Spain? 617 00:42:01,381 --> 00:42:04,926 Oh, mama, here they come. Shoot me while I'm happy. 618 00:42:12,726 --> 00:42:18,315 I said, "Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?" 619 00:42:18,482 --> 00:42:20,317 The Inquirer already has. 620 00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:24,488 You long-faced, overdressed anarchist. 621 00:42:24,696 --> 00:42:26,448 I am not overdressed. 622 00:42:26,615 --> 00:42:29,910 You are, too. Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie. 623 00:42:30,077 --> 00:42:31,995 Let's have the song about Charlie. 624 00:42:32,162 --> 00:42:35,540 - Is there a song about Charlie? - Is there a song about you, Mr. Kane? 625 00:42:35,624 --> 00:42:39,920 You buy a bag of peanuts in this town, you get a song written about you. 626 00:42:49,763 --> 00:42:52,099 I've seen that fellow. He's good. 627 00:42:52,307 --> 00:42:53,642 Good evening, Mr. Kane. 628 00:42:53,809 --> 00:42:55,268 There is a man There is a man 629 00:42:55,352 --> 00:42:56,853 A certain man A certain man 630 00:42:56,937 --> 00:43:00,190 And for the poor you may be sure That he'll do all he can 631 00:43:00,357 --> 00:43:02,066 - Who is this one? - Who is this one? 632 00:43:02,150 --> 00:43:03,901 - This favorite son - This favorite son 633 00:43:03,985 --> 00:43:06,738 Just by his action Has the traction magnates on the run 634 00:43:06,905 --> 00:43:08,781 - Who loves to smoke - Who loves to smoke 635 00:43:08,865 --> 00:43:10,242 - Enjoys a joke - Ha-ha-ha 636 00:43:10,450 --> 00:43:13,411 Who wouldn't get a bit upset If he were really broke 637 00:43:13,578 --> 00:43:15,329 - With wealth and fame - With wealth and fame 638 00:43:15,413 --> 00:43:16,748 He's still the same 639 00:43:16,915 --> 00:43:20,418 I'll bet you five you're not alive If you don't know his name 640 00:43:25,924 --> 00:43:27,884 What is his name? 641 00:43:28,051 --> 00:43:30,220 It's Charlie Kane, it's Mister Kane! 642 00:43:30,387 --> 00:43:34,182 He doesn't like that Mister He likes good old Charlie Kane 643 00:43:49,823 --> 00:43:52,784 - Isn't it wonderful? Such a party. - Yes. 644 00:43:52,951 --> 00:43:54,703 What's the matter? 645 00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:58,081 Who says a miss was made to kiss 646 00:43:58,248 --> 00:44:01,251 And when he meets one Always tries to do exactly this 647 00:44:01,418 --> 00:44:04,588 Who buys the food Who buys the drinks 648 00:44:04,754 --> 00:44:08,008 Who thinks that dough was made to spend And acts the way he thinks 649 00:44:08,175 --> 00:44:10,886 Now is it, Joe, no, no, no 650 00:44:11,595 --> 00:44:14,222 Bernstein, these men who are now with the Inquirer 651 00:44:14,389 --> 00:44:17,017 who were with the Chronicle until yesterday... 652 00:44:17,184 --> 00:44:18,602 Oh, mama, please. 653 00:44:18,768 --> 00:44:20,478 - Give me that. - What? The blond? 654 00:44:20,645 --> 00:44:24,107 - No, the brunette. - Where did you learn that, Charlie? 655 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,528 Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle 656 00:44:28,695 --> 00:44:31,698 weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle policy 657 00:44:31,865 --> 00:44:34,034 as they are now to our policies? 658 00:44:34,201 --> 00:44:36,912 Sure, they're just like anybody else. 659 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,206 They got work to do, they do it. 660 00:44:39,497 --> 00:44:42,459 Only they happen to be the best men in the business. 661 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:55,138 Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for? 662 00:44:55,305 --> 00:44:57,098 Certainly not. 663 00:44:58,099 --> 00:45:03,146 Listen, Mr. Kane, he'll have them changed to his kind of newspapermen in a week. 664 00:45:03,313 --> 00:45:07,651 There's always a chance, of course, that they'll change Mr. Kane. 665 00:45:07,817 --> 00:45:09,194 Without his knowing it. 666 00:45:12,697 --> 00:45:16,284 Mr. Leland, I got a cable from Mr. Kane! 667 00:45:17,327 --> 00:45:21,331 - Mr. Leland! I got a cable from Mr. Kane. - What? 668 00:45:21,498 --> 00:45:23,375 - From Paris, France. - What? 669 00:45:23,541 --> 00:45:26,503 - From Paris, France. - Come on in. 670 00:45:27,420 --> 00:45:32,342 Who by his action Has the traction magnates on the run 671 00:45:32,676 --> 00:45:37,722 It's a good thing he promised not to send back any more statues. 672 00:45:37,889 --> 00:45:38,974 Bernstein, Bernstein. 673 00:45:39,140 --> 00:45:41,810 Look, he wants to buy the world's biggest diamond. 674 00:45:41,977 --> 00:45:45,438 Why didn't you go to Europe with him? He wanted you to. 675 00:45:45,605 --> 00:45:48,108 I wanted Charlie to have fun, with me along... 676 00:45:48,275 --> 00:45:50,402 Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? 677 00:45:50,568 --> 00:45:55,448 Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England schoolmarm? 678 00:45:56,199 --> 00:45:57,534 Yes. 679 00:45:58,785 --> 00:46:03,290 If you thought I'd answer you different from what Mr. Kane tells you, I wouldn't. 680 00:46:03,456 --> 00:46:04,791 "World's biggest diamond." 681 00:46:04,958 --> 00:46:07,126 I didn't know Charlie was collecting diamonds. 682 00:46:07,210 --> 00:46:08,378 He ain't. 683 00:46:08,545 --> 00:46:12,173 He's collecting somebody that's collecting diamonds. 684 00:46:12,632 --> 00:46:15,719 Anyway, he ain't only collecting statues. 685 00:46:17,804 --> 00:46:19,848 "Welcome home, Mr. Kane 686 00:46:20,015 --> 00:46:23,685 from 467 employees of the New York Inquirer." 687 00:46:23,852 --> 00:46:25,353 Here he comes! 688 00:46:29,399 --> 00:46:31,192 Welcome, Mr. Kane. 689 00:46:31,985 --> 00:46:33,819 - I know I've a mustache. - It looks awful. 690 00:46:33,903 --> 00:46:37,407 Have we got a society editor? 691 00:46:37,574 --> 00:46:40,493 - Right here, Mr. Kane. - Miss Townsend is the society editor. 692 00:46:40,577 --> 00:46:43,246 Miss Townsend, this is Mr. Charles Foster Kane. 693 00:46:43,455 --> 00:46:48,585 Uh... Miss Townsend, I've been away so long. I don't know your routine. 694 00:46:49,711 --> 00:46:52,756 I got a little social announcement. 695 00:46:52,922 --> 00:46:56,926 I wish you wouldn't treat it any differently than you would any other 696 00:46:57,093 --> 00:46:58,762 social announcement. 697 00:46:59,387 --> 00:47:02,390 Mr. Kane, on behalf of all the employees of the Inquirer... 698 00:47:02,557 --> 00:47:06,061 Mr. Bernstein, thank you very much, everybody, I... 699 00:47:06,936 --> 00:47:11,066 I'm sorry, I can't accept it now. 700 00:47:11,232 --> 00:47:12,692 Goodbye. 701 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,570 Say, he was in an awful hurry. 702 00:47:15,737 --> 00:47:18,615 Hey, everybody, look out here. 703 00:47:18,782 --> 00:47:20,742 Let's go to the window. 704 00:47:20,950 --> 00:47:23,787 - Mr. Leland! Mr. Bernstein! - Yes, Ms. Townsend? 705 00:47:23,953 --> 00:47:26,748 This announcement: "Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Monroe Norton" 706 00:47:26,915 --> 00:47:30,377 announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Monroe Norton 707 00:47:30,543 --> 00:47:32,295 - "to Mr. Charles Foster Kane." - Huh? 708 00:47:32,379 --> 00:47:33,880 Come on. 709 00:47:36,049 --> 00:47:41,096 Emily Monroe Norton, she's the niece of the President of the United States. 710 00:47:41,262 --> 00:47:43,348 President's niece? 711 00:47:43,556 --> 00:47:46,101 Before he's through, she'll be a president's wife. 712 00:47:54,984 --> 00:47:58,321 The way things turned out, I don't need to tell you. 713 00:47:58,488 --> 00:48:01,241 Miss Emily Norton was no rosebud. 714 00:48:01,408 --> 00:48:03,660 It didn't end very well, did it? 715 00:48:03,827 --> 00:48:05,453 It ended. 716 00:48:06,246 --> 00:48:10,041 Then there was Susie. That ended too. 717 00:48:12,085 --> 00:48:15,004 You know, Mr. Thompson, I was thinking 718 00:48:15,505 --> 00:48:18,466 this Rosebud you're trying to find out about... 719 00:48:19,676 --> 00:48:21,010 Yes? 720 00:48:25,432 --> 00:48:27,851 Maybe that was something he lost. 721 00:48:28,685 --> 00:48:32,021 Mr. Kane was a man who lost almost everything he had. 722 00:48:32,689 --> 00:48:34,899 You ought to see Jed Leland. 723 00:48:35,066 --> 00:48:38,194 Of course, he and Mr. Kane didn't exactly see eye to eye. 724 00:48:38,361 --> 00:48:40,238 You take the Spanish-American war. 725 00:48:40,405 --> 00:48:43,700 I guess Mr. Leland was right. That was Mr. Kane's war. 726 00:48:43,867 --> 00:48:46,828 We didn't really have anything to fight about. 727 00:48:47,579 --> 00:48:51,207 Do you think if it hadn't been for that war of Mr. Kane's 728 00:48:51,499 --> 00:48:54,252 we'd have the Panama Canal? 729 00:48:54,878 --> 00:48:57,380 I wish I knew where Mr. Leland was. 730 00:48:58,006 --> 00:49:01,176 A lot of the time now they don't tell me these things. 731 00:49:02,469 --> 00:49:04,262 Maybe even he's dead. 732 00:49:04,429 --> 00:49:06,055 In case you'd like to know 733 00:49:06,222 --> 00:49:09,172 he's at the Huntington Memorial Hospital on 180th Street. 734 00:49:09,267 --> 00:49:10,685 You don't say. I had... 735 00:49:10,852 --> 00:49:13,729 Nothing particular the matter with him, they tell me, just... 736 00:49:13,813 --> 00:49:16,399 Just old age. 737 00:49:17,692 --> 00:49:22,572 It's the only disease that you don't look forward to being cured of. 738 00:49:34,709 --> 00:49:37,504 I can remember absolutely everything, young man. 739 00:49:37,670 --> 00:49:38,880 That's my curse. 740 00:49:39,047 --> 00:49:43,593 That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race: Memory. 741 00:49:44,552 --> 00:49:49,390 I was his oldest friend, and as far as I was concerned, he behaved like a swine. 742 00:49:49,599 --> 00:49:53,728 Not that Charlie was ever brutal. He just did brutal things. 743 00:49:54,479 --> 00:49:58,775 Maybe I wasn't his friend, but if I wasn't, he never had one. 744 00:49:59,025 --> 00:50:02,570 Maybe I was what you nowadays call a stooge. 745 00:50:02,737 --> 00:50:04,989 You were about to say something about Rosebud. 746 00:50:05,156 --> 00:50:07,283 Do you happen to have a good cigar? 747 00:50:07,450 --> 00:50:11,246 I've got a young physician here who thinks I'm going to give up smoking. 748 00:50:11,412 --> 00:50:13,914 - No, I'm afraid I haven't. Sorry. - Oh, oh. Ha, ha. 749 00:50:13,998 --> 00:50:15,625 I changed the subject, didn't I? 750 00:50:15,792 --> 00:50:17,919 What a disagreeable old man I have become. 751 00:50:19,295 --> 00:50:24,467 You're a reporter and you want to know what I think about Charlie Kane. 752 00:50:24,968 --> 00:50:27,303 Well... Heh. 753 00:50:27,470 --> 00:50:29,931 I suppose he had some private sort of greatness. 754 00:50:30,098 --> 00:50:31,724 But he kept it to himself. 755 00:50:31,891 --> 00:50:34,769 He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away. 756 00:50:34,936 --> 00:50:37,897 He just left you a tip. 757 00:50:38,064 --> 00:50:40,692 Hmm? Heh. He had a generous mind. 758 00:50:40,858 --> 00:50:44,028 I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. 759 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,990 But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. 760 00:50:47,156 --> 00:50:50,743 He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. 761 00:50:50,994 --> 00:50:53,204 I suppose he died without one. 762 00:50:53,371 --> 00:50:55,999 That must have been pretty unpleasant. 763 00:50:56,332 --> 00:51:00,920 Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death. 764 00:51:01,087 --> 00:51:04,340 But we do know what we're leaving. We do believe in something. 765 00:51:05,008 --> 00:51:08,011 Are you absolutely sure you haven't got a cigar? 766 00:51:08,177 --> 00:51:10,138 - Sorry, Mr. Leland. - Never mind. 767 00:51:10,305 --> 00:51:13,683 - What do you know about Rosebud? - "Rosebud"? 768 00:51:13,850 --> 00:51:18,104 Oh. Oh. His dying words: "Rosebud." 769 00:51:18,438 --> 00:51:20,523 I saw that in the Inquirer. 770 00:51:21,524 --> 00:51:24,485 I never believed anything I saw in the Inquirer. 771 00:51:24,652 --> 00:51:25,987 Anything else? 772 00:51:26,154 --> 00:51:29,824 I can tell you about Emily. I went to dancing school with Emily. 773 00:51:30,199 --> 00:51:31,993 I was very graceful. 774 00:51:32,952 --> 00:51:36,247 - We were talking about the first Mrs. Kane. - What was she like? 775 00:51:36,414 --> 00:51:38,958 She was like all the girls I knew in dancing school. 776 00:51:39,042 --> 00:51:41,753 Very nice girl. Emily was a little nicer. 777 00:51:43,504 --> 00:51:45,506 After the first couple of months 778 00:51:45,673 --> 00:51:49,927 she and Charlie didn't see much of each other except at breakfast. 779 00:51:50,595 --> 00:51:53,264 It was a marriage just like any other marriage. 780 00:52:03,483 --> 00:52:05,109 - You're beautiful. - I can't be. 781 00:52:05,276 --> 00:52:07,027 Yes, you are. You're very beautiful. 782 00:52:07,111 --> 00:52:09,656 I've never been to six parties in one night before. 783 00:52:09,906 --> 00:52:12,658 - I've never been up this late. - It's a matter of habit. 784 00:52:12,742 --> 00:52:15,692 - What will the servants think? - That we enjoyed ourselves. 785 00:52:15,787 --> 00:52:18,330 Why do you have to go straight off to the newspaper? 786 00:52:18,414 --> 00:52:22,085 You never should've married a newspaperman, they're worse than sailors. 787 00:52:23,002 --> 00:52:24,921 I absolutely adore you. 788 00:52:25,755 --> 00:52:28,675 Charles, even newspapermen have to sleep. 789 00:52:30,134 --> 00:52:33,971 I'll call Mr. Bernstein and have him put off my appointments till noon. 790 00:52:34,931 --> 00:52:36,432 What time is it? 791 00:52:36,599 --> 00:52:38,559 I don't know. It's late. 792 00:52:40,645 --> 00:52:42,605 It's early. 793 00:52:42,772 --> 00:52:44,440 Charles... 794 00:52:45,024 --> 00:52:47,944 Do you know how long you kept me waiting last night 795 00:52:48,111 --> 00:52:50,905 when you went to the newspaper for 10 minutes? 796 00:52:51,114 --> 00:52:54,283 What do you do in a newspaper in the middle of the night? 797 00:52:54,450 --> 00:52:59,414 My dear, your only correspondent is the Inquirer. 798 00:52:59,580 --> 00:53:02,330 Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood. 799 00:53:02,458 --> 00:53:04,919 I don't spend that much time on the newspaper. 800 00:53:05,086 --> 00:53:09,090 It isn't just the time. It's what you print, attacking the president. 801 00:53:09,257 --> 00:53:12,468 - You mean Uncle John. - I mean the president of the United States. 802 00:53:12,552 --> 00:53:15,012 He's still Uncle John and a well-meaning fathead 803 00:53:15,096 --> 00:53:18,474 who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. 804 00:53:18,558 --> 00:53:22,270 - This whole oil scandal... - He happens to be the president, not you. 805 00:53:22,437 --> 00:53:25,230 That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days. 806 00:53:25,314 --> 00:53:31,237 Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday. 807 00:53:31,404 --> 00:53:34,240 I simply can't have it in the nursery. 808 00:53:36,325 --> 00:53:39,370 Mr. Bernstein is apt to pay a visit to the nursery now and then. 809 00:53:39,454 --> 00:53:40,955 Does he have to? 810 00:53:42,331 --> 00:53:43,374 Yes. 811 00:53:43,541 --> 00:53:48,337 - Really, Charles, people will think... - What I tell them to think. 812 00:54:06,773 --> 00:54:08,816 Wasn't he ever in love with her? 813 00:54:08,983 --> 00:54:10,735 He married for love. 814 00:54:11,652 --> 00:54:13,029 Love. 815 00:54:13,696 --> 00:54:15,364 That is why he did everything. 816 00:54:15,531 --> 00:54:18,450 That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough. 817 00:54:18,534 --> 00:54:21,579 He wanted all the voters to love him too. 818 00:54:22,246 --> 00:54:25,249 All he wanted out of life was love. 819 00:54:25,583 --> 00:54:28,836 That's Charlie's story. How he lost it. 820 00:54:29,045 --> 00:54:32,715 You see, he just didn't have any to give. 821 00:54:33,216 --> 00:54:35,426 He loved Charlie Kane, of course. 822 00:54:36,803 --> 00:54:38,054 Very dearly. 823 00:54:38,763 --> 00:54:40,932 And his mother, I guess he always loved her. 824 00:54:41,098 --> 00:54:44,143 - How about his second wife? - Susan Alexander? 825 00:54:44,894 --> 00:54:47,063 You know what Charlie called her? 826 00:54:47,271 --> 00:54:50,066 The day after he'd met her, he told me about her. 827 00:54:50,233 --> 00:54:54,987 He said she was "a cross-section of the American public." 828 00:54:57,365 --> 00:55:00,952 I guess he couldn't help it. She must have had something for him. 829 00:55:01,118 --> 00:55:03,913 That first night, according to Charlie 830 00:55:04,956 --> 00:55:07,625 all she had was a toothache. 831 00:55:38,531 --> 00:55:40,908 What are you laughing at, young lady? 832 00:55:41,409 --> 00:55:42,618 Ooh. 833 00:55:42,785 --> 00:55:45,454 - What's the matter with you? - Toothache. 834 00:55:45,621 --> 00:55:47,290 - What? - Toothache. 835 00:55:47,456 --> 00:55:48,791 Toothache? 836 00:55:50,126 --> 00:55:52,044 Oh. Oh. 837 00:55:52,211 --> 00:55:53,811 You mean you've got a toothache. 838 00:55:55,131 --> 00:55:57,967 - What's funny about that? - You're funny, mister. 839 00:55:58,134 --> 00:56:00,719 - You've got dirt on your face. - Not dirt, it's mud. 840 00:56:00,803 --> 00:56:03,053 Do you want some hot water? I live right here. 841 00:56:03,180 --> 00:56:05,141 What's that, young lady? 842 00:56:06,392 --> 00:56:08,811 I said, if you wanted some hot water 843 00:56:09,145 --> 00:56:11,147 I could get you some 844 00:56:12,148 --> 00:56:13,774 hot water. 845 00:56:16,903 --> 00:56:19,196 All right, thank you very much. 846 00:56:33,544 --> 00:56:35,463 Do I look any better now? 847 00:56:35,630 --> 00:56:40,343 - This medicine doesn't do a bit of good. - What you need is to get your mind off it. 848 00:56:40,635 --> 00:56:42,053 Hey. 849 00:56:45,514 --> 00:56:48,643 Excuse me, but my landlady prefers me to keep this door open 850 00:56:48,851 --> 00:56:51,312 - when I have a gentleman caller. - All right. 851 00:56:51,479 --> 00:56:53,981 - Oh. - You have got a toothache, haven't you? 852 00:56:54,148 --> 00:56:57,109 - I surely have. - Why don't you try laughing at me again? 853 00:56:57,276 --> 00:56:59,153 - What? - I'm still pretty funny. 854 00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,822 I know, but you don't want me to laugh at you. 855 00:57:01,989 --> 00:57:04,032 - I don't want your tooth to hurt, either. - Ooh. 856 00:57:04,116 --> 00:57:05,368 Look at me. 857 00:57:05,826 --> 00:57:07,954 - See that? - What are you doing? 858 00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,915 I'm wiggling both my ears at the same time. 859 00:57:13,084 --> 00:57:14,293 That's it, smile. 860 00:57:17,546 --> 00:57:21,425 It took me two solid years at the best boys' school in the world to learn that. 861 00:57:21,509 --> 00:57:24,345 The fellow who taught me is now president of Venezuela. 862 00:57:26,597 --> 00:57:27,765 That's it! 863 00:57:31,852 --> 00:57:34,480 - Is it a giraffe? - No, not a giraffe. 864 00:57:34,647 --> 00:57:37,358 - I bet it is. - What? 865 00:57:37,525 --> 00:57:39,610 Well, then it's an elephant. 866 00:57:39,777 --> 00:57:43,739 - It's supposed to be a rooster. - A rooster! 867 00:57:43,906 --> 00:57:47,785 You know an awful lot of tricks. Are you a professional magician? 868 00:57:47,952 --> 00:57:50,454 - No, I'm not a magician. - I was just joking. 869 00:57:50,621 --> 00:57:52,206 You really don't know who I am? 870 00:57:52,373 --> 00:57:55,376 You told me your name, Mr. Kane, but I'm awfully ignorant. 871 00:57:55,543 --> 00:58:00,006 I guess you caught on to that. I bet I've heard your name a million times. 872 00:58:00,172 --> 00:58:03,272 You really like me though, even though you don't know who I am? 873 00:58:03,384 --> 00:58:06,804 I surely do. You've been wonderful. 874 00:58:07,888 --> 00:58:10,558 Without you I don't know what I would have done. 875 00:58:10,725 --> 00:58:14,020 I had a toothache, and I don't know many people. 876 00:58:14,311 --> 00:58:16,230 I know too many people. 877 00:58:16,647 --> 00:58:18,691 I guess we're both lonely. 878 00:58:18,983 --> 00:58:22,903 Want to know what I was going to do before I ruined my best Sunday clothes? 879 00:58:23,070 --> 00:58:26,323 I bet they're not your best Sunday clothes. You probably have more. 880 00:58:26,407 --> 00:58:27,575 I was just joking. 881 00:58:29,285 --> 00:58:33,164 I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse 882 00:58:33,330 --> 00:58:35,332 in search of my youth. 883 00:58:36,417 --> 00:58:40,963 You see, my mother died a long time ago. Her things were put in storage out West. 884 00:58:41,130 --> 00:58:43,507 There wasn't any other place to put them. 885 00:58:43,674 --> 00:58:47,636 I thought I'd send for them now. Tonight I was going to take a look at them. 886 00:58:47,803 --> 00:58:49,555 A sort of sentimental journey. 887 00:58:53,601 --> 00:58:55,801 I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do? 888 00:58:55,895 --> 00:58:57,229 - Me? - Mm-hm. 889 00:58:57,396 --> 00:58:59,564 - How old did you say you were? - I didn't say. 890 00:58:59,648 --> 00:59:02,234 If you had, I wouldn't have asked you. 891 00:59:02,401 --> 00:59:03,569 - How old? - Pretty old. 892 00:59:03,736 --> 00:59:05,738 - How old? - Twenty-two in August. 893 00:59:05,905 --> 00:59:07,823 That's a ripe old age. What do you do? 894 00:59:07,990 --> 00:59:11,452 I work at Seligman's. I'm in charge of the sheet music. 895 00:59:11,702 --> 00:59:16,832 - Is that what you want to do? - No, I wanted to be a singer, I guess. 896 00:59:16,999 --> 00:59:20,649 - That is, I didn't. My mother did for me. - What happened to the singing? 897 00:59:20,753 --> 00:59:24,673 Mother always thought... She always talked about grand opera for me. 898 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,050 Imagine. 899 00:59:26,342 --> 00:59:30,554 But my voice isn't that kind. It's just, you know what mothers are like. 900 00:59:32,348 --> 00:59:33,557 Yes, I know. 901 00:59:35,601 --> 00:59:37,812 - Have you got a piano? - A piano? 902 00:59:37,978 --> 00:59:40,981 - Mm-hm. - Yes, there's one in the parlor. 903 00:59:41,148 --> 00:59:44,235 - Would you sing for me? - You wouldn't want to hear me sing. 904 00:59:44,401 --> 00:59:45,778 Yes, I would. 905 00:59:47,696 --> 00:59:49,823 Don't tell me your toothache is bothering you. 906 00:59:49,907 --> 00:59:51,617 No, that's all gone. 907 00:59:53,369 --> 00:59:55,329 All right. 908 00:59:56,288 --> 00:59:57,998 Let's go to the parlor. 909 00:59:58,541 --> 01:00:05,172 Yes, Lindor shall be mine 910 01:00:05,339 --> 01:00:09,468 I have sworn it 911 01:00:09,635 --> 01:00:14,598 For weal or woe 912 01:00:14,765 --> 01:00:21,765 Yes, Lindor 913 01:00:40,833 --> 01:00:43,252 There is only one man who can rid the politics 914 01:00:43,419 --> 01:00:46,589 of this state of the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys. 915 01:00:46,755 --> 01:00:50,593 I am speaking of Charles Foster Kane, the fighting liberal 916 01:00:50,759 --> 01:00:54,221 the friend of the workingman, the next governor of this state 917 01:00:54,388 --> 01:00:56,599 who entered upon this campaign 918 01:00:56,765 --> 01:00:58,601 with one purpose only: 919 01:00:58,767 --> 01:01:03,105 To point out and make public the dishonesty 920 01:01:03,314 --> 01:01:08,110 the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine 921 01:01:08,444 --> 01:01:12,781 now in complete control of the government of this state. 922 01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:16,952 I made no campaign promises 923 01:01:17,453 --> 01:01:22,249 because, until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of being elected. 924 01:01:23,751 --> 01:01:27,338 Now, however, I have something more than a hope. 925 01:01:29,381 --> 01:01:33,886 Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. 926 01:01:38,098 --> 01:01:39,975 Every straw vote 927 01:01:40,142 --> 01:01:44,980 every independent poll shows that I will be elected. 928 01:01:45,439 --> 01:01:47,149 Very well. 929 01:01:47,316 --> 01:01:49,985 Now I can afford to make some promises. 930 01:01:58,869 --> 01:02:03,958 The workingman and the slum child 931 01:02:04,124 --> 01:02:07,670 know they can expect my best efforts in their interests. 932 01:02:07,836 --> 01:02:12,341 The decent, ordinary citizens know that I'll do everything in my power 933 01:02:12,508 --> 01:02:17,680 to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid, and the underfed. 934 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:25,980 - Mother, is Pop governor yet? - Not yet, Junior. 935 01:02:29,858 --> 01:02:33,195 I'd make my promises now 936 01:02:33,529 --> 01:02:36,991 if I weren't too busy arranging to keep them. 937 01:02:41,537 --> 01:02:44,540 But here's one promise I'll make, 938 01:02:44,707 --> 01:02:48,127 and Boss Jim Gettys knows I'll keep it. 939 01:02:49,003 --> 01:02:51,839 My first official act as governor of this state 940 01:02:52,214 --> 01:02:57,094 will be to appoint a special district attorney to arrange for the indictment 941 01:02:57,344 --> 01:03:02,641 prosecution and conviction of Boss Jim W. Gettys. 942 01:03:29,251 --> 01:03:32,421 If the election were held today, you'd be in by 100,000 votes. 943 01:03:32,588 --> 01:03:34,381 - Gettys isn't even pretending. - Pop. 944 01:03:34,465 --> 01:03:36,675 - Hello, son. - He isn't just scared, he's sick. 945 01:03:36,759 --> 01:03:39,470 It's beginning to dawn on Jim Gettys I mean what I say. 946 01:03:39,636 --> 01:03:42,931 - Did you like your old man's speech? - I could hear every word. 947 01:03:43,098 --> 01:03:44,892 - Hello, Emily. - Hold it. 948 01:03:45,267 --> 01:03:47,478 - Great speech, Mr. Kane. - Wonderful. 949 01:03:47,644 --> 01:03:51,357 - Will you get us a taxi? - A taxi? Why? I thought... 950 01:03:51,732 --> 01:03:54,860 I'm sending Junior home in the car with Oliver. 951 01:03:55,027 --> 01:03:56,528 Good night, Father. 952 01:03:57,946 --> 01:03:59,448 Goodbye, son. 953 01:04:05,245 --> 01:04:06,663 Emily... 954 01:04:10,501 --> 01:04:13,837 Why did you send Junior home in the car? What are you doing in a taxi? 955 01:04:13,921 --> 01:04:15,964 There's a call I want you to make with me. 956 01:04:16,048 --> 01:04:17,966 - It can wait. - No, it can't. 957 01:04:18,133 --> 01:04:21,386 - What's this all about, Emily? - It may not be about anything at all. 958 01:04:21,470 --> 01:04:23,013 I intend to find out. 959 01:04:23,180 --> 01:04:27,476 - Where are you going? - I'm going to "185 West 74th Street." 960 01:04:28,894 --> 01:04:31,230 If you wish, you may come with me. 961 01:04:35,943 --> 01:04:37,653 I'll come with you. 962 01:04:42,658 --> 01:04:46,328 I had no idea you had this flair for melodrama, Emily. 963 01:04:47,663 --> 01:04:49,873 Come right in, Mr. Kane. 964 01:05:00,217 --> 01:05:01,844 Charlie. 965 01:05:08,392 --> 01:05:11,562 He forced me to send your wife that letter. I didn't want to. 966 01:05:11,728 --> 01:05:14,523 He's been saying the most terrible... 967 01:05:18,527 --> 01:05:20,237 Mrs. Kane. 968 01:05:22,239 --> 01:05:24,741 I don't suppose anybody would introduce us. 969 01:05:26,201 --> 01:05:27,786 I'm Jim Gettys. 970 01:05:28,370 --> 01:05:29,538 Yes? 971 01:05:32,791 --> 01:05:36,462 I made Miss Alexander send you the note, Mrs. Kane. 972 01:05:36,628 --> 01:05:38,797 She didn't want to at first. But she did it. 973 01:05:38,881 --> 01:05:40,298 Charlie, the things he said to me. 974 01:05:40,382 --> 01:05:42,676 - He threatened to... - Gettys. 975 01:05:42,885 --> 01:05:46,680 I won't wait until I'm elected. To start with, I think I'll break your neck. 976 01:05:46,847 --> 01:05:49,475 Maybe you can do it, and maybe you can't. 977 01:05:49,641 --> 01:05:54,771 Charles, your breaking this man's neck would scarcely explain this note: 978 01:05:55,731 --> 01:05:59,526 "Serious consequences for Mr. Kane, for yourself and for your son." 979 01:05:59,693 --> 01:06:02,695 - He wanted to get her to come here... - What does this note mean? 980 01:06:02,779 --> 01:06:05,282 I'm Susan Alexander. I know what you think... 981 01:06:05,449 --> 01:06:08,284 - What does this note mean, Ms. Alexander? - She don't know. 982 01:06:08,368 --> 01:06:11,162 She sent it because I told her it wouldn't be smart not to. 983 01:06:11,246 --> 01:06:14,541 - Emily, this gentleman... - I'm not a gentleman. 984 01:06:14,750 --> 01:06:17,586 Your husband is only trying to be funny calling me one. 985 01:06:17,753 --> 01:06:20,297 I don't even know what a gentleman is. 986 01:06:21,340 --> 01:06:24,593 You see, my idea of a gentleman... Heh. 987 01:06:27,763 --> 01:06:31,224 If I owned a paper and didn't like the way somebody was doing things 988 01:06:31,308 --> 01:06:33,708 some politician, I'd fight him with all I had. 989 01:06:33,810 --> 01:06:35,645 I wouldn't show him in a convict suit, 990 01:06:35,729 --> 01:06:38,064 so his children could see his picture in the paper. 991 01:06:38,148 --> 01:06:42,069 - You're a cheap, crooked grafter... - We're talking now about what you are. 992 01:06:42,986 --> 01:06:45,781 I'm fighting for my life, not just my political life. 993 01:06:45,948 --> 01:06:48,048 - He said unless you... - That's what I said. 994 01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:52,203 Here's the chance I'm willing to give him. It's more of a chance than he'd give me. 995 01:06:52,287 --> 01:06:56,959 Unless he decides by tomorrow that he's so sick he has to go away for a year 996 01:06:57,125 --> 01:07:01,379 Monday morning, all papers in the state, except his, will carry the story I'll give. 997 01:07:01,463 --> 01:07:02,839 What story? 998 01:07:03,632 --> 01:07:06,832 - The story about him and Ms. Alexander. - There isn't any story! 999 01:07:06,927 --> 01:07:08,136 Shut up. 1000 01:07:08,470 --> 01:07:11,223 We've got evidence that would look bad in the headlines. 1001 01:07:11,390 --> 01:07:14,017 Do you want me to give you the evidence? 1002 01:07:16,144 --> 01:07:18,980 I'd rather he withdrew without having the story published. 1003 01:07:19,064 --> 01:07:22,109 Not that I care about him, but I'd be better off that way. 1004 01:07:25,028 --> 01:07:27,155 So would you, Mrs. Kane. 1005 01:07:27,531 --> 01:07:29,616 What about me? 1006 01:07:31,618 --> 01:07:35,372 He said my name would be dragged through the mud. That everywhere I went... 1007 01:07:35,539 --> 01:07:38,750 There seems to be only one decision you can make, Charles. 1008 01:07:38,917 --> 01:07:41,169 I'd say that it'd been made for you. 1009 01:07:42,838 --> 01:07:45,038 You can't tell me the voters of this state... 1010 01:07:45,173 --> 01:07:47,967 I'm not interested in the voters of this state right now. 1011 01:07:48,051 --> 01:07:49,428 I am interested in our son. 1012 01:07:49,595 --> 01:07:52,723 - Charlie, if they publish this story... - They won't. 1013 01:07:54,016 --> 01:07:56,184 Good night, Mr. Gettys. 1014 01:08:05,652 --> 01:08:07,195 Are you coming, Charles? 1015 01:08:09,406 --> 01:08:10,741 No. 1016 01:08:14,161 --> 01:08:15,787 I'm staying here. 1017 01:08:18,915 --> 01:08:21,043 I can fight this all alone. 1018 01:08:22,252 --> 01:08:24,713 If you don't listen to reason, it may be too late. 1019 01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,548 Too late? 1020 01:08:28,175 --> 01:08:29,843 For what? 1021 01:08:30,886 --> 01:08:34,181 For you and this public thief 1022 01:08:34,514 --> 01:08:36,814 to take the love of the people away from me? 1023 01:08:36,933 --> 01:08:39,645 You got other things to think about. Your little boy. 1024 01:08:39,811 --> 01:08:42,311 You don't want him to read about you in the papers. 1025 01:08:42,397 --> 01:08:46,902 There's only one person in the world to decide what I'll do. And that's me. 1026 01:08:49,738 --> 01:08:53,742 You decided what you were going to do, Charles, some time ago. 1027 01:09:00,540 --> 01:09:03,209 You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought. 1028 01:09:03,293 --> 01:09:05,670 - I've got nothing to say to you. - You're licked... 1029 01:09:05,754 --> 01:09:09,091 Get out. If you want to see me, have the warden write me a letter. 1030 01:09:09,341 --> 01:09:14,012 If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. 1031 01:09:14,262 --> 01:09:16,973 Only you're going to need more than one lesson. 1032 01:09:17,808 --> 01:09:21,853 - And you'll get more than one lesson. - Don't worry about me, Gettys. 1033 01:09:23,522 --> 01:09:25,607 Don't worry about me! 1034 01:09:26,483 --> 01:09:29,111 I'm Charles Foster Kane! 1035 01:09:29,653 --> 01:09:33,865 I'm no cheap, crooked politician trying to save himself 1036 01:09:34,032 --> 01:09:37,035 from the consequences of his crimes! 1037 01:09:38,078 --> 01:09:42,124 Gettys! I'm gonna send you to Sing Sing. 1038 01:09:42,290 --> 01:09:46,336 Sing Sing, Gettys. Sing Sing! 1039 01:09:47,629 --> 01:09:50,716 - Have you a car, Mrs. Kane? - Yes, thank you. 1040 01:09:51,258 --> 01:09:54,010 - Good night. - Good night. 1041 01:10:04,813 --> 01:10:08,817 Paper. Read all about it. Extra, extra. 1042 01:10:13,321 --> 01:10:15,407 - Paper? - No, thanks. 1043 01:10:30,297 --> 01:10:33,133 With a million majority already against him, 1044 01:10:33,383 --> 01:10:36,720 and the church counties still to be heard from 1045 01:10:36,928 --> 01:10:39,306 I'm afraid we got no choice. 1046 01:10:39,473 --> 01:10:40,849 This one? 1047 01:10:44,311 --> 01:10:46,062 That one. 1048 01:11:09,377 --> 01:11:11,213 Good night again. 1049 01:11:22,390 --> 01:11:26,436 - Is there anything I can...? - No, thanks, Mr. Bernstein. 1050 01:11:27,521 --> 01:11:29,815 You better go home and get some sleep. 1051 01:11:30,899 --> 01:11:32,400 You too. 1052 01:11:33,276 --> 01:11:34,611 Uh-huh. 1053 01:11:34,778 --> 01:11:36,863 Good night, Mr. Kane. 1054 01:12:01,721 --> 01:12:04,599 - Hello, Jedediah. - I'm drunk. 1055 01:12:07,519 --> 01:12:13,567 If you've got drunk to talk to me about... 1056 01:12:15,610 --> 01:12:18,154 Ms. Alexander, don't bother. 1057 01:12:19,990 --> 01:12:21,783 I'm not interested. 1058 01:12:25,996 --> 01:12:30,166 I've set back the sacred cause of reform, is that it? 1059 01:12:31,334 --> 01:12:32,752 All right. 1060 01:12:34,504 --> 01:12:37,757 If that's the way they want it, the people have made their choice. 1061 01:12:37,924 --> 01:12:40,719 It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me. 1062 01:12:40,886 --> 01:12:44,389 You talk about the people as though you owned them. 1063 01:12:44,556 --> 01:12:47,350 As though they belong to you. Goodness. 1064 01:12:47,517 --> 01:12:52,355 As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights 1065 01:12:52,522 --> 01:12:55,734 as if you could make them a present of liberty 1066 01:12:55,901 --> 01:12:58,361 as a reward for services rendered. 1067 01:12:58,528 --> 01:13:01,323 - Jed. - You remember the workingman? 1068 01:13:01,489 --> 01:13:04,326 I'll get drunk too, Jedediah 1069 01:13:05,785 --> 01:13:06,995 if it'll do any good. 1070 01:13:07,162 --> 01:13:10,498 It won't do any good. Besides you never get drunk. 1071 01:13:10,665 --> 01:13:13,315 You used to write an awful lot about the workingman... 1072 01:13:13,418 --> 01:13:14,544 Go on home. 1073 01:13:14,711 --> 01:13:17,714 He's turning into something called "organized labor." 1074 01:13:19,174 --> 01:13:22,469 You won't like that one little bit when you find out 1075 01:13:22,636 --> 01:13:27,724 it means your workingman expects something as his right, and not your gift. 1076 01:13:29,809 --> 01:13:34,689 When your precious underprivileged really get together... 1077 01:13:34,856 --> 01:13:36,733 Oh, boy... 1078 01:13:37,525 --> 01:13:40,445 That'll add up to something bigger than your privilege 1079 01:13:40,612 --> 01:13:43,448 then I don't know what you'll do. 1080 01:13:43,615 --> 01:13:48,870 Sail away to a desert island probably and lord it over the monkeys. 1081 01:13:50,163 --> 01:13:52,332 I wouldn't worry about it too much. 1082 01:13:52,707 --> 01:13:57,587 There'll probably be a few of them there to tell me when I do something wrong. 1083 01:13:57,796 --> 01:13:59,881 You may not always be so lucky. 1084 01:14:00,715 --> 01:14:02,092 You're not very drunk. 1085 01:14:02,258 --> 01:14:04,260 Drunk, what do you care? 1086 01:14:04,678 --> 01:14:07,555 You don't care about anything except you. 1087 01:14:08,556 --> 01:14:14,396 You persuade people that you love them so much that they ought to love you back. 1088 01:14:14,729 --> 01:14:17,357 Only you want love on your own terms. 1089 01:14:19,067 --> 01:14:22,529 It's something to be played your way, according to your rules. 1090 01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:32,580 - Let me work on the Chicago paper. - What? 1091 01:14:32,747 --> 01:14:37,585 You said you were looking for someone to do dramatic "crimitism," criticism. 1092 01:14:37,752 --> 01:14:38,920 I am drunk. 1093 01:14:41,965 --> 01:14:44,300 I want to go to Chicago. 1094 01:14:45,260 --> 01:14:47,220 You're too valuable here. 1095 01:14:49,264 --> 01:14:53,184 - There's nothing left for me to do... - All right, you can go to Chicago. 1096 01:14:53,351 --> 01:14:54,894 Thank you. 1097 01:14:55,645 --> 01:14:58,189 I guess I'd better try to get drunk anyway. 1098 01:14:59,899 --> 01:15:02,318 I warn you, Jedediah, you won't like Chicago. 1099 01:15:02,485 --> 01:15:07,032 The wind comes off the lake, and they've probably never heard of Lobster Newburg. 1100 01:15:07,198 --> 01:15:09,284 Will Saturday after next be all right? 1101 01:15:09,451 --> 01:15:12,078 - Anytime you say. - Thank you. 1102 01:15:17,125 --> 01:15:22,464 A toast to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody knows: 1103 01:15:23,715 --> 01:15:25,175 His own. 1104 01:15:37,854 --> 01:15:40,065 Mr. Kane, I'm from the Inquirer. 1105 01:15:49,657 --> 01:15:52,507 - What's that, young man? - Are you through with politics? 1106 01:15:52,660 --> 01:15:56,247 Am I through with politics? I should say vice versa. 1107 01:15:56,748 --> 01:15:58,374 We're going to be an opera star. 1108 01:15:58,541 --> 01:16:00,341 Are you singing at the Metropolitan? 1109 01:16:00,502 --> 01:16:01,836 We certainly are. 1110 01:16:02,003 --> 01:16:04,839 Charlie said if I didn't, he'd build me an opera house. 1111 01:16:05,006 --> 01:16:06,883 That won't be necessary. 1112 01:16:11,346 --> 01:16:12,680 No, no, no! 1113 01:16:41,668 --> 01:16:43,711 Places, everybody! 1114 01:16:48,216 --> 01:16:49,717 Places, please! 1115 01:17:38,808 --> 01:17:41,561 Mr. Leland is writing it from the dramatic angle? 1116 01:17:41,728 --> 01:17:45,607 - We've covered it from the news end. - And the social. 1117 01:17:46,024 --> 01:17:48,151 How about the music notice? 1118 01:17:48,318 --> 01:17:50,236 Yes, it's already made up. 1119 01:17:50,403 --> 01:17:53,489 Mr. Mowan wrote a swell review. 1120 01:17:55,158 --> 01:17:57,243 - Enthusiastic? - Yes, sir. 1121 01:17:57,410 --> 01:17:58,953 - Naturally. - Mr. Bernstein. 1122 01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,998 - Mr. Kane. - Mr. Kane. This is a surprise. 1123 01:18:04,083 --> 01:18:06,002 We've got two spreads of pictures. 1124 01:18:06,169 --> 01:18:07,962 The music notice on the front page? 1125 01:18:08,129 --> 01:18:12,217 But there's still one notice to come. The dramatic. 1126 01:18:12,884 --> 01:18:14,677 The dramatic notice. 1127 01:18:15,595 --> 01:18:20,683 - Mr. Bernstein, that's Mr. Leland, isn't it? - Yes, we're waiting for it. 1128 01:18:24,020 --> 01:18:27,106 - Where is he? - Right in there, Mr. Kane. 1129 01:18:35,114 --> 01:18:36,824 Mr. Kane... 1130 01:18:39,494 --> 01:18:41,496 Mr. Kane... 1131 01:18:51,297 --> 01:18:53,967 Mr. Leland and Mr. Kane 1132 01:18:55,093 --> 01:18:58,721 haven't spoken together for years. 1133 01:19:00,974 --> 01:19:04,018 - You don't suppose... - There's nothing to suppose. 1134 01:19:08,022 --> 01:19:09,857 Excuse me. 1135 01:19:26,374 --> 01:19:27,875 Close the door. 1136 01:19:31,212 --> 01:19:34,132 He ain't been drinking before. 1137 01:19:34,632 --> 01:19:36,968 Never. We would have heard. 1138 01:19:37,135 --> 01:19:39,053 What does it say there? 1139 01:19:39,512 --> 01:19:42,307 The notice, what's he written? 1140 01:19:43,891 --> 01:19:49,439 "Miss Susan Alexander, a pretty but hopelessly incompetent amateur..." 1141 01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:56,237 last night opened the new Chicago Opera House 1142 01:19:56,571 --> 01:19:58,573 "in a performance of..." 1143 01:20:01,409 --> 01:20:05,496 I still can't pronounce that name. 1144 01:20:08,458 --> 01:20:12,754 "Her singing, happily, is no concern of this department. 1145 01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:17,258 Of her acting, it is absolutely impossible to..." 1146 01:20:18,468 --> 01:20:19,927 Go on. 1147 01:20:21,512 --> 01:20:24,098 - Go on. - That's all there is. 1148 01:20:37,195 --> 01:20:40,698 "Of her acting it is absolutely impossible to say anything except 1149 01:20:40,865 --> 01:20:44,452 that, in the opinion of this reviewer, it represents a new low." 1150 01:20:44,619 --> 01:20:47,455 - In the opinion of this reviewer. - I didn't see that. 1151 01:20:47,622 --> 01:20:49,922 It isn't here, Mr. Bernstein, I'm dictating it. 1152 01:20:50,083 --> 01:20:52,960 - Mr. Kane, I... - Get me a typewriter. 1153 01:20:54,420 --> 01:20:57,090 I'm going to finish Mr. Leland's notice. 1154 01:21:13,898 --> 01:21:16,109 Hello, Bernstein. 1155 01:21:20,947 --> 01:21:23,366 - Hello. - Hello, Mr. Leland. 1156 01:21:27,578 --> 01:21:30,748 Where's my notice, Bernstein? I've got to finish my notice. 1157 01:21:30,915 --> 01:21:34,585 - Mr. Kane is finishing it for you. - Charlie? 1158 01:21:36,921 --> 01:21:38,339 Charlie? 1159 01:21:40,133 --> 01:21:42,468 Charlie out there? 1160 01:21:44,220 --> 01:21:45,888 I guess he's fixing it up. 1161 01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:51,894 I knew I'd never get that through. 1162 01:21:52,353 --> 01:21:56,357 Mr. Kane's finishing your review just the way you started it. 1163 01:21:56,774 --> 01:22:00,987 He's writing a bad notice like you wanted it to be. 1164 01:22:02,989 --> 01:22:05,366 I guess that'll show you. 1165 01:22:29,891 --> 01:22:31,809 Hello, Jedediah. 1166 01:22:35,062 --> 01:22:36,898 Hello, Charlie. 1167 01:22:38,107 --> 01:22:40,568 I didn't know we were speaking. 1168 01:22:41,277 --> 01:22:43,821 Sure we're speaking, Jedediah. 1169 01:22:45,573 --> 01:22:47,742 You're fired. 1170 01:23:00,046 --> 01:23:05,218 Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland, but why did he do it? 1171 01:23:06,093 --> 01:23:09,243 - How could a man write a notice... - You just don't know Charlie. 1172 01:23:09,388 --> 01:23:13,226 He thought that by finishing that notice he'd show me he was an honest man. 1173 01:23:13,392 --> 01:23:15,561 He was always trying to prove something. 1174 01:23:15,728 --> 01:23:18,773 That whole thing about Susie being an opera singer. 1175 01:23:18,940 --> 01:23:21,150 That was trying to prove something. 1176 01:23:21,943 --> 01:23:25,279 You know what the headline was the day before the election? 1177 01:23:25,655 --> 01:23:31,494 "Candidate Kane found in love nest with 'singer.'" 1178 01:23:31,661 --> 01:23:33,871 He was going to take the quotes off the singer. 1179 01:23:33,955 --> 01:23:35,039 Hey, nurse! 1180 01:23:35,206 --> 01:23:39,252 Five years ago he wrote from that place down there in the South. 1181 01:23:39,418 --> 01:23:46,418 What's it called, Shangri-la? El Dorado? Sloppy Joe's? What's the name? 1182 01:23:48,135 --> 01:23:52,431 All right, Xanadu, I knew it all the time. 1183 01:23:52,598 --> 01:23:56,686 You caught on, didn't you? I'm not that hard to see through. 1184 01:23:57,103 --> 01:23:59,480 Well, I never even answered his letter. 1185 01:24:00,273 --> 01:24:01,607 Maybe I should have. 1186 01:24:01,774 --> 01:24:05,820 I guess he was pretty lonely down there in that coliseum all those years. 1187 01:24:06,237 --> 01:24:09,287 He hadn't finished it when she left him. He never finished it. 1188 01:24:09,448 --> 01:24:12,660 He never finished anything except my notice. 1189 01:24:12,994 --> 01:24:16,205 - Of course, he built the joint for her. - That must have been love. 1190 01:24:16,289 --> 01:24:17,540 I don't know. 1191 01:24:17,707 --> 01:24:22,003 He was disappointed in the world so he built his own, an absolute monarchy. 1192 01:24:22,670 --> 01:24:25,172 It was something bigger than an opera house anyway. 1193 01:24:25,339 --> 01:24:26,674 - Nurse. - Yes, Mr. Leland. 1194 01:24:26,841 --> 01:24:28,175 I'm coming. 1195 01:24:29,719 --> 01:24:33,180 - There's one thing you can do for me. - Sure. 1196 01:24:33,347 --> 01:24:37,727 Stop at the cigar store on your way out, and get me a couple of good cigars. 1197 01:24:37,893 --> 01:24:40,187 - Be glad to. - Thank you. 1198 01:24:40,646 --> 01:24:42,064 One is enough. 1199 01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:46,694 When I was a young man, there was an impression that nurses were pretty. 1200 01:24:46,861 --> 01:24:49,029 Well, it was no truer then than it is today. 1201 01:24:49,113 --> 01:24:51,157 - I'll take your arm. - All right. 1202 01:24:51,324 --> 01:24:54,035 - You won't forget about those cigars? - I won't. 1203 01:24:54,201 --> 01:24:59,081 Have them wrapped like toothpaste, or they'll stop them at the desk. 1204 01:24:59,248 --> 01:25:02,125 You know that young doctor I was telling you about, well 1205 01:25:02,209 --> 01:25:05,087 he's got an idea he wants to keep me alive. 1206 01:25:35,368 --> 01:25:39,914 I'd rather you'd just talk. Anything that comes into your mind 1207 01:25:40,081 --> 01:25:42,291 about yourself and Mr. Kane. 1208 01:25:42,500 --> 01:25:47,838 You don't want to hear what comes into my mind about myself and Charlie Kane. 1209 01:25:49,382 --> 01:25:54,178 You know, maybe I shouldn't have sung for Charlie that first time I met him. 1210 01:25:55,429 --> 01:25:58,766 But I did an awful lot of singing after that. 1211 01:26:00,226 --> 01:26:04,021 I sang for teachers at $100 an hour. 1212 01:26:04,188 --> 01:26:06,773 - The teachers got that, I didn't. - What did you get? 1213 01:26:06,857 --> 01:26:10,357 I didn't get a thing, except music lessons. That's all there was in it. 1214 01:26:10,486 --> 01:26:11,862 He married you, didn't he? 1215 01:26:12,029 --> 01:26:15,490 He didn't mention anything about marriage until after it was over and 1216 01:26:15,574 --> 01:26:17,785 until it got in the papers about us, 1217 01:26:17,952 --> 01:26:22,832 and he lost the election, and that Norton woman divorced him. 1218 01:26:23,165 --> 01:26:25,042 He was really interested in my voice. 1219 01:26:25,209 --> 01:26:26,877 Why did he build that opera house? 1220 01:26:26,961 --> 01:26:30,798 I didn't want it. I didn't want a thing. It was his idea. 1221 01:26:32,174 --> 01:26:34,260 Everything was his idea... 1222 01:26:37,221 --> 01:26:39,223 except my leaving him. 1223 01:26:47,189 --> 01:26:48,649 Don't forget. 1224 01:26:48,816 --> 01:26:51,819 Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta. 1225 01:26:51,986 --> 01:26:53,446 Don't get nervous. 1226 01:26:53,612 --> 01:26:56,240 Please. Let's come back. 1227 01:26:57,825 --> 01:27:00,995 Look at me, Mrs. Kane, darling. 1228 01:27:01,162 --> 01:27:03,205 Get the voice out of the throat 1229 01:27:05,666 --> 01:27:10,087 Place the tone right in the mask 1230 01:27:16,302 --> 01:27:18,012 Diaphragm. 1231 01:27:25,144 --> 01:27:26,771 You're out of pitch. 1232 01:27:31,192 --> 01:27:34,278 Some people can sing. Some can't. 1233 01:27:34,445 --> 01:27:36,947 Impossible. Impossible! 1234 01:27:37,114 --> 01:27:40,576 It's not your job to give your opinion of Mrs. Kane's talents. 1235 01:27:41,911 --> 01:27:45,539 You're supposed to train her voice, Signor Matiste. Nothing more. 1236 01:27:46,207 --> 01:27:47,917 Please continue with the lesson. 1237 01:27:48,083 --> 01:27:50,503 - But, Mr. Kane. - Please. 1238 01:27:51,504 --> 01:27:55,299 I'll be the laughingstock of the musical world. People will think... 1239 01:27:55,466 --> 01:27:58,302 You're concerned what people will think? 1240 01:27:58,469 --> 01:28:02,890 Perhaps I can enlighten you a bit. I'm an authority on what people will think. 1241 01:28:03,057 --> 01:28:05,518 Heh. The newspapers for example. 1242 01:28:05,768 --> 01:28:08,518 I run several newspapers between here and San Francisco. 1243 01:28:08,604 --> 01:28:10,022 It's all right, darling. 1244 01:28:10,231 --> 01:28:12,733 Signor Matiste is going to listen to reason. 1245 01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:16,153 - How can I persuade you... - You can't. 1246 01:28:42,388 --> 01:28:44,515 It's all right, darling, go ahead. 1247 01:28:56,277 --> 01:28:59,029 I thought you'd see it my way. 1248 01:29:09,707 --> 01:29:12,459 No, no, no. 1249 01:29:22,094 --> 01:29:24,555 Places! Places! 1250 01:29:31,645 --> 01:29:34,189 Places! Places, everybody! 1251 01:30:59,358 --> 01:31:00,734 I think it's dreadful. 1252 01:32:40,250 --> 01:32:45,339 Stop telling me he's your friend. A friend don't write that kind of review. 1253 01:32:45,506 --> 01:32:48,592 All these other papers panning me, I could expect that. 1254 01:32:49,968 --> 01:32:52,637 But for the Inquirer to run a thing like that, spoiling my whole debut. 1255 01:32:52,721 --> 01:32:54,431 - Come in. - I'll get it. 1256 01:32:54,598 --> 01:32:57,392 Friend. Not the kind of friends I know, 1257 01:32:57,684 --> 01:32:59,937 but I'm not high class like you. 1258 01:33:00,104 --> 01:33:02,004 And I never went to any swell schools. 1259 01:33:02,106 --> 01:33:03,440 That'll be enough, Susan. 1260 01:33:03,607 --> 01:33:05,275 - From Mr. Leland, sir. - Jed Leland? 1261 01:33:05,359 --> 01:33:08,487 He wanted me to make sure you got this personally. 1262 01:33:08,779 --> 01:33:11,406 Is that something from him? 1263 01:33:12,866 --> 01:33:14,368 Charlie! 1264 01:33:14,868 --> 01:33:18,705 As for you, you ought to have your head examined. 1265 01:33:18,914 --> 01:33:21,416 Sending him a letter telling him he's fired 1266 01:33:21,583 --> 01:33:24,002 with a $25,000 check in it. 1267 01:33:24,169 --> 01:33:27,047 What kind of firing do you call that? 1268 01:33:27,339 --> 01:33:31,593 You did send him a check for $25,000, didn't you? 1269 01:33:32,886 --> 01:33:34,179 Yes. 1270 01:33:36,390 --> 01:33:39,601 I sent him a check for $25,000. 1271 01:33:42,229 --> 01:33:43,689 What's that? 1272 01:33:44,898 --> 01:33:46,358 Declaration of Principles. 1273 01:33:46,692 --> 01:33:48,944 - What? What is it? - Hmm? 1274 01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:59,580 - An antique. - You're awful funny, aren't you? 1275 01:34:00,122 --> 01:34:04,376 I'll tell you one thing you're not going to be funny about, and that's my singing. 1276 01:34:04,543 --> 01:34:08,255 I'm through. I never wanted to do it in the first place. 1277 01:34:08,755 --> 01:34:10,805 You'll continue with your singing, Susan. 1278 01:34:10,966 --> 01:34:13,927 I don't propose to have myself made ridiculous. 1279 01:34:14,094 --> 01:34:17,514 You don't propose to have yourself made ridiculous! 1280 01:34:17,681 --> 01:34:20,934 What about me? I'm the one that has to sing. 1281 01:34:21,101 --> 01:34:24,646 I'm the one that gets the raspberries. Why don't you leave me alone? 1282 01:34:24,813 --> 01:34:26,607 My reasons satisfy me, Susan. 1283 01:34:26,773 --> 01:34:28,942 You seem unable to understand them. 1284 01:34:29,818 --> 01:34:32,070 I will not tell them to you again. 1285 01:34:35,741 --> 01:34:37,951 You'll continue with your singing. 1286 01:36:10,377 --> 01:36:12,212 Get Dr. Corey. 1287 01:36:16,633 --> 01:36:18,051 Susan. 1288 01:36:18,593 --> 01:36:22,222 She'll be perfectly all right in a day or two, Mr. Kane. 1289 01:36:24,224 --> 01:36:28,270 I can't imagine how Mrs. Kane came to make such a foolish mistake. 1290 01:36:28,770 --> 01:36:33,358 The sedative Dr. Wagner gave her was in a somewhat larger bottle. 1291 01:36:33,734 --> 01:36:38,155 The strain of preparing for the new opera has excited and confused her. 1292 01:36:38,322 --> 01:36:40,532 Yes, I'm sure that was it. 1293 01:36:41,325 --> 01:36:44,077 No objections to my staying with her, are there? 1294 01:36:44,244 --> 01:36:48,332 No, not at all. I'd like the nurse to be here too. 1295 01:36:49,124 --> 01:36:51,251 Good night, Mr. Kane. 1296 01:37:26,787 --> 01:37:28,413 Charlie. 1297 01:37:31,124 --> 01:37:34,294 I couldn't make you see how I felt, Charlie. 1298 01:37:35,754 --> 01:37:38,507 But I couldn't go through with the singing again. 1299 01:37:40,425 --> 01:37:43,637 You don't know what it means to know that people are... 1300 01:37:45,138 --> 01:37:47,974 That the whole audience doesn't want you. 1301 01:37:51,561 --> 01:37:53,647 That's when you got to fight them. 1302 01:38:02,072 --> 01:38:03,657 All right. 1303 01:38:05,575 --> 01:38:07,994 You won't have to fight them anymore. 1304 01:38:11,289 --> 01:38:12,833 It's their loss. 1305 01:38:29,057 --> 01:38:30,851 What are you doing? 1306 01:38:35,272 --> 01:38:37,274 Jigsaw puzzles? 1307 01:38:42,404 --> 01:38:44,489 Charlie, what time is it? 1308 01:38:44,990 --> 01:38:48,076 - 30. - In New York? 1309 01:38:49,578 --> 01:38:53,832 - Hmm? - I said what time is it in New York? 1310 01:38:54,666 --> 01:38:57,794 - 30. - Night? 1311 01:38:58,962 --> 01:39:00,422 Mm-hm. 1312 01:39:01,381 --> 01:39:03,175 The Bulldog's just gone to press. 1313 01:39:03,341 --> 01:39:06,511 Well, hurray for the Bulldog. 1314 01:39:08,722 --> 01:39:12,100 Gee, 11:30. Shows are just getting out. 1315 01:39:12,267 --> 01:39:15,020 People are going to nightclubs and restaurants. 1316 01:39:15,687 --> 01:39:19,024 Of course, we're different because we live in a palace. 1317 01:39:19,191 --> 01:39:21,735 You always said you wanted to live in a palace. 1318 01:39:21,902 --> 01:39:24,237 A person could go crazy in this dump. 1319 01:39:24,404 --> 01:39:27,449 Nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with. 1320 01:39:27,616 --> 01:39:28,783 Susan. 1321 01:39:28,950 --> 01:39:32,871 49,000 acres of nothing but scenery and statues. 1322 01:39:33,079 --> 01:39:34,498 I'm lonesome. 1323 01:39:34,664 --> 01:39:38,502 Until yesterday, we've had no less than 50 of your friends at any one time. 1324 01:39:38,668 --> 01:39:41,296 I think if you look in the west wing 1325 01:39:41,463 --> 01:39:44,466 you'll find about a dozen vacationists still in residence. 1326 01:39:44,633 --> 01:39:47,219 You make a joke out of everything. 1327 01:39:47,719 --> 01:39:52,265 Charlie, I want to go to New York. I'm tired of being a hostess. 1328 01:39:52,432 --> 01:39:56,269 I want to have fun. Please, Charlie. 1329 01:39:57,979 --> 01:40:00,815 Charlie, please. 1330 01:40:01,775 --> 01:40:04,653 Our home is here, Susan. 1331 01:40:10,158 --> 01:40:12,410 I don't care to visit New York. 1332 01:40:49,322 --> 01:40:51,116 What are you doing? 1333 01:40:53,201 --> 01:40:57,330 Oh. One thing I can never understand: 1334 01:40:57,497 --> 01:40:59,597 How do you know you haven't done it before? 1335 01:40:59,749 --> 01:41:03,336 It makes a whole lot more sense than collecting statues. 1336 01:41:05,338 --> 01:41:06,923 You may be right. 1337 01:41:07,340 --> 01:41:09,426 I sometimes wonder, 1338 01:41:09,801 --> 01:41:12,178 but you get into the habit. 1339 01:41:12,345 --> 01:41:15,181 It's not a habit, I do it because I like it. 1340 01:41:15,682 --> 01:41:17,391 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1341 01:41:17,475 --> 01:41:18,518 Huh? 1342 01:41:18,685 --> 01:41:20,478 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1343 01:41:20,562 --> 01:41:23,607 Invite everybody to spend the night at the Everglades. 1344 01:41:23,857 --> 01:41:28,194 Invite everybody. Order everybody, you mean, and make them sleep in tents. 1345 01:41:28,361 --> 01:41:31,322 Who wants to sleep in tents when they've got their own room 1346 01:41:31,406 --> 01:41:33,956 with a bath, where they know where everything is? 1347 01:41:34,117 --> 01:41:37,495 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1348 01:41:40,832 --> 01:41:45,170 You never give me anything I really care about. 1349 01:41:53,386 --> 01:41:57,891 It can't be love 1350 01:41:58,058 --> 01:42:02,646 For there is no true love 1351 01:42:02,812 --> 01:42:05,523 I know I've played at the game 1352 01:42:05,690 --> 01:42:08,151 Like a moth in a blue flame 1353 01:42:08,318 --> 01:42:12,238 Lost in the end Just the same 1354 01:42:12,405 --> 01:42:15,075 All these years 1355 01:42:15,241 --> 01:42:20,080 My heart's been floating around In a puddle of tears 1356 01:42:20,246 --> 01:42:24,250 Mm I wonder what it is 1357 01:42:24,584 --> 01:42:28,588 Sure, you give me things, but that don't mean anything to you. 1358 01:42:31,007 --> 01:42:34,052 You're in a tent, darling, you aren't at home. 1359 01:42:34,219 --> 01:42:37,472 I can hear you very well if you speak in a normal tone of voice. 1360 01:42:37,639 --> 01:42:41,559 What's the difference between giving me a bracelet or giving someone $100,000, 1361 01:42:41,643 --> 01:42:44,604 for a statue you'll keep crated up and never look at? 1362 01:42:44,771 --> 01:42:47,065 It's just money. It doesn't mean anything. 1363 01:42:47,232 --> 01:42:50,360 You never really gave me anything that you care about. 1364 01:42:50,527 --> 01:42:53,154 - I want you to stop this. - I'm not going to stop it. 1365 01:42:53,238 --> 01:42:56,116 - Right now. - You never gave me anything in your life. 1366 01:42:56,282 --> 01:42:58,701 You just tried to buy me into giving you something. 1367 01:42:58,785 --> 01:43:00,328 Susan! 1368 01:43:02,539 --> 01:43:07,460 - It can't be love - It can't be love 1369 01:43:07,627 --> 01:43:10,463 For there is no true love 1370 01:43:19,055 --> 01:43:21,599 Whatever I do, I do because I love you. 1371 01:43:21,766 --> 01:43:23,643 You don't love me. 1372 01:43:23,810 --> 01:43:25,687 You want me to love you. 1373 01:43:25,854 --> 01:43:28,690 Sure. "I'm Charles Foster Kane. 1374 01:43:28,857 --> 01:43:31,401 Whatever you want, just name it and it's yours. 1375 01:43:31,568 --> 01:43:33,778 But you gotta love me." 1376 01:43:38,241 --> 01:43:40,994 Don't tell me you're sorry. 1377 01:43:42,912 --> 01:43:44,664 I'm not sorry. 1378 01:43:56,509 --> 01:43:58,094 Mr. Kane? 1379 01:43:58,511 --> 01:44:01,264 Mrs. Kane would like to see you, sir. 1380 01:44:04,142 --> 01:44:07,312 Marie has been packing her since morning. 1381 01:44:13,401 --> 01:44:17,113 Tell Arnold I'm ready, Marie. Tell him he can get the bags. 1382 01:44:17,655 --> 01:44:18,907 Yes, madame. 1383 01:44:20,909 --> 01:44:23,203 Have you gone completely crazy? 1384 01:44:23,369 --> 01:44:26,622 Don't you know that our guests, that everyone will know about this? 1385 01:44:26,706 --> 01:44:28,506 Packed your bag, sent for the car... 1386 01:44:28,666 --> 01:44:31,878 And left you? Of course they'll hear. 1387 01:44:32,879 --> 01:44:35,548 I'm not saying goodbye, except to you. 1388 01:44:35,757 --> 01:44:38,593 But I never imagined people wouldn't know. 1389 01:44:41,054 --> 01:44:42,931 I won't let you go. 1390 01:44:50,271 --> 01:44:51,898 Goodbye, Charlie. 1391 01:44:55,485 --> 01:44:56,903 Susan. 1392 01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:08,706 Please don't go. 1393 01:45:14,337 --> 01:45:16,130 Please, Susan. 1394 01:45:19,342 --> 01:45:22,762 From now on, everything will be exactly the way you want it to be. 1395 01:45:22,929 --> 01:45:25,014 Not the way I think you want it, 1396 01:45:26,683 --> 01:45:28,184 but your way. 1397 01:45:30,436 --> 01:45:31,646 Hmm? 1398 01:45:34,691 --> 01:45:36,025 You mustn't go. 1399 01:45:39,279 --> 01:45:41,447 You can't do this to me. 1400 01:45:43,116 --> 01:45:44,784 I see. 1401 01:45:45,702 --> 01:45:48,288 It's you that this is being done to. 1402 01:45:48,580 --> 01:45:50,373 It's not me at all. 1403 01:45:50,623 --> 01:45:52,542 Not what it means to me. 1404 01:45:54,711 --> 01:45:56,880 I can't do this to you? 1405 01:45:58,339 --> 01:46:00,300 Oh, yes, I can. 1406 01:46:19,444 --> 01:46:22,571 In case you haven't heard, I lost all my money and it was plenty. 1407 01:46:22,655 --> 01:46:24,955 The last 10 years have been difficult for many. 1408 01:46:25,074 --> 01:46:27,994 They haven't been tough on me. I just lost all my money. 1409 01:46:28,620 --> 01:46:31,789 - You're going down to Xanadu? - Monday, with boys from the office. 1410 01:46:31,873 --> 01:46:34,542 Mr. Rawlston wants the whole place photographed. 1411 01:46:34,709 --> 01:46:36,210 We run a picture magazine. 1412 01:46:36,377 --> 01:46:40,006 If you're smart, you'll get in touch with Raymond. He's the butler. 1413 01:46:40,173 --> 01:46:42,091 You'll learn a lot from him. 1414 01:46:42,258 --> 01:46:44,719 He knows where all the bodies are buried. 1415 01:46:44,886 --> 01:46:48,097 You know, all the same, I feel kind of sorry for Mr. Kane. 1416 01:46:50,350 --> 01:46:52,018 Don't you think I do? 1417 01:46:56,606 --> 01:46:59,567 What do you know, it's morning already. 1418 01:47:03,029 --> 01:47:06,658 Come around and tell me the story of your life sometime. 1419 01:47:13,665 --> 01:47:15,249 Rosebud? 1420 01:47:17,877 --> 01:47:19,963 I'll tell you about Rosebud. 1421 01:47:20,463 --> 01:47:22,382 How much is it worth to you? 1422 01:47:22,966 --> 01:47:24,759 A thousand dollars? 1423 01:47:30,848 --> 01:47:32,266 Okay. 1424 01:47:34,060 --> 01:47:36,521 Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Thompson. 1425 01:47:37,480 --> 01:47:40,900 - He acted funny sometimes, you know? - No, I didn't. 1426 01:47:41,150 --> 01:47:43,569 Yes, he did crazy things sometimes. 1427 01:47:43,903 --> 01:47:46,239 I've been working for him 11 years now 1428 01:47:46,406 --> 01:47:50,243 in charge of the whole place, so I ought to know. 1429 01:47:50,576 --> 01:47:51,786 - Rosebud. - Yes. 1430 01:47:51,953 --> 01:47:56,874 Like I tell you, the old man acted kind of funny sometimes, 1431 01:47:57,041 --> 01:48:00,670 - but I knew how to handle him... - Need a lot of service? 1432 01:48:00,837 --> 01:48:03,798 Yeah. But I knew how to handle him. 1433 01:48:03,965 --> 01:48:05,508 Like that time his wife left. 1434 01:50:21,394 --> 01:50:22,645 Rosebud. 1435 01:51:30,713 --> 01:51:32,256 I see. 1436 01:51:32,924 --> 01:51:36,302 - And that's what you know about Rosebud? - Yeah. 1437 01:51:36,928 --> 01:51:39,305 I heard him say it that other time too. 1438 01:51:39,972 --> 01:51:41,891 He just said: 1439 01:51:42,266 --> 01:51:44,018 "Rosebud." 1440 01:51:44,185 --> 01:51:47,480 Then he dropped the glass ball and it broke on the floor. 1441 01:51:48,147 --> 01:51:52,360 He didn't say anything after that, and I knew he was dead. 1442 01:51:53,110 --> 01:51:55,780 He said all kinds of things that didn't mean anything. 1443 01:51:55,947 --> 01:51:58,824 - Sentimental fellow, aren't you? - Hmm... 1444 01:51:58,991 --> 01:52:01,619 - Yes and no. - That isn't worth $1000. 1445 01:52:01,786 --> 01:52:04,747 You can keep on asking questions if you want to. 1446 01:52:04,997 --> 01:52:06,666 We're leaving tonight 1447 01:52:07,458 --> 01:52:09,358 when we're through taking pictures. 1448 01:52:09,502 --> 01:52:11,379 Allow yourself plenty of time. 1449 01:52:11,545 --> 01:52:15,383 The train stops at the junction on signal, but they don't like to wait. 1450 01:52:16,425 --> 01:52:19,387 I can remember when they'd wait all day 1451 01:52:19,720 --> 01:52:21,013 if Mr. Kane said so. 1452 01:52:22,848 --> 01:52:25,434 Better get going. 1453 01:52:26,811 --> 01:52:28,229 Take a picture of that. 1454 01:52:28,437 --> 01:52:32,358 - Can we come down? - Yes, hurry up. We're leaving. 1455 01:52:34,568 --> 01:52:38,030 How much do you think all this is worth, Mr. Thompson? 1456 01:52:38,239 --> 01:52:39,782 Millions. 1457 01:52:41,242 --> 01:52:42,368 If anybody wants it. 1458 01:52:42,535 --> 01:52:45,162 Well, at least he brought all this stuff to America. 1459 01:52:45,329 --> 01:52:46,998 - What's that? - Another Venus. 1460 01:52:47,164 --> 01:52:48,374 25,000 bucks. 1461 01:52:48,541 --> 01:52:51,043 A lot of money to pay for a dame without a head. 1462 01:52:51,210 --> 01:52:54,130 - The banks are out of luck? - Oh, I don't know. 1463 01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:57,633 - They'll clear all right. - He never threw anything away. 1464 01:52:57,717 --> 01:53:02,847 "Welcome home, Mr. Kane, from 467 employees of the New York Inquirer." 1465 01:53:03,014 --> 01:53:08,269 "One stove from the estate of Mary Kane, Little Salem, Colorado. $2." 1466 01:53:08,436 --> 01:53:10,938 We're supposed to get everything, junk as well as art. 1467 01:53:11,022 --> 01:53:12,622 He sure liked to collect things. 1468 01:53:12,773 --> 01:53:14,108 Anything and everything. 1469 01:53:14,275 --> 01:53:15,901 A regular crow, eh? 1470 01:53:16,068 --> 01:53:18,718 - Hey, look, a jigsaw puzzle. - We got a lot of those. 1471 01:53:18,863 --> 01:53:21,866 A Burmese temple and three Spanish ceilings down the hall. 1472 01:53:22,366 --> 01:53:23,743 Part of a Scotch castle 1473 01:53:23,909 --> 01:53:25,745 that needs to be unwrapped. 1474 01:53:26,078 --> 01:53:27,496 Put all this stuff together: 1475 01:53:27,663 --> 01:53:30,708 The palaces and the paintings, and the toys and everything. 1476 01:53:30,875 --> 01:53:32,835 What would it spell? 1477 01:53:34,253 --> 01:53:37,048 - Charles Foster Kane? - Or Rosebud. 1478 01:53:37,298 --> 01:53:40,176 - How about it, Jerry? - What's Rosebud? 1479 01:53:40,343 --> 01:53:42,887 That's what he said when he died. 1480 01:53:43,554 --> 01:53:45,639 Did you ever find out what it means? 1481 01:53:45,806 --> 01:53:48,016 - No, I didn't. - What did you find out about him? 1482 01:53:48,100 --> 01:53:49,602 Not much, really. 1483 01:53:52,688 --> 01:53:54,398 We'd better get started. 1484 01:53:56,317 --> 01:53:58,736 What have you been doing all this time? 1485 01:53:59,779 --> 01:54:01,322 Playing with a jigsaw puzzle. 1486 01:54:01,489 --> 01:54:05,242 If you'd discovered what Rosebud meant, I bet it would've explained everything. 1487 01:54:05,326 --> 01:54:06,869 No, I don't think so. 1488 01:54:07,495 --> 01:54:08,871 No. 1489 01:54:09,038 --> 01:54:12,583 He was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. 1490 01:54:12,750 --> 01:54:16,337 Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost. 1491 01:54:16,504 --> 01:54:18,798 It wouldn't have explained anything. 1492 01:54:19,632 --> 01:54:22,760 I don't think any word can explain a man's life. 1493 01:54:23,719 --> 01:54:27,932 No. I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. 1494 01:54:29,100 --> 01:54:30,810 A missing piece. 1495 01:54:34,146 --> 01:54:35,773 Well 1496 01:54:36,649 --> 01:54:38,818 come on, everybody 1497 01:54:40,653 --> 01:54:42,905 we'll miss the train. 1498 01:55:47,595 --> 01:55:49,847 Throw that junk in. 1499 01:57:22,856 --> 01:57:27,611 Maybe I was what you nowadays call a stooge. Huh? 1500 01:57:27,778 --> 01:57:30,072 Everything was his idea 1501 01:57:31,865 --> 01:57:33,701 except my leaving him. 1502 01:57:34,577 --> 01:57:36,870 I've got his trunk all packed. 1503 01:57:37,871 --> 01:57:40,249 I've had it packed for a week now. 1504 01:57:40,416 --> 01:57:44,086 Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood. 1505 01:57:46,005 --> 01:57:48,507 You're gonna need more than one lesson. 1506 01:57:49,383 --> 01:57:51,927 And you'll get more than one lesson. 1507 01:57:56,682 --> 01:57:58,892 Who's a busy man, me? 1508 01:57:59,059 --> 01:58:02,062 I'm chairman of the board. I got nothing but time. 1509 01:58:02,229 --> 01:58:03,856 What do you want to know? 1510 01:58:04,023 --> 01:58:08,861 We thought, if we could find out what he meant by his last words as he was dying... 1511 01:58:09,194 --> 01:58:12,031 - Sentimental fellow, aren't you? - Hmm... 1512 01:58:12,656 --> 01:58:13,824 Yes and no. 1513 01:58:13,991 --> 01:58:16,910 "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." 1514 01:58:17,161 --> 01:58:21,081 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.