1 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:33,903 Rosebud. 2 00:03:12,276 --> 00:03:14,277 ANNOUNCER: News on the March. 3 00:03:33,797 --> 00:03:35,798 NARRATOR: Legendary was the Xanadu... 4 00:03:35,966 --> 00:03:39,468 ...where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome. 5 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:43,097 Today, almost as legendary, is Florida's Xanadu... 6 00:03:43,265 --> 00:03:46,225 ...the world's largest private pleasure ground. 7 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,689 Here on the deserts of the Gulf Coast, a private mountain... 8 00:03:51,857 --> 00:03:53,900 ...was commissioned and successfully built. 9 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:57,236 One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble... 10 00:03:57,404 --> 00:03:59,989 ...are the ingredients of Xanadu's mountain. 11 00:04:01,033 --> 00:04:03,409 Contents of Xanadu's palace: 12 00:04:03,577 --> 00:04:07,705 Paintings, pictures, statues, various stones of other palaces. 13 00:04:08,123 --> 00:04:09,916 A collection of everything. 14 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:13,252 So big it can never be cataloged or appraised. 15 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:17,256 Enough for 10 museums, the loot of the world. 16 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:22,803 Xanadu's livestock... 17 00:04:23,847 --> 00:04:29,352 ...the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and jungle... 18 00:04:29,686 --> 00:04:33,940 ...two of each, the biggest private zoo since Noah. 19 00:04:34,858 --> 00:04:36,692 Like the pharaohs... 20 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:40,821 ...Xanadu's landlord leaves many stones to mark his grave. 21 00:04:42,032 --> 00:04:43,866 Since the pyramids... 22 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:46,744 ...Xanadu is the costliest monument... 23 00:04:46,912 --> 00:04:49,330 ...a man has built to himself. 24 00:05:02,386 --> 00:05:05,012 Here in Xanadu last week... 25 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:08,265 ...Xanadu's landlord was laid to rest. 26 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,310 A potent figure of our century... 27 00:05:11,478 --> 00:05:13,604 ...America's Kubla Khan: 28 00:05:14,064 --> 00:05:15,898 Charles Foster Kane. 29 00:05:43,135 --> 00:05:48,389 Its humble beginnings, in this ramshackle building, a dying daily. 30 00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:50,975 Kane's empire, in its glory... 31 00:05:51,143 --> 00:05:55,271 ...held dominion over 37 newspapers, two syndicates... 32 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,026 ...a radio network, an empire upon an empire. 33 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:03,946 The first of grocery stores, paper mills... 34 00:06:04,114 --> 00:06:09,702 ...apartment buildings, factories, forests, ocean liners. 35 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:13,122 An empire through which for 50 years... 36 00:06:13,290 --> 00:06:15,708 ...flowed in an unending stream... 37 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:19,211 ...the wealth of the Earth's third richest gold mine. 38 00:06:20,130 --> 00:06:23,716 Famed in American legend is the origin of the Kane fortune. 39 00:06:23,884 --> 00:06:29,388 How, to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane, by a defaulting boarder, in 1868... 40 00:06:29,556 --> 00:06:33,309 ...was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mineshaft: 41 00:06:33,477 --> 00:06:36,520 The Colorado Lode. 42 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:40,775 Fifty-seven years later, before a congressional investigation... 43 00:06:40,942 --> 00:06:44,320 ...Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of Wall Street... 44 00:06:44,488 --> 00:06:48,115 ...for years chief target of Kane papers' attacks on trusts... 45 00:06:48,283 --> 00:06:50,576 ...recalls a journey he made as a youth. 46 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:54,080 My firm had been appointed trustee by Mrs. Kane... 47 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:56,499 ...for a large fortune she recently acquired. 48 00:06:56,666 --> 00:07:00,920 It was her wish that I take charge of this boy, Charles Foster Kane. 49 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:05,508 MAN: Chief, is it not, that on this occasion, Charles Foster Kane... 50 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:09,637 ...personally attacked you after striking you in the stomach with a sled? 51 00:07:09,805 --> 00:07:10,846 [GROUP LAUGHING] 52 00:07:11,014 --> 00:07:13,849 I shall read to the committee a prepared statement... 53 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:19,480 ...which I have brought with me, and then refuse to answer questions. 54 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:23,234 Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs... 55 00:07:23,401 --> 00:07:26,320 ...and by the dangerous manner he has persistently attacked... 56 00:07:26,488 --> 00:07:28,656 ...American traditions of private property... 57 00:07:28,824 --> 00:07:31,075 ...initiative and opportunity for advancement... 58 00:07:31,243 --> 00:07:35,079 ...is, in fact, nothing more or less than a communist. 59 00:07:35,247 --> 00:07:37,665 NARRATOR: That same month in Union Square... 60 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:40,376 MAN [OVER SPEAKERS]: The words "Charles Foster Kane"... 61 00:07:40,544 --> 00:07:44,046 ...are a menace to every workingman in this land. 62 00:07:44,381 --> 00:07:49,718 He is today what he has always been and always will be: A fascist. 63 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,595 NARRATOR: And still another opinion... 64 00:07:51,763 --> 00:07:52,805 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 65 00:08:09,072 --> 00:08:12,575 Kane urged his country's entry into one war... 66 00:08:12,784 --> 00:08:15,411 ...opposed participation in another. 67 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:19,456 Swung the election to one American president at least. 68 00:08:19,666 --> 00:08:22,918 Spoke for millions of Americans. 69 00:08:23,253 --> 00:08:25,880 Was hated by as many more. 70 00:08:26,214 --> 00:08:29,758 For 40 years appeared in Kane newsprint... 71 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:34,346 ...no public issue on which Kane papers took no stand. 72 00:08:34,764 --> 00:08:40,060 No public man whom Kane himself did not support or denounce. 73 00:08:40,228 --> 00:08:44,231 Often support, then denounce. 74 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:55,951 Twice married, twice divorced. 75 00:08:56,286 --> 00:08:58,495 First to a president's niece... 76 00:08:58,663 --> 00:09:01,749 ...Emily Norton, who left him in 1916. 77 00:09:02,292 --> 00:09:05,878 Died 1918 in a motor accident with their son. 78 00:09:08,089 --> 00:09:10,633 Sixteen years after his first marriage... 79 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,093 ...two weeks after his first divorce... 80 00:09:13,303 --> 00:09:15,387 ...Kane married Susan Alexander... 81 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:18,807 ...singer, at the Town Hall in Trenton, New Jersey. 82 00:09:19,601 --> 00:09:25,064 For wife two, one-time opera-singing Susan Alexander... 83 00:09:25,232 --> 00:09:28,317 ...Kane built Chicago's Municipal Opera House. 84 00:09:28,485 --> 00:09:30,945 Cost: $3 million. 85 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:36,992 Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane, half-finished before she divorced him... 86 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,161 ...the still unfinished... 87 00:09:39,329 --> 00:09:40,663 ...Xanadu. 88 00:09:40,830 --> 00:09:43,999 Cost: No man can say. 89 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:50,673 Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was... 90 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,467 ...in all his life was never granted elective office... 91 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:55,219 ...by the voters of his country. 92 00:09:55,387 --> 00:09:58,097 But Kane papers were once strong indeed... 93 00:09:58,265 --> 00:10:00,766 ...and once the prize seemed almost his. 94 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:04,436 In 1916, as independent candidate for governor... 95 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:06,939 ...the best elements of the state behind him... 96 00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:11,860 ...the White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career... 97 00:10:12,028 --> 00:10:15,864 ...then suddenly, less than one week before election... 98 00:10:16,449 --> 00:10:20,703 ...defeat. Shameful, ignominious. 99 00:10:20,870 --> 00:10:24,456 Defeat that set back for 20 years the cause of reform in the U. S... 100 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:28,252 ...forever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane. 101 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:34,842 Then, in the first year of the Great Depression... 102 00:10:35,010 --> 00:10:37,344 ...a Kane paper closes. 103 00:10:37,512 --> 00:10:41,015 For Kane, in four short years, collapse. 104 00:10:41,391 --> 00:10:46,603 Eleven Kane papers merged, more sold, scrapped. 105 00:10:52,319 --> 00:10:54,320 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 106 00:10:56,239 --> 00:10:57,281 REPORTER: Is that correct? 107 00:10:57,449 --> 00:10:59,700 Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. 108 00:10:59,868 --> 00:11:03,704 - Read the Inquirer. - How were business conditions in Europe? 109 00:11:03,872 --> 00:11:07,750 How did I find business conditions in Europe, Mr. Bones? 110 00:11:07,917 --> 00:11:09,251 With great difficulty. 111 00:11:09,419 --> 00:11:11,962 [LAUGHING WITH CROWD] 112 00:11:12,130 --> 00:11:13,756 Are you glad to be back? 113 00:11:13,923 --> 00:11:16,425 I'm always glad to be back. I'm an American. 114 00:11:17,302 --> 00:11:19,762 Always been an American. Anything else? 115 00:11:19,929 --> 00:11:22,931 When I was a reporter, we asked them quicker than that. 116 00:11:23,099 --> 00:11:25,559 What do you think of the chances for war in Europe? 117 00:11:25,727 --> 00:11:29,980 I talked with the responsible leaders of England, France, Germany and Italy. 118 00:11:30,148 --> 00:11:32,524 They're too intelligent to embark on a project... 119 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:35,152 ...which would mean the end of civilization. 120 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,822 You can take my word for it, there will be no war. 121 00:11:43,244 --> 00:11:45,829 NARRATOR: Kane helped to change the world... 122 00:11:45,997 --> 00:11:48,624 ...but Kane's world now is history... 123 00:11:48,792 --> 00:11:52,127 ...and the great yellow journalist himself lived to be history... 124 00:11:52,295 --> 00:11:54,588 ...outlived his power to make it. 125 00:11:55,465 --> 00:11:59,468 Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace... 126 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:03,138 ...aloof, seldom visited, never photographed... 127 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:07,935 ...an emperor of newsprint continued to direct his failing empire. 128 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:10,813 Vainly attempted to sway, as he once did... 129 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:14,525 ...the destinies of a nation that had ceased to listen to him... 130 00:12:14,692 --> 00:12:16,443 ...ceased to trust him. 131 00:12:18,655 --> 00:12:23,283 Then last week, as it must to all men... 132 00:12:23,451 --> 00:12:26,036 ...death came to Charles Foster Kane. 133 00:12:26,996 --> 00:12:29,498 ANNOUNCER: News on the March. 134 00:12:33,837 --> 00:12:35,796 MAN 1: That's it. MAN 2: Hello. Hello. 135 00:12:35,964 --> 00:12:38,841 MAN 3: Stand by. I'll tell you if we want to run it again. 136 00:12:39,008 --> 00:12:41,552 MAN 4: How about it, Mr. Rawlston? RAWLSTON: How do you like it? 137 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:43,345 MAN 5: Seventy years in a man's life. 138 00:12:43,513 --> 00:12:45,556 RAWLSTON: That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel. 139 00:12:45,723 --> 00:12:48,058 It's a good short, but what it needs is an angle. 140 00:12:48,226 --> 00:12:51,437 All we saw on that screen was that Charles Foster Kane is dead. 141 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:53,605 I know that. I read the papers. 142 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:56,400 It isn't enough to tell us what a man did... 143 00:12:56,568 --> 00:12:59,653 ...you've got to tell us who he was. 144 00:12:59,821 --> 00:13:03,031 Wait a minute. What were Kane's last words? 145 00:13:03,199 --> 00:13:05,033 Do you remember, boys? 146 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:07,536 What were the last words he said on Earth? 147 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:09,830 Maybe he told us about himself on his deathbed. 148 00:13:09,998 --> 00:13:12,916 - Maybe he didn't. - All we saw was a big American. 149 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:15,836 How did he differ from Ford, Hearst or John Doe? 150 00:13:16,004 --> 00:13:18,672 MAN 6: Yeah, sure. - I tell you, a man's dying words... 151 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,799 MAN 6: What were they? - You don't read the papers. 152 00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:23,385 When Charles Foster Kane died, he said one word: 153 00:13:23,553 --> 00:13:26,263 THOMPSON: "Rosebud." MAN 6: That's all he said? Tough guy. 154 00:13:26,431 --> 00:13:28,724 Yes, "Rosebud." Just that one word. 155 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:30,684 - But who is she? MAN 7: What was it? 156 00:13:30,852 --> 00:13:32,895 Here's a man who could've been president... 157 00:13:33,062 --> 00:13:35,272 ...who was as loved, hated and talked about... 158 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,900 ...as any man in our time, but when he dies... 159 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:40,235 ...something is on his mind called Rosebud. 160 00:13:40,403 --> 00:13:42,779 - What does that mean? MAN 8: A racehorse he bet on once. 161 00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:45,240 MAN 6: That didn't come in. - But what was the race? 162 00:13:45,408 --> 00:13:46,450 Rosebud. 163 00:13:46,618 --> 00:13:47,701 - Thompson. - Yes. 164 00:13:47,869 --> 00:13:51,246 - Hold this up a week, two if you must. - Don't you think right after he's dead... 165 00:13:51,414 --> 00:13:56,084 Find out about Rosebud. Get in touch with anybody who knew him or knew him well. 166 00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:57,961 That manager of his... Uh... 167 00:13:58,129 --> 00:14:00,547 Bernstein. His second wife. She's still living. 168 00:14:00,715 --> 00:14:01,882 Susan Alexander Kane. 169 00:14:02,050 --> 00:14:04,801 - She runs a nightclub in Atlantic City. MAN 8: That's right. 170 00:14:04,969 --> 00:14:08,305 See them all. Get in touch with everybody that ever worked for him... 171 00:14:08,473 --> 00:14:11,600 ...whoever loved him, whoever hated his guts. 172 00:14:11,768 --> 00:14:14,436 I don't mean go through the city directory of course. 173 00:14:14,604 --> 00:14:16,104 I'll get on it right away. 174 00:14:16,272 --> 00:14:19,691 Good. Rosebud, dead or alive. 175 00:14:20,109 --> 00:14:22,444 It will probably turn out to be a very simple thing. 176 00:14:22,946 --> 00:14:24,947 [THUNDER CRASHING] 177 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,314 [COUGHING] 178 00:15:01,985 --> 00:15:03,527 Miss Alexander. 179 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:06,989 This is Mr. Thompson, Miss Alexander. 180 00:15:07,156 --> 00:15:09,449 I want another drink, John. 181 00:15:12,370 --> 00:15:15,247 Right away. Will you have something, Mr. Thompson? 182 00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:18,917 - I'll have a highball, please. - Who told you you could sit down? 183 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:22,671 I thought maybe we could have a talk. 184 00:15:22,839 --> 00:15:24,256 Think again. 185 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:27,634 Can't you people leave me alone? 186 00:15:27,802 --> 00:15:29,928 I'm minding my own business, you mind yours. 187 00:15:30,096 --> 00:15:32,806 If I could just have a talk with you, Miss Alexander. I'd... 188 00:15:32,974 --> 00:15:34,683 Get out of here. 189 00:15:36,561 --> 00:15:37,811 Get out! 190 00:15:39,022 --> 00:15:40,689 - Sorry. - Get out. 191 00:15:40,982 --> 00:15:43,442 - Maybe some other time. - Get out. 192 00:15:44,402 --> 00:15:45,986 [THUNDER CRASHING] 193 00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:55,579 Gino. 194 00:15:57,498 --> 00:15:59,207 Get her another highball. 195 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:02,002 She just won't talk to nobody, Mr. Thompson. 196 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:03,420 THOMPSON: Okay. 197 00:16:05,548 --> 00:16:08,884 - Another double? - Yeah. 198 00:16:09,052 --> 00:16:10,886 Hello, I want New York City. 199 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:16,642 Courtland 79970. This is Atlantic City 46827. All right. 200 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:18,310 Hey. 201 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:20,562 - She's, uh... - Yeah. 202 00:16:20,730 --> 00:16:22,356 She'll snap out of it. 203 00:16:22,523 --> 00:16:25,734 Why, until he died, she'd just as soon talk about Mr. Kane as any... 204 00:16:25,902 --> 00:16:27,235 - Hello. - Sooner. 205 00:16:27,403 --> 00:16:30,030 This is Thompson. Let me talk to the chief. 206 00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:33,825 Mr. Rawlston? She won't talk. 207 00:16:34,077 --> 00:16:36,870 The second Mrs. Kane. About Rosebud or anything else. 208 00:16:37,038 --> 00:16:38,705 I'm calling from Atlantic City. 209 00:16:38,873 --> 00:16:42,417 Tomorrow I'll go to Philadelphia, to Thatcher Library, to see his diary. 210 00:16:42,585 --> 00:16:43,835 They're expecting me. 211 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:47,464 Then I've a meeting with his general manager in New York. Bernstein. 212 00:16:47,632 --> 00:16:49,007 Then I'm coming back here. 213 00:16:49,175 --> 00:16:52,803 Yeah, I'll see everybody that's still alive. Goodbye. 214 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:55,013 - Hey... Um... - John. 215 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:56,932 You just might be able to help me. 216 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,103 When she used to talk about Mr. Kane, did she ever mention Rosebud? 217 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:02,771 "Rosebud"? 218 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:05,524 Thank you, Mr. Thompson, thanks. 219 00:17:05,692 --> 00:17:10,445 As a matter of fact, just the other day, when the papers were full of it... 220 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:13,156 ...I asked her. 221 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:15,826 She never heard of Rosebud. 222 00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:31,967 WOMAN: The directors of the Thatcher Memorial Library have asked me... 223 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:35,345 ...to remind you about the conditions under which you may... 224 00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:38,598 ...inspect certain portions of Mr. Thatcher's unpublished memoirs. 225 00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:41,309 - I remember them. - Yes, Jennings, I'll bring him in. 226 00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:43,937 - All I want is an hour... - Under no circumstances... 227 00:17:44,105 --> 00:17:47,774 ...are direct quotes from his manuscript to be used by you. You may follow me. 228 00:17:47,942 --> 00:17:50,110 That's all right. I'm just looking for... 229 00:18:02,832 --> 00:18:04,499 Jennings. 230 00:18:09,505 --> 00:18:10,505 Thank you, Jennings. 231 00:18:10,673 --> 00:18:11,715 [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] 232 00:18:11,883 --> 00:18:15,051 You will be required to leave this room at 4:30 promptly. 233 00:18:15,219 --> 00:18:17,679 You will confine yourself, it is our understanding... 234 00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:21,224 ...to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript regarding Mr. Kane. 235 00:18:21,392 --> 00:18:23,268 That's all I'm interested in. 236 00:18:24,187 --> 00:18:25,562 Thank you. 237 00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:30,692 Pages 83 to 142. 238 00:19:08,231 --> 00:19:10,023 Come on, boys. 239 00:19:10,191 --> 00:19:12,442 - Be careful, Charles. THATCHER: Mrs. Kane. 240 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:14,736 Pull your muffler around your neck, Charles. 241 00:19:14,904 --> 00:19:17,072 Mrs. Kane, I think we'll have to tell him now. 242 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,201 Yes, I'll sign those papers now, Mr. Thatcher. 243 00:19:21,369 --> 00:19:24,079 You people seem to forget that I'm the boy's father. 244 00:19:24,247 --> 00:19:27,082 It's going to be done exactly the way I've told Mr. Thatcher. 245 00:19:27,250 --> 00:19:30,919 There's nothing wrong with Colorado. I don't see why we can't raise our son... 246 00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:32,754 ...just because we came into money. 247 00:19:32,922 --> 00:19:35,799 If I want to, I can go to court. A father has a right to. 248 00:19:35,967 --> 00:19:39,177 A boarder that beats his bill and leaves worthless stock behind... 249 00:19:39,345 --> 00:19:42,180 That property is as much my property as anybody's... 250 00:19:42,348 --> 00:19:45,183 ...now that it's valuable. And if Fred Graves had any idea... 251 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:48,854 ...this would happen, he'd have made out the certificates in both our names. 252 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:52,399 - But they're made out to Mrs. Kane. - He owed the money to both of us. 253 00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:57,279 - "The bank's decision in all matters..." - I don't hold with giving Charles to a bank... 254 00:19:57,446 --> 00:19:59,614 - Stop this nonsense. - We're a bit uneducated... 255 00:19:59,782 --> 00:20:02,033 "The bank's decision concerning his education... 256 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:04,411 ...his places of residence, is to be final." 257 00:20:04,579 --> 00:20:08,039 - The idea of a bank being the guardian... - Stop this nonsense, Jim. 258 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:11,001 "We will assume full management of the Colorado Lode"... 259 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:13,753 ...which I repeat, Mrs. Kane, you are the sole owner. 260 00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:15,964 - Where do I sign, Mr. Thatcher? - Right here. 261 00:20:16,132 --> 00:20:19,175 Mary, I'm asking you for the last time. 262 00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:21,761 You'd think I hadn't been a good husband or father... 263 00:20:21,929 --> 00:20:23,388 The sum of $50,000 a year... 264 00:20:23,556 --> 00:20:26,641 ...is to be paid to you and Mr. Kane as long as you both live... 265 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:28,935 ...and thereafter to the survivor. 266 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,689 - Let's hope it's all for the best. - It is. 267 00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:35,066 KANE: The union forever! 268 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,402 [KANE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 269 00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:40,697 JIM: Why I can't raise my own boy is more than I can understand. 270 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:42,782 Go on, Mr. Thatcher. 271 00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:45,994 Everything else, the principal, as well as all monies earned... 272 00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:50,165 ...is to be administered by the bank in trust for your son, Charles Foster Kane... 273 00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:52,876 ...until he reaches his 25th birthday, at which time... 274 00:20:53,044 --> 00:20:55,337 ...he is to come into complete possession. 275 00:20:55,504 --> 00:20:57,088 Charles! 276 00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:00,425 Go on, Mr. Thatcher. 277 00:21:00,593 --> 00:21:05,847 Well, it's almost 5. Don't you think I'd better meet the boy? 278 00:21:06,015 --> 00:21:07,974 I've got his trunk all packed. 279 00:21:09,352 --> 00:21:11,686 I've had it packed for a week now. 280 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:16,399 I've arranged for a tutor to meet us in Chicago. 281 00:21:16,567 --> 00:21:18,735 I'd have brought him here with me, but... 282 00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:21,196 MARY: Charles. KANE: Lookie, Mom. 283 00:21:21,364 --> 00:21:22,739 You'd better come inside. 284 00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:25,784 - That's quite a snowman. - I took the pipe out of his mouth. 285 00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:27,369 Did you make it yourself? 286 00:21:27,536 --> 00:21:30,080 Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers. 287 00:21:30,373 --> 00:21:32,415 This is Mr. Thatcher, Charles. 288 00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:34,876 - Hello. - How do you do, Charles? 289 00:21:35,044 --> 00:21:36,503 He comes from the East. 290 00:21:36,671 --> 00:21:38,046 - Pa. - Hello, Charlie. 291 00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:39,422 MARY: Charles. 292 00:21:40,216 --> 00:21:41,549 Yes, Mommy? 293 00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:46,137 Mr. Thatcher is going to take you on a trip with him tonight. 294 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:47,931 You'll be leaving on number 10. 295 00:21:48,099 --> 00:21:50,100 That's the train with all the lights on it. 296 00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:51,309 You going, Mom? 297 00:21:51,477 --> 00:21:54,688 No. Your mother won't be going right away, but she'll... 298 00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:56,773 Where am I going? 299 00:21:56,941 --> 00:22:00,902 You're going to see Chicago and New York and Washington, maybe. Ain't he? 300 00:22:01,070 --> 00:22:02,153 He certainly is. 301 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:05,615 I wish I were a boy going on a trip like that for the first time. 302 00:22:05,783 --> 00:22:08,952 - Why aren't you coming with us, Mom? - We have to stay here, Charles. 303 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,913 You're gonna live with Mr. Thatcher from now on, Charlie. 304 00:22:12,081 --> 00:22:15,500 You're gonna be rich. Your ma figures, well, that is... 305 00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:18,837 ...me and her decided this ain't the place for you to grow up in. 306 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:21,297 You'll probably be the richest man someday... 307 00:22:21,465 --> 00:22:23,883 ...and you ought to get... - You won't be lonely. 308 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:27,429 Lonely, of course not. We're going to have fine times together, we are. 309 00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:30,432 Let's shake hands. Come. I'm not that frightening, am I? 310 00:22:30,725 --> 00:22:33,018 - What do you say? Let's shake. - Why, Charles. 311 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:34,894 - Why, you almost hurt me. - Charlie! 312 00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:37,439 Sleds aren't to hit people, but to sleigh with. 313 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:38,606 KANE: Mom! 314 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,317 MARY: You got to go. Jim! 315 00:22:41,652 --> 00:22:44,946 I'm sorry, Mr. Thatcher. What the kid needs is a good thrashing. 316 00:22:45,114 --> 00:22:46,906 - That's what you think, is it? - Yes. 317 00:22:47,074 --> 00:22:51,327 That's why he's going to be brought up where you can't get at him. 318 00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:13,391 THATCHER: Well, Charles... 319 00:23:15,352 --> 00:23:18,229 ...Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 320 00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:20,565 And a happy New Year. 321 00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:21,941 In closing... 322 00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:25,820 ...may I remind you your 25th birthday, which is now approaching... 323 00:23:25,988 --> 00:23:28,656 ...marks your complete independence from the firm... 324 00:23:28,824 --> 00:23:32,285 ...of Thatcher & Company, as well as acquiring the full responsibility... 325 00:23:32,453 --> 00:23:34,788 ...for the world's sixth largest private fortune. 326 00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:37,999 - Got that? - "The world's sixth largest private fortune." 327 00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:42,003 I don't think you realize the full importance of the position you are to occupy. 328 00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:44,506 I am therefore enclosing for your consideration... 329 00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:47,258 ...a list of your holdings, extensively cross-indexed. 330 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,552 MAN 1: "Dear Mr. Thatcher." MAN 2: It's from Mr. Kane. 331 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,138 - Go on. - "Sorry, I'm not interested in gold mines... 332 00:23:52,306 --> 00:23:54,224 ...oil wells, shipping or real estate." 333 00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:56,518 Not interested? 334 00:23:56,685 --> 00:24:00,021 "One item on your list intrigues me: The New York Inquirer. 335 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:03,024 A little newspaper we acquired in a foreclosure proceeding. 336 00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:05,485 Don't sell it. I am coming back to take charge. 337 00:24:05,653 --> 00:24:08,029 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." 338 00:24:08,197 --> 00:24:12,242 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. 339 00:24:12,409 --> 00:24:13,576 [GROANS] 340 00:24:20,084 --> 00:24:22,210 "Traction Trust exposed." 341 00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:24,921 "Traction Trust bleeds public white." 342 00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:28,341 "Traction Trust smashed by Inquirer." 343 00:24:28,509 --> 00:24:31,928 "Landlords refuse to clear slums." 344 00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:36,599 "Inquirerwins slum fight." Oh... 345 00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:41,187 MAN: "Wall Street backs copper swindle." 346 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,398 "Copper robbers indicted." 347 00:24:43,566 --> 00:24:46,401 "Galleons of Spain off Jersey Coast." 348 00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:49,070 Is that really your idea of how to run a newspaper? 349 00:24:49,238 --> 00:24:52,574 I don't know how to run a newspaper. I try everything I can think of. 350 00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:55,577 You know there's not the slightest proof this... 351 00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:58,580 ...armada's off the Jersey Coast. - Hello, Mr. Bernstein. 352 00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:00,123 Can you prove it isn't? 353 00:25:00,291 --> 00:25:03,001 Mr. Bernstein, I'd like you to meet Mr. Thatcher. 354 00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:04,878 - Mr. Leland. - Hello. 355 00:25:05,045 --> 00:25:06,629 Mr. Thatcher, my ex-guardian. 356 00:25:06,797 --> 00:25:11,926 We have no secrets from our readers. Thatcher is one of our devoted readers. 357 00:25:12,094 --> 00:25:15,847 He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Inquirer since I took over. Read. 358 00:25:16,015 --> 00:25:18,975 "Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose poems... 359 00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:22,854 ...about scenery but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. 360 00:25:23,022 --> 00:25:25,773 There is no war in Cuba." Signed "Wheeler." Any answer? 361 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:30,403 Yes. Dear Wheeler: You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war. 362 00:25:30,571 --> 00:25:33,198 - That's fine. - I like it myself. Send it right away. 363 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,617 I came to see you about this campaign of yours. 364 00:25:35,784 --> 00:25:38,578 The Inquirer's campaign against the Public Transit Company. 365 00:25:38,746 --> 00:25:40,872 Do you know anything we can use against them? 366 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,540 Still the college boy, eh? 367 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:46,711 I was expelled from college, a lot of colleges, you remember? I remember. 368 00:25:46,879 --> 00:25:50,215 Charles, I think I should remind you of a fact you have forgotten. 369 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:54,135 You're one of the largest stockholders in the Public Transit Company. 370 00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:57,305 The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. 371 00:25:57,473 --> 00:26:00,516 As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82,364 shares... 372 00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:04,395 ...of Public Transit Preferred. See, I do have a general idea of my holdings. 373 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:07,023 I sympathize with you. Kane is a scoundrel... 374 00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:10,360 ...his paper should be closed, a committee formed to boycott him. 375 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:14,239 If you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1000. 376 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:17,158 On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer. 377 00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:21,412 As such it's my duty, I'll let you in on a little secret. It is also my pleasure... 378 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:25,708 ...to see that the working people of this community aren't robbed by a pack... 379 00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:28,419 ...of money-mad pirates, just because... 380 00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:32,006 ...they have no one to look after their interests. 381 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:35,343 I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. Thatcher: 382 00:26:35,511 --> 00:26:39,305 I think I'm the man to do it. You see, I have money and property. 383 00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:43,351 If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, somebody else will. 384 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:45,520 Maybe somebody without money or property. 385 00:26:45,688 --> 00:26:46,896 That would be too bad. 386 00:26:47,064 --> 00:26:49,107 I saw your financial statement today. 387 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:52,193 - Oh, did you? - Tell me, honestly... 388 00:26:52,403 --> 00:26:56,614 ...don't you think it's rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise... 389 00:26:56,782 --> 00:26:59,742 ...this Inquirer, that is costing you $1 million a year? 390 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:04,664 Yes. I did lose $1 million last year. I expect to lose $1 million this year. 391 00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:07,417 I expect to lose $1 million next year. 392 00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:10,044 At the rate of $1 million a year... 393 00:27:10,212 --> 00:27:14,007 ...I'll have to close this place in 60 years. 394 00:27:23,225 --> 00:27:25,560 "With respect to the said newspapers... 395 00:27:25,728 --> 00:27:28,146 ...the said Charles Foster Kane... 396 00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:31,858 ...hereby relinquishes all control thereof... 397 00:27:32,276 --> 00:27:34,986 ...and of the syndicates pertaining thereto... 398 00:27:35,154 --> 00:27:41,200 ...and any and all other newspaper, press and publishing properties of any kind... 399 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,953 ...and agrees to abandon all claim thereto..." 400 00:27:44,121 --> 00:27:47,415 KANE: Which means we're bust all right. - Well, out of cash. 401 00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:49,042 KANE: All right, Mr. Bernstein. 402 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:53,629 I've read it, Mr. Thatcher, just let me sign it and go home. 403 00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:57,091 You're too old to call me Mr. Thatcher, Charles. 404 00:27:57,259 --> 00:28:00,219 You're too old to be called anything else. 405 00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:02,555 You were always too old. 406 00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:06,809 "In consideration thereof, Thatcher & Company agrees... 407 00:28:06,977 --> 00:28:09,729 ...to pay to Charles Foster Kane, as long as he lives..." 408 00:28:09,897 --> 00:28:11,439 My allowance. 409 00:28:11,607 --> 00:28:15,401 "You will continue to maintain over your newspapers a large... 410 00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:20,281 ...measure of control. Measure of control." 411 00:28:20,783 --> 00:28:23,993 And we shall seek your advice. 412 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:30,458 This depression is temporary. 413 00:28:31,627 --> 00:28:35,463 There's always the chance that you'll die richer than I will. 414 00:28:35,672 --> 00:28:38,091 It's a cinch I'll die richer than I was born. 415 00:28:38,258 --> 00:28:40,635 We never lost as much as we made. 416 00:28:40,803 --> 00:28:45,223 Yes, yes, but your methods. You know, Charles... 417 00:28:45,391 --> 00:28:50,603 ...you never made a single investment. You always used money to... 418 00:28:51,313 --> 00:28:55,191 To buy things. Hmm? 419 00:28:56,527 --> 00:28:58,820 To buy things. 420 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:03,741 My mother should have chosen a less reliable banker. 421 00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:14,335 I always gagged on that silver spoon. 422 00:29:15,838 --> 00:29:18,339 You know, Mr. Bernstein... 423 00:29:20,008 --> 00:29:22,718 ...if I hadn't been very rich... 424 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:25,555 ...I might have been a really great man. 425 00:29:25,722 --> 00:29:27,890 Don't you think you are? 426 00:29:29,893 --> 00:29:33,104 I think I did pretty well under the circumstances. 427 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:37,358 What would you like to have been? 428 00:29:40,154 --> 00:29:42,488 Everything you hate. 429 00:29:50,372 --> 00:29:54,083 - Oh... - I beg your pardon, sir? What did you say? 430 00:29:54,251 --> 00:29:58,004 - It's 4:30. Isn't it, Jennings? - Yes, ma'am. 431 00:29:58,172 --> 00:30:00,673 You have enjoyed a very rare privilege, young man. 432 00:30:00,841 --> 00:30:03,843 - Did you find what you were looking for? - No. 433 00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:08,264 - You're not Rosebud, are you? - What? 434 00:30:08,432 --> 00:30:11,392 Rosebud, and your name is Jennings, isn't it? 435 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,980 Goodbye, everybody. Thanks for the use of the hall. 436 00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:20,234 Who's a busy man, me? I'm chairman of the board. 437 00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:22,737 I got nothing but time. What do you want to know? 438 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:27,033 We thought maybe... If we could find out what he meant by his last words... 439 00:30:27,201 --> 00:30:29,619 ...as he was dying. - That "Rosebud"? 440 00:30:29,786 --> 00:30:32,205 Maybe some girl? 441 00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:34,499 There were a lot of them in the early days. 442 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:37,793 It's hardly likely that Mr. Kane could have met someone casually... 443 00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:40,129 ...and then 50 years later, on his deathbed... 444 00:30:40,297 --> 00:30:45,092 Well, you're pretty young, Mr. Thompson. 445 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:48,846 A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. 446 00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:50,640 You take me. 447 00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:55,853 One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry... 448 00:30:56,063 --> 00:30:59,190 ...and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in... 449 00:30:59,358 --> 00:31:02,109 ...and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. 450 00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:04,654 A white dress she had on. 451 00:31:04,821 --> 00:31:07,281 She was carrying a white parasol. 452 00:31:07,616 --> 00:31:10,034 I only saw her for one second. 453 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:15,623 She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since... 454 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,085 ...that I haven't thought of that girl. 455 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:23,714 - Who else have you been to see? - Well, I went down to Atlantic City. 456 00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:25,758 Susie? 457 00:31:25,926 --> 00:31:27,260 Thank you. 458 00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:30,680 I called her myself the day after he died. 459 00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:33,432 I thought maybe somebody ought to. 460 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:38,980 - She couldn't even come to the phone. - I'll be seeing her again in a couple of days. 461 00:31:39,147 --> 00:31:41,107 About Rosebud, Mr. Bernstein. 462 00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:44,902 If you'd talk about anything connected with Mr. Kane that you can remember. 463 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,904 You were with him from the beginning. 464 00:31:47,072 --> 00:31:52,451 From before the beginning, young fellow. And now it's after the end. 465 00:31:53,495 --> 00:31:55,788 Have you tried to see anybody except Susie? 466 00:31:55,956 --> 00:32:00,167 I haven't seen anybody else, but I've been through Walter Thatcher's journal. 467 00:32:00,335 --> 00:32:04,755 - That man was the biggest fool I ever met. - He made an awful lot of money. 468 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:07,675 Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... 469 00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:10,386 ...if all you want... 470 00:32:11,972 --> 00:32:14,098 ...is to make a lot of money. 471 00:32:16,018 --> 00:32:18,060 You take Mr. Kane. 472 00:32:19,521 --> 00:32:21,814 It wasn't money he wanted. 473 00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,778 Thatcher never did figure him out. Sometimes even I couldn't. 474 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:31,365 You know who you ought to see? Mr. Leland. 475 00:32:31,533 --> 00:32:34,535 He was Mr. Kane's closest friend. They went to school together. 476 00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:35,828 Harvard? 477 00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:39,540 Oh, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland. 478 00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:42,335 He was thrown out of a lot of colleges. 479 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:45,212 Mr. Leland never had a nickel. 480 00:32:45,505 --> 00:32:48,466 One of those families where the father is worth $10 million... 481 00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:52,887 ...then one day he shoots himself, and it turns out there's nothing but debts. 482 00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,807 He was with Mr. Kane and me... 483 00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:00,728 ...the first day Mr. Kane took over the Inquirer. 484 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:10,905 Take a good look at it, Jedediah. 485 00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:15,034 It's going to look a lot different one of these days. Come on. 486 00:33:23,794 --> 00:33:27,046 There ain't no bedrooms in this joint. That's a newspaper building. 487 00:33:27,214 --> 00:33:30,591 You're getting paid, mister, for opinions or for hauling? 488 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:31,801 Ugh. 489 00:33:34,763 --> 00:33:37,682 - Jedediah. - After you, Mr. Kane. 490 00:33:49,903 --> 00:33:52,113 Excuse me, sir, but I... 491 00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:54,907 [RINGING BELL] 492 00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:58,869 Welcome, Mr. Kane. Welcome. 493 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,206 Welcome to the Inquirer, Mr. Kane. 494 00:34:02,374 --> 00:34:04,583 I am Herbert Carter, the editor-in-chief. 495 00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:08,546 - Thank you, Mr. Carter. This is Mr. Leland... - How do you do, Mr. Leland? 496 00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:11,549 Our new dramatic critic. I hope I haven't made a mistake. 497 00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:13,843 - It is dramatic critic, right? - That's right. 498 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:17,596 - Are they standing for me? - You? Oh, Mr. Kane. 499 00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:18,889 Standing? 500 00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:20,599 - How do you do? - How do you do? 501 00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:23,018 I thought it would be a nice little gesture. 502 00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:26,313 - Ask them to sit down, will you, please. - The new publisher. 503 00:34:26,857 --> 00:34:30,651 - You may resume your duties, gentlemen. - Thank you. 504 00:34:30,819 --> 00:34:34,155 - I didn't know your plans. - I don't know my plans myself. 505 00:34:34,489 --> 00:34:36,741 - Matter of fact, I haven't got any plans. - No? 506 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:38,284 Except to get out a newspaper. 507 00:34:38,452 --> 00:34:39,869 [CRASHING] 508 00:34:43,373 --> 00:34:45,082 - Whoops. KANE: Mr. Bernstein. 509 00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:46,459 Yes, Mr. Kane. 510 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:48,919 Mr. Carter, this is Mr. Bernstein. 511 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:54,008 - Mr. Bernstein is my general manager. - How do you do, Mr. Carter? 512 00:34:54,176 --> 00:34:56,010 KANE: Mr. Carter. - How do you do? 513 00:34:57,012 --> 00:34:59,305 - Yes, Mr. Bernstine. BERNSTEIN: Stein. 514 00:34:59,473 --> 00:35:03,017 - Kane. - Mr. Carter, is this your office? 515 00:35:03,185 --> 00:35:07,271 My little private sanctum is at your disposal. 516 00:35:07,439 --> 00:35:10,816 - Excuse me. - But I don't understand. 517 00:35:11,193 --> 00:35:15,196 Mr. Carter, I'm going to live right here in your office as long as I have to. 518 00:35:16,323 --> 00:35:18,199 Live here? Yes? 519 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:21,118 - Excuse me. - But a morning newspaper, after all... 520 00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:22,369 Excuse me. 521 00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:26,207 We're practically closed for 12 hours a day. 522 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:29,543 That's one of the things that's going to have to be changed here. 523 00:35:29,711 --> 00:35:33,214 - The news goes on for 24 hours a day. - Twenty-four? 524 00:35:33,381 --> 00:35:36,675 - That's right. BERNSTEIN: Excuse me. 525 00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:38,427 It's impossible... 526 00:35:38,595 --> 00:35:43,557 I've drawn that cartoon. I'm no good as a cartoonist. 527 00:35:43,725 --> 00:35:45,226 You certainly aren't. 528 00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:47,102 You're the dramatic critic, Leland. 529 00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:49,146 - You still eating? - I'm still hungry. 530 00:35:49,314 --> 00:35:51,732 Here's a front-page story in the Chronicle... 531 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:54,902 ...about a Mrs. Harry Silverstone in Brooklyn who's missing. 532 00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:59,615 She's probably murdered. Why isn't there something about it in the Inquirer? 533 00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:01,492 We're running a newspaper... 534 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:04,578 - I'm absolutely starving to death. ...not a scandal sheet. 535 00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:06,622 That's all right. 536 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:10,709 Mr. Carter, here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. 537 00:36:10,877 --> 00:36:13,295 Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline? 538 00:36:13,463 --> 00:36:14,880 - The news wasn't big enough. - Mm-hm. 539 00:36:15,048 --> 00:36:19,677 Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough. 540 00:36:19,845 --> 00:36:22,388 - That's right! - The murder of Mrs. Harry Silverstone... 541 00:36:22,556 --> 00:36:24,640 There's no proof that she was murdered, or dead. 542 00:36:24,808 --> 00:36:27,601 It says she's missing. The neighbors are getting suspicious. 543 00:36:27,769 --> 00:36:30,563 It's not our function to report the gossip of housewives. 544 00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:34,859 If we were interested in that kind of thing, we could fill the paper twice over, daily. 545 00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:38,279 That's the kind of thing we are going to be interested in from now on. 546 00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:41,365 I want you to send your best man to see Mr. Silverstone. 547 00:36:41,533 --> 00:36:45,286 Have him tell Mr. Silverstone if he doesn't produce his wife, Mrs. Silverstone... 548 00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:47,454 ...the Inquirerwill have him arrested. - Wha...? 549 00:36:47,622 --> 00:36:50,040 Tell Mr. Silverstone he's a detective from, uh... 550 00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:52,626 - Central Office. - The Central Office. 551 00:36:52,961 --> 00:36:57,423 If Mr. Silverstone gets suspicious and asks to see your man's badge... 552 00:36:57,591 --> 00:37:01,385 ...your man is to get indignant and call Mr. Silverstone an anarchist. 553 00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,805 Loudly, so the neighbors can hear. You ready for dinner, Jedediah? 554 00:37:04,973 --> 00:37:08,142 I can't see that the function of a respectable newspaper... 555 00:37:08,310 --> 00:37:11,437 Thank you so much, Mr. Carter. Goodbye. 556 00:37:12,022 --> 00:37:13,272 Goodbye. 557 00:37:13,982 --> 00:37:16,817 MAN: Paper! Read all about it! 558 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:19,945 Read all about it in the early morning Chronicle. 559 00:37:20,113 --> 00:37:22,531 The mystery of the lady that vanished in Brooklyn. 560 00:37:23,992 --> 00:37:27,661 Read all about it in the early morning Chronicle. 561 00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:43,719 We'll be on the street soon, Charlie, another 10 minutes. 562 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:46,513 Three hours and 50 minutes late, but we did it. 563 00:37:46,681 --> 00:37:48,182 - Tired? - A tough day. 564 00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:49,892 - A wasted day. - Wasted? 565 00:37:50,060 --> 00:37:52,937 You only made the paper over four times tonight, that's all. 566 00:37:53,188 --> 00:37:56,565 I've changed the front page a little, Mr. Bernstein. That's not enough. 567 00:37:56,733 --> 00:38:00,945 There's something I've got to get into this paper besides pictures and print. 568 00:38:01,529 --> 00:38:04,573 I've got to make the New York Inquirer as important to New York... 569 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:06,617 ...as the gas in that light. 570 00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:08,994 What are you going to do, Charlie? 571 00:38:09,162 --> 00:38:13,290 My Declaration of Principles. Don't smile, Jedediah. 572 00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:16,210 I've got it all written out here. 573 00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:19,713 You don't want to make any promises you don't want to keep. 574 00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:21,548 These'll be kept. 575 00:38:22,384 --> 00:38:24,885 "I'll provide the people of this city... 576 00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:28,806 ...with a daily paper that will tell all the news honestly. 577 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:33,352 - I will also provide..." - That's two sentences starting with "I." 578 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,021 People will know who's responsible... 579 00:38:36,189 --> 00:38:40,150 ...and they'll get the truth in the Inquirer, quickly, simply and entertainingly. 580 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:43,570 No special interests will be allowed to interfere with that truth. 581 00:38:43,738 --> 00:38:47,574 "I will also provide them with a fighting and tireless champion of their rights... 582 00:38:47,742 --> 00:38:50,327 ...as citizens and as human beings." 583 00:38:50,996 --> 00:38:52,287 Signed: 584 00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:55,249 "Charles Foster Kane." 585 00:38:57,210 --> 00:38:59,837 - Can I have that, Charlie? - I'm going to print it. 586 00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:01,422 Solly! 587 00:39:02,424 --> 00:39:03,424 SOLLY: Yes, Mr. Kane? 588 00:39:03,591 --> 00:39:06,385 I want you to run this editorial in a box on the front page. 589 00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:07,928 This morning's front page? 590 00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:11,098 That's right, Solly, that means we'll have to remake again. 591 00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:12,975 - Yes. - Go down and tell them. 592 00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:14,435 - All right. - Solly. 593 00:39:14,728 --> 00:39:18,439 When you're through with that, I'd like to have it back. 594 00:39:20,108 --> 00:39:23,360 I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. 595 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:27,573 I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. 596 00:39:27,824 --> 00:39:29,950 - A document... - Sure. 597 00:39:30,118 --> 00:39:33,537 ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution... 598 00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:36,874 ...and my first report card at school. 599 00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:01,815 [NEWSPAPER SELLERS CHATTERING] 600 00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:08,405 I know you're tired, gentlemen, but I brought you here for a reason. 601 00:40:08,573 --> 00:40:12,159 - This little pilgrimage will do us good. - The Chronicle's a good newspaper. 602 00:40:12,327 --> 00:40:15,329 Chronicle's a good idea for a newspaper. Notice the circulation. 603 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:20,292 495,000. But look who's working for the Chronicle. 604 00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:23,629 - With them, it's no trick to get circulation. KANE: You're right. 605 00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:27,049 BERNSTEIN: You know how long it took the Chronicle to get that staff together? 606 00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:29,968 - Twenty years. KANE: Twenty years? 607 00:40:30,512 --> 00:40:35,516 Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. 608 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:37,851 I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. 609 00:40:38,019 --> 00:40:41,980 Tonight, six years later, I got my candy, all of it. 610 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,399 Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer. 611 00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:47,402 Make an extra copy of that picture and mail it to the Chronicle. 612 00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:49,113 [MEN LAUGHING] 613 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,533 It'll make you all happy to learn that our circulation this morning... 614 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,786 ...was the greatest in New York: 684,000. 615 00:40:56,412 --> 00:41:00,040 684,132. 616 00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:01,458 Right. 617 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:05,629 I hope you'll forgive my rudeness in taking leave of you. 618 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,173 I'm going abroad next week for a vacation. 619 00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:11,802 I've promised my doctor for sometime that I would leave when I could. 620 00:41:11,970 --> 00:41:13,303 I now realize I can't. 621 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:14,513 [GROUP LAUGHING] 622 00:41:14,681 --> 00:41:17,015 Say, Mr. Kane, as long as you're promising... 623 00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:21,061 ...there's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you ain't bought yet. 624 00:41:21,229 --> 00:41:23,147 You can't blame me, Mr. Bernstein. 625 00:41:23,565 --> 00:41:26,191 They've been making statues for 2000 years. 626 00:41:26,359 --> 00:41:28,360 And I've only been buying for five. 627 00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:30,988 - Promise me, Mr. Kane. - I promise, Mr. Bernstein. 628 00:41:31,156 --> 00:41:33,907 - Thank you. - Mr. Bernstein? 629 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:36,743 You don't expect me to keep any of those promises, do you? 630 00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:38,829 [GROUP LAUGHING AND CLAPPING] 631 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,123 And now, gentlemen! 632 00:41:41,291 --> 00:41:44,501 Your complete attention, if you please. 633 00:41:45,253 --> 00:41:46,295 [WHISTLES] 634 00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:50,257 [BAND PLAYING] 635 00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:53,510 Are we going to declare war on Spain? 636 00:41:58,641 --> 00:42:00,267 [WHISTLES] 637 00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:04,897 MAN: Oh, mama, here they come. Shoot me while I'm happy. 638 00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:07,065 [GROUP CHEERING] 639 00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:18,285 I said, "Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?" 640 00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:20,287 The Inquirer already has. 641 00:42:20,622 --> 00:42:24,458 You long-faced, overdressed anarchist. 642 00:42:24,667 --> 00:42:26,418 LELAND: I am not overdressed. 643 00:42:26,586 --> 00:42:29,880 You are, too. Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie. 644 00:42:30,048 --> 00:42:31,965 Let's have the song about Charlie. 645 00:42:32,133 --> 00:42:35,427 MAN 1: Is there a song about Charlie? MAN 2: Is there a song about you, Mr. Kane? 646 00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:39,890 You buy a bag of peanuts in this town, you get a song written about you. 647 00:42:49,734 --> 00:42:52,069 I've seen that fellow. He's good. 648 00:42:52,278 --> 00:42:53,612 Good evening, Mr. Kane. 649 00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:55,155 SINGER [SINGING]: There is a man CHORUS: There is a man 650 00:42:55,323 --> 00:42:56,698 SINGER: A certain man CHORUS: A certain man 651 00:42:56,908 --> 00:43:00,160 And for the poor you may be sure That he'll do all he can 652 00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:01,954 - Who is this one? - Who is this one? 653 00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:03,789 - This favorite son - This favorite son 654 00:43:03,957 --> 00:43:06,708 Just by his action Has the traction magnates on the run 655 00:43:06,876 --> 00:43:08,669 - Who loves to smoke - Who loves to smoke 656 00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:10,212 - Enjoys a joke - Ha-ha-ha 657 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:13,382 Who wouldn't get a bit upset If he were really broke 658 00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:15,217 - With wealth and fame - With wealth and fame 659 00:43:15,385 --> 00:43:16,718 He's still the same 660 00:43:16,886 --> 00:43:20,389 I'll bet you five you're not alive If you don't know his name 661 00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:24,726 [CHATTERING] 662 00:43:25,895 --> 00:43:27,854 What is his name? 663 00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:30,190 It's Charlie Kane, it's Mister Kane! 664 00:43:30,358 --> 00:43:34,152 He doesn't like that Mister He likes good old Charlie Kane 665 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:41,076 [VOCALIZING] 666 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,754 - Isn't it wonderful? Such a party. - Yes. 667 00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:54,673 What's the matter? 668 00:43:54,841 --> 00:43:58,051 SINGER: Who says a miss was made to kiss 669 00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:01,221 And when he meets one Always tries to do exactly this 670 00:44:01,389 --> 00:44:04,558 Who buys the food Who buys the drinks 671 00:44:04,726 --> 00:44:07,978 Who thinks that dough was made to spend And acts the way he thinks 672 00:44:08,146 --> 00:44:10,856 Now is it, Joe, no, no, no 673 00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:14,192 Bernstein, these men who are now with the Inquirer... 674 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,987 ...who were with the Chronicle until yesterday... 675 00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:18,572 MAN 1: Oh, mama, please. 676 00:44:18,740 --> 00:44:20,449 MAN 2: Give me that. MAN 3: What? The blond? 677 00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:24,077 - No, the brunette. - Where did you learn that, Charlie? 678 00:44:25,371 --> 00:44:28,498 Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle... 679 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:31,668 ...weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle policy... 680 00:44:31,836 --> 00:44:34,004 ...as they are now to our policies? 681 00:44:34,172 --> 00:44:36,882 Sure, they're just like anybody else. 682 00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:39,176 They got work to do, they do it. 683 00:44:39,469 --> 00:44:42,429 Only they happen to be the best men in the business. 684 00:44:50,772 --> 00:44:55,108 Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for? 685 00:44:55,276 --> 00:44:57,069 Certainly not. 686 00:44:58,071 --> 00:45:03,116 Listen, Mr. Kane, he'll have them changed to his kind of newspapermen in a week. 687 00:45:03,284 --> 00:45:07,621 There's always a chance, of course, that they'll change Mr. Kane. 688 00:45:07,789 --> 00:45:09,164 Without his knowing it. 689 00:45:12,668 --> 00:45:16,254 Mr. Leland, I got a cable from Mr. Kane! 690 00:45:17,298 --> 00:45:21,301 - Mr. Leland! I got a cable from Mr. Kane. - What? 691 00:45:21,469 --> 00:45:23,345 - From Paris, France. - What? 692 00:45:23,513 --> 00:45:26,473 - From Paris, France. - Come on in. 693 00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:32,312 [SINGING] Who by his action Has the traction magnates on the run 694 00:45:32,647 --> 00:45:37,692 It's a good thing he promised not to send back any more statues. 695 00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:38,944 Bernstein, Bernstein. 696 00:45:39,112 --> 00:45:41,780 Look, he wants to buy the world's biggest diamond. 697 00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:45,409 Why didn't you go to Europe with him? He wanted you to. 698 00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:48,078 I wanted Charlie to have fun, with me along... 699 00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:50,372 Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? 700 00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:55,419 Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England schoolmarm? 701 00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:57,504 Yes. 702 00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:03,260 If you thought I'd answer you different from what Mr. Kane tells you, I wouldn't. 703 00:46:03,428 --> 00:46:04,761 "World's biggest diamond." 704 00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:07,013 I didn't know Charlie was collecting diamonds. 705 00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:08,348 He ain't. 706 00:46:08,516 --> 00:46:12,144 He's collecting somebody that's collecting diamonds. 707 00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:15,689 Anyway, he ain't only collecting statues. 708 00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:19,818 "Welcome home, Mr. Kane... 709 00:46:19,986 --> 00:46:23,655 ...from 467 employees of the New York Inquirer." 710 00:46:23,823 --> 00:46:25,323 MAN 1: Here he comes! 711 00:46:29,370 --> 00:46:31,163 MAN 2: Welcome, Mr. Kane. 712 00:46:31,956 --> 00:46:33,707 - I know I've a mustache. - It looks awful. 713 00:46:33,875 --> 00:46:37,377 Have we got a society editor? 714 00:46:37,545 --> 00:46:40,380 - Right here, Mr. Kane. - Miss Townsend is the society editor. 715 00:46:40,548 --> 00:46:43,216 Miss Townsend, this is Mr. Charles Foster Kane. 716 00:46:43,426 --> 00:46:48,555 Uh... Miss Townsend, I've been away so long. I don't know your routine. 717 00:46:49,682 --> 00:46:52,726 I got a little social announcement. 718 00:46:52,894 --> 00:46:56,897 I wish you wouldn't treat it any differently than you would any other... 719 00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:58,732 ...social announcement. 720 00:46:59,358 --> 00:47:02,360 Mr. Kane, on behalf of all the employees of the Inquirer... 721 00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:06,031 Mr. Bernstein, thank you very much, everybody, I... 722 00:47:06,908 --> 00:47:11,036 I'm sorry, I can't accept it now. 723 00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:12,662 Goodbye. 724 00:47:13,331 --> 00:47:15,540 Say, he was in an awful hurry. 725 00:47:15,708 --> 00:47:18,585 Hey, everybody, look out here. 726 00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:20,712 Let's go to the window. 727 00:47:20,922 --> 00:47:23,757 - Mr. Leland! Mr. Bernstein! - Yes, Ms. Townsend? 728 00:47:23,925 --> 00:47:26,718 This announcement: "Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Monroe Norton... 729 00:47:26,886 --> 00:47:30,347 ...announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Monroe Norton... 730 00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:32,182 ...to Mr. Charles Foster Kane." - Huh? 731 00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:33,850 Come on. 732 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:41,066 TOWNSEND: Emily Monroe Norton, she's the niece of the President of the United States. 733 00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:43,318 President's niece? 734 00:47:43,528 --> 00:47:46,071 Before he's through, she'll be a president's wife. 735 00:47:47,406 --> 00:47:50,575 [ALL LAUGHING] 736 00:47:54,956 --> 00:47:58,291 The way things turned out, I don't need to tell you. 737 00:47:58,459 --> 00:48:01,211 Miss Emily Norton was no rosebud. 738 00:48:01,379 --> 00:48:03,630 It didn't end very well, did it? 739 00:48:03,798 --> 00:48:05,423 It ended. 740 00:48:06,217 --> 00:48:10,011 Then there was Susie. That ended too. 741 00:48:12,056 --> 00:48:14,975 You know, Mr. Thompson, I was thinking... 742 00:48:15,476 --> 00:48:18,436 ...this Rosebud you're trying to find out about... 743 00:48:19,647 --> 00:48:20,981 THOMPSON: Yes? 744 00:48:25,403 --> 00:48:27,821 Maybe that was something he lost. 745 00:48:28,656 --> 00:48:31,992 Mr. Kane was a man who lost almost everything he had. 746 00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:34,869 You ought to see Jed Leland. 747 00:48:35,037 --> 00:48:38,164 Of course, he and Mr. Kane didn't exactly see eye to eye. 748 00:48:38,332 --> 00:48:40,208 You take the Spanish-American war. 749 00:48:40,376 --> 00:48:43,670 I guess Mr. Leland was right. That was Mr. Kane's war. 750 00:48:43,838 --> 00:48:46,798 We didn't really have anything to fight about. 751 00:48:47,550 --> 00:48:51,177 Do you think if it hadn't been for that war of Mr. Kane's... 752 00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:54,222 ...we'd have the Panama Canal? 753 00:48:54,849 --> 00:48:57,350 I wish I knew where Mr. Leland was. 754 00:48:57,977 --> 00:49:01,146 A lot of the time now they don't tell me these things. 755 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,232 Maybe even he's dead. 756 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,026 In case you'd like to know... 757 00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:09,070 ...he's at the Huntington Memorial Hospital on 180th Street. 758 00:49:09,238 --> 00:49:10,655 You don't say. I had... 759 00:49:10,823 --> 00:49:13,617 Nothing particular the matter with him, they tell me, just... 760 00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:16,369 Just old age. 761 00:49:17,663 --> 00:49:22,542 It's the only disease that you don't look forward to being cured of. 762 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,474 I can remember absolutely everything, young man. 763 00:49:37,642 --> 00:49:38,850 That's my curse. 764 00:49:39,018 --> 00:49:43,563 That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race: Memory. 765 00:49:44,523 --> 00:49:49,361 I was his oldest friend, and as far as I was concerned, he behaved like a swine. 766 00:49:49,570 --> 00:49:53,698 Not that Charlie was ever brutal. He just did brutal things. 767 00:49:54,450 --> 00:49:58,745 Maybe I wasn't his friend, but if I wasn't, he never had one. 768 00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:02,540 Maybe I was what you nowadays call a stooge. 769 00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,959 THOMPSON: You were about to say something about Rosebud. 770 00:50:05,127 --> 00:50:07,253 Do you happen to have a good cigar? 771 00:50:07,421 --> 00:50:11,216 I've got a young physician here who thinks I'm going to give up smoking. 772 00:50:11,384 --> 00:50:13,802 THOMPSON: No, I'm afraid I haven't. Sorry. - Oh, oh. Ha, ha. 773 00:50:13,969 --> 00:50:15,595 I changed the subject, didn't I? 774 00:50:15,763 --> 00:50:17,889 What a disagreeable old man I have become. 775 00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:19,099 [CHUCKLES] 776 00:50:19,266 --> 00:50:24,437 You're a reporter and you want to know what I think about Charlie Kane. 777 00:50:24,939 --> 00:50:27,273 Well... Heh. 778 00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:29,901 I suppose he had some private sort of greatness. 779 00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:31,695 But he kept it to himself. 780 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:34,739 He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away. 781 00:50:34,907 --> 00:50:37,867 He just left you a tip. 782 00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:40,662 Hmm? Heh. He had a generous mind. 783 00:50:40,830 --> 00:50:43,998 I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. 784 00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:46,960 But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. 785 00:50:47,128 --> 00:50:50,714 He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. 786 00:50:50,965 --> 00:50:53,174 I suppose he died without one. 787 00:50:53,342 --> 00:50:55,969 That must have been pretty unpleasant. 788 00:50:56,303 --> 00:51:00,890 Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death. 789 00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:04,310 But we do know what we're leaving. We do believe in something. 790 00:51:04,979 --> 00:51:07,981 Are you absolutely sure you haven't got a cigar? 791 00:51:08,149 --> 00:51:10,108 - Sorry, Mr. Leland. - Never mind. 792 00:51:10,276 --> 00:51:13,653 - What do you know about Rosebud? - "Rosebud"? 793 00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:18,074 Oh. Oh. His dying words: "Rosebud." 794 00:51:18,409 --> 00:51:20,493 I saw that in the Inquirer. 795 00:51:21,495 --> 00:51:24,456 I never believed anything I saw in the Inquirer. 796 00:51:24,623 --> 00:51:25,957 Anything else? 797 00:51:26,125 --> 00:51:29,794 I can tell you about Emily. I went to dancing school with Emily. 798 00:51:30,171 --> 00:51:31,963 I was very graceful. 799 00:51:32,923 --> 00:51:36,217 - We were talking about the first Mrs. Kane. - What was she like? 800 00:51:36,385 --> 00:51:38,845 She was like all the girls I knew in dancing school. 801 00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:41,723 Very nice girl. Emily was a little nicer. 802 00:51:41,891 --> 00:51:43,308 [CLEARS THROAT] 803 00:51:43,476 --> 00:51:45,477 After the first couple of months... 804 00:51:45,644 --> 00:51:49,898 ...she and Charlie didn't see much of each other except at breakfast. 805 00:51:50,566 --> 00:51:53,234 It was a marriage just like any other marriage. 806 00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:05,079 - You're beautiful. - I can't be. 807 00:52:05,247 --> 00:52:06,915 Yes, you are. You're very beautiful. 808 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:09,626 I've never been to six parties in one night before. 809 00:52:09,877 --> 00:52:12,545 - I've never been up this late. - It's a matter of habit. 810 00:52:12,713 --> 00:52:15,590 - What will the servants think? - That we enjoyed ourselves. 811 00:52:15,758 --> 00:52:18,218 Why do you have to go straight off to the newspaper? 812 00:52:18,385 --> 00:52:22,055 You never should've married a newspaperman, they're worse than sailors. 813 00:52:22,973 --> 00:52:24,891 I absolutely adore you. 814 00:52:25,726 --> 00:52:28,645 Charles, even newspapermen have to sleep. 815 00:52:30,105 --> 00:52:33,942 I'll call Mr. Bernstein and have him put off my appointments till noon. 816 00:52:34,902 --> 00:52:36,402 What time is it? 817 00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:38,530 I don't know. It's late. 818 00:52:40,616 --> 00:52:42,575 It's early. 819 00:52:42,743 --> 00:52:44,410 Charles... 820 00:52:44,995 --> 00:52:47,914 Do you know how long you kept me waiting last night... 821 00:52:48,082 --> 00:52:50,875 ...when you went to the newspaper for 10 minutes? 822 00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:54,254 What do you do in a newspaper in the middle of the night? 823 00:52:54,421 --> 00:52:59,384 My dear, your only correspondent is the Inquirer. 824 00:52:59,552 --> 00:53:02,262 Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood. 825 00:53:02,429 --> 00:53:04,889 I don't spend that much time on the newspaper. 826 00:53:05,057 --> 00:53:09,060 It isn't just the time. It's what you print, attacking the president. 827 00:53:09,228 --> 00:53:12,355 - You mean Uncle John. - I mean the president of the United States. 828 00:53:12,523 --> 00:53:14,899 He's still Uncle John and a well-meaning fathead... 829 00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:18,361 ...who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. 830 00:53:18,529 --> 00:53:22,240 - This whole oil scandal... - He happens to be the president, not you. 831 00:53:22,408 --> 00:53:25,118 That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days. 832 00:53:25,286 --> 00:53:31,207 Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday. 833 00:53:31,375 --> 00:53:34,210 I simply can't have it in the nursery. 834 00:53:36,297 --> 00:53:39,257 Mr. Bernstein is apt to pay a visit to the nursery now and then. 835 00:53:39,425 --> 00:53:40,925 Does he have to? 836 00:53:42,303 --> 00:53:43,344 Yes. 837 00:53:43,512 --> 00:53:48,308 - Really, Charles, people will think... - What I tell them to think. 838 00:54:06,744 --> 00:54:08,786 THOMPSON: Wasn't he ever in love with her? 839 00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:10,705 He married for love. 840 00:54:11,624 --> 00:54:12,999 Love. 841 00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:15,335 That is why he did everything. 842 00:54:15,502 --> 00:54:18,338 That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough. 843 00:54:18,505 --> 00:54:21,549 He wanted all the voters to love him too. 844 00:54:22,217 --> 00:54:25,219 All he wanted out of life was love. 845 00:54:25,554 --> 00:54:28,806 That's Charlie's story. How he lost it. 846 00:54:29,016 --> 00:54:32,685 You see, he just didn't have any to give. 847 00:54:33,187 --> 00:54:35,396 He loved Charlie Kane, of course. 848 00:54:35,564 --> 00:54:36,606 [CHUCKLES] 849 00:54:36,774 --> 00:54:38,024 Very dearly. 850 00:54:38,734 --> 00:54:40,902 And his mother, I guess he always loved her. 851 00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:44,113 - How about his second wife? - Susan Alexander? 852 00:54:44,865 --> 00:54:47,033 You know what Charlie called her? 853 00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:50,036 The day after he'd met her, he told me about her. 854 00:54:50,204 --> 00:54:54,958 He said she was "a cross-section of the American public." 855 00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:56,542 [CHUCKLES] 856 00:54:57,336 --> 00:55:00,922 I guess he couldn't help it. She must have had something for him. 857 00:55:01,090 --> 00:55:03,883 That first night, according to Charlie... 858 00:55:04,927 --> 00:55:07,595 ...all she had was a toothache. 859 00:55:07,763 --> 00:55:09,639 [HORSE'S HOOVES CLOPPING] 860 00:55:12,685 --> 00:55:14,227 [WATER SPLASHING] 861 00:55:21,902 --> 00:55:26,072 [CHUCKLING] 862 00:55:33,664 --> 00:55:38,334 [LAUGHING] 863 00:55:38,502 --> 00:55:40,878 What are you laughing at, young lady? 864 00:55:41,380 --> 00:55:42,588 Ooh. 865 00:55:42,756 --> 00:55:45,425 - What's the matter with you? - [IN MUFFLED VOICE] Toothache. 866 00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,260 - What? - Toothache. 867 00:55:47,428 --> 00:55:48,761 Toothache? 868 00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:52,015 Oh. Oh. 869 00:55:52,182 --> 00:55:53,474 You mean you've got a toothache. 870 00:55:53,642 --> 00:55:54,934 [LAUGHING] 871 00:55:55,102 --> 00:55:57,937 - What's funny about that? - You're funny, mister. 872 00:55:58,105 --> 00:56:00,606 - You've got dirt on your face. - Not dirt, it's mud. 873 00:56:00,774 --> 00:56:02,984 Do you want some hot water? I live right here. 874 00:56:03,152 --> 00:56:05,111 What's that, young lady? 875 00:56:06,363 --> 00:56:08,781 I said, if you wanted some hot water... 876 00:56:09,116 --> 00:56:11,117 ...I could get you some... 877 00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:13,745 ...hot water. 878 00:56:16,874 --> 00:56:19,167 All right, thank you very much. 879 00:56:31,430 --> 00:56:33,347 [SUSAN GROANING] 880 00:56:33,515 --> 00:56:35,433 KANE: Do I look any better now? 881 00:56:35,601 --> 00:56:40,313 - This medicine doesn't do a bit of good. - What you need is to get your mind off it. 882 00:56:40,606 --> 00:56:42,023 SUSAN: Hey. 883 00:56:45,486 --> 00:56:48,613 Excuse me, but my landlady prefers me to keep this door open... 884 00:56:48,822 --> 00:56:51,282 ...when I have a gentleman caller. - All right. 885 00:56:51,450 --> 00:56:53,951 - Oh. - You have got a toothache, haven't you? 886 00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:57,080 - I surely have. - Why don't you try laughing at me again? 887 00:56:57,247 --> 00:56:59,123 - What? - I'm still pretty funny. 888 00:56:59,291 --> 00:57:01,793 I know, but you don't want me to laugh at you. 889 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,920 - I don't want your tooth to hurt, either. - Ooh. 890 00:57:04,088 --> 00:57:05,338 Look at me. 891 00:57:05,798 --> 00:57:07,924 - See that? - What are you doing? 892 00:57:08,092 --> 00:57:10,885 I'm wiggling both my ears at the same time. 893 00:57:11,470 --> 00:57:12,887 [CHUCKLES] 894 00:57:13,055 --> 00:57:14,263 That's it, smile. 895 00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:16,182 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 896 00:57:17,518 --> 00:57:21,312 It took me two solid years at the best boys' school in the world to learn that. 897 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,315 The fellow who taught me is now president of Venezuela. 898 00:57:24,483 --> 00:57:26,400 [BOTH LAUGH] 899 00:57:26,568 --> 00:57:27,735 That's it! 900 00:57:27,903 --> 00:57:29,529 [LAUGHING] 901 00:57:31,824 --> 00:57:34,450 SUSAN: Is it a giraffe? KANE: No, not a giraffe. 902 00:57:34,618 --> 00:57:37,328 - I bet it is. - What? 903 00:57:37,496 --> 00:57:39,580 Well, then it's an elephant. 904 00:57:39,748 --> 00:57:43,709 - It's supposed to be a rooster. - A rooster! 905 00:57:43,877 --> 00:57:47,755 You know an awful lot of tricks. Are you a professional magician? 906 00:57:47,923 --> 00:57:50,424 - No, I'm not a magician. - I was just joking. 907 00:57:50,592 --> 00:57:52,176 You really don't know who I am? 908 00:57:52,344 --> 00:57:55,346 You told me your name, Mr. Kane, but I'm awfully ignorant. 909 00:57:55,514 --> 00:57:59,976 I guess you caught on to that. I bet I've heard your name a million times. 910 00:58:00,144 --> 00:58:03,187 You really like me though, even though you don't know who I am? 911 00:58:03,355 --> 00:58:06,774 I surely do. You've been wonderful. 912 00:58:07,860 --> 00:58:10,528 Without you I don't know what I would have done. 913 00:58:10,696 --> 00:58:13,990 I had a toothache, and I don't know many people. 914 00:58:14,283 --> 00:58:16,200 I know too many people. 915 00:58:16,618 --> 00:58:18,661 I guess we're both lonely. 916 00:58:18,954 --> 00:58:22,874 Want to know what I was going to do before I ruined my best Sunday clothes? 917 00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:26,210 I bet they're not your best Sunday clothes. You probably have more. 918 00:58:26,378 --> 00:58:27,545 I was just joking. 919 00:58:29,256 --> 00:58:33,134 I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse... 920 00:58:33,302 --> 00:58:35,303 ...in search of my youth. 921 00:58:36,388 --> 00:58:40,933 You see, my mother died a long time ago. Her things were put in storage out West. 922 00:58:41,101 --> 00:58:43,477 There wasn't any other place to put them. 923 00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:47,607 I thought I'd send for them now. Tonight I was going to take a look at them. 924 00:58:47,774 --> 00:58:49,525 A sort of sentimental journey. 925 00:58:53,572 --> 00:58:55,698 I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do? 926 00:58:55,866 --> 00:58:57,200 - Me? - Mm-hm. 927 00:58:57,367 --> 00:58:59,452 - How old did you say you were? - I didn't say. 928 00:58:59,620 --> 00:59:02,205 If you had, I wouldn't have asked you. 929 00:59:02,372 --> 00:59:03,539 - How old? - Pretty old. 930 00:59:03,707 --> 00:59:05,708 - How old? - Twenty-two in August. 931 00:59:05,876 --> 00:59:07,793 That's a ripe old age. What do you do? 932 00:59:07,961 --> 00:59:11,422 I work at Seligman's. I'm in charge of the sheet music. 933 00:59:11,673 --> 00:59:16,802 - Is that what you want to do? - No, I wanted to be a singer, I guess. 934 00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:20,556 - That is, I didn't. My mother did for me. - What happened to the singing? 935 00:59:20,724 --> 00:59:24,644 Mother always thought... She always talked about grand opera for me. 936 00:59:24,811 --> 00:59:26,020 Imagine. 937 00:59:26,313 --> 00:59:30,524 But my voice isn't that kind. It's just, you know what mothers are like. 938 00:59:32,319 --> 00:59:33,527 Yes, I know. 939 00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:37,782 - Have you got a piano? - A piano? 940 00:59:37,950 --> 00:59:40,952 - Mm-hm. - Yes, there's one in the parlor. 941 00:59:41,119 --> 00:59:44,205 - Would you sing for me? - You wouldn't want to hear me sing. 942 00:59:44,373 --> 00:59:45,748 Yes, I would. 943 00:59:47,668 --> 00:59:49,710 Don't tell me your toothache is bothering you. 944 00:59:49,878 --> 00:59:51,587 No, that's all gone. 945 00:59:53,340 --> 00:59:55,299 All right. 946 00:59:56,260 --> 00:59:57,969 Let's go to the parlor. 947 00:59:58,512 --> 01:00:05,142 [SINGING] Yes, Lindor shall be mine 948 01:00:05,310 --> 01:00:09,438 I have sworn it 949 01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:14,568 For weal or woe 950 01:00:14,736 --> 01:00:21,742 Yes, Lindor 951 01:00:23,954 --> 01:00:28,541 [SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 952 01:00:40,804 --> 01:00:43,222 There is only one man who can rid the politics... 953 01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:46,559 ...of this state of the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys. 954 01:00:46,727 --> 01:00:50,563 I am speaking of Charles Foster Kane, the fighting liberal... 955 01:00:50,731 --> 01:00:54,191 ...the friend of the workingman, the next governor of this state... 956 01:00:54,359 --> 01:00:56,569 ...who entered upon this campaign... 957 01:00:56,737 --> 01:00:58,571 KANE: - With one purpose only: 958 01:00:58,739 --> 01:01:03,075 To point out and make public the dishonesty... 959 01:01:03,285 --> 01:01:08,080 ...the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine... 960 01:01:08,415 --> 01:01:12,752 ...now in complete control of the government of this state. 961 01:01:13,170 --> 01:01:16,922 I made no campaign promises... 962 01:01:17,424 --> 01:01:22,219 ...because, until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of being elected. 963 01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:23,554 [CROWD LAUGHING] 964 01:01:23,722 --> 01:01:27,308 Now, however, I have something more than a hope. 965 01:01:27,476 --> 01:01:29,185 [CROWD CLAPPING] 966 01:01:29,353 --> 01:01:33,856 Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. 967 01:01:34,024 --> 01:01:35,524 [CROWD LAUGHING] 968 01:01:35,692 --> 01:01:37,902 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 969 01:01:38,070 --> 01:01:39,945 KANE: Every straw vote... 970 01:01:40,113 --> 01:01:44,950 ...every independent poll shows that I will be elected. 971 01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:47,119 Very well. 972 01:01:47,287 --> 01:01:49,955 Now I can afford to make some promises. 973 01:01:50,123 --> 01:01:52,333 [CROWD LAUGHING] 974 01:01:52,793 --> 01:01:54,794 [CROWD CLAPPING] 975 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:03,928 The workingman and the slum child... 976 01:02:04,096 --> 01:02:07,640 ...know they can expect my best efforts in their interests. 977 01:02:07,808 --> 01:02:12,311 The decent, ordinary citizens know that I'll do everything in my power... 978 01:02:12,479 --> 01:02:17,650 ...to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid, and the underfed. 979 01:02:21,571 --> 01:02:25,950 - Mother, is Pop governor yet? - Not yet, Junior. 980 01:02:29,830 --> 01:02:33,165 I'd make my promises now... 981 01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:36,961 ...if I weren't too busy arranging to keep them. 982 01:02:41,508 --> 01:02:44,510 But here's one promise I'll make... 983 01:02:44,678 --> 01:02:48,097 ...and Boss Jim Gettys knows I'll keep it. 984 01:02:48,974 --> 01:02:51,809 My first official act as governor of this state... 985 01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:57,064 ...will be to appoint a special district attorney to arrange for the indictment... 986 01:02:57,315 --> 01:03:02,611 ...prosecution and conviction of Boss Jim W. Gettys. 987 01:03:02,779 --> 01:03:04,363 [CROWD CLAPPING AND CHEERING] 988 01:03:13,165 --> 01:03:15,166 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 989 01:03:29,222 --> 01:03:32,391 If the election were held today, you'd be in by 100,000 votes. 990 01:03:32,559 --> 01:03:34,268 - Gettys isn't even pretending. JUNIOR: Pop. 991 01:03:34,436 --> 01:03:36,562 - Hello, son. - He isn't just scared, he's sick. 992 01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:39,440 It's beginning to dawn on Jim Gettys I mean what I say. 993 01:03:39,608 --> 01:03:42,902 - Did you like your old man's speech? - I could hear every word. 994 01:03:43,069 --> 01:03:44,862 - Hello, Emily. PHOTOGRAPHER: Hold it. 995 01:03:45,238 --> 01:03:47,448 MAN 1: Great speech, Mr. Kane. MAN 2: Wonderful. 996 01:03:47,616 --> 01:03:51,327 - Will you get us a taxi? - A taxi? Why? I thought... 997 01:03:51,703 --> 01:03:54,830 I'm sending Junior home in the car with Oliver. 998 01:03:54,998 --> 01:03:56,499 Good night, Father. 999 01:03:57,918 --> 01:03:59,418 Goodbye, son. 1000 01:04:05,217 --> 01:04:06,634 Emily... 1001 01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:13,724 Why did you send Junior home in the car? What are you doing in a taxi? 1002 01:04:13,892 --> 01:04:15,851 There's a call I want you to make with me. 1003 01:04:16,019 --> 01:04:17,937 - It can wait. - No, it can't. 1004 01:04:18,104 --> 01:04:21,273 - What's this all about, Emily? - It may not be about anything at all. 1005 01:04:21,441 --> 01:04:22,983 I intend to find out. 1006 01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:27,446 - Where are you going? - I'm going to "185 West 74th Street." 1007 01:04:28,865 --> 01:04:31,200 If you wish, you may come with me. 1008 01:04:35,914 --> 01:04:37,623 I'll come with you. 1009 01:04:39,167 --> 01:04:42,086 [DOORBELL RINGS] 1010 01:04:42,629 --> 01:04:46,298 I had no idea you had this flair for melodrama, Emily. 1011 01:04:47,634 --> 01:04:49,843 Come right in, Mr. Kane. 1012 01:05:00,188 --> 01:05:01,814 Charlie. 1013 01:05:08,363 --> 01:05:11,532 He forced me to send your wife that letter. I didn't want to. 1014 01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:14,493 He's been saying the most terrible... 1015 01:05:18,498 --> 01:05:20,207 Mrs. Kane. 1016 01:05:22,210 --> 01:05:24,712 I don't suppose anybody would introduce us. 1017 01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:27,756 I'm Jim Gettys. 1018 01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:29,508 Yes? 1019 01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:36,432 I made Miss Alexander send you the note, Mrs. Kane. 1020 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,684 She didn't want to at first. But she did it. 1021 01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:40,185 Charlie, the things he said to me. 1022 01:05:40,353 --> 01:05:42,646 - He threatened to... KANE: Gettys. 1023 01:05:42,856 --> 01:05:46,650 I won't wait until I'm elected. To start with, I think I'll break your neck. 1024 01:05:46,818 --> 01:05:49,445 Maybe you can do it, and maybe you can't. 1025 01:05:49,613 --> 01:05:54,742 Charles, your breaking this man's neck would scarcely explain this note: 1026 01:05:55,702 --> 01:05:59,496 "Serious consequences for Mr. Kane, for yourself and for your son." 1027 01:05:59,664 --> 01:06:02,583 - He wanted to get her to come here... - What does this note mean? 1028 01:06:02,751 --> 01:06:05,252 I'm Susan Alexander. I know what you think... 1029 01:06:05,420 --> 01:06:08,172 - What does this note mean, Ms. Alexander? GETTYS: She don't know. 1030 01:06:08,340 --> 01:06:11,050 She sent it because I told her it wouldn't be smart not to. 1031 01:06:11,217 --> 01:06:14,511 KANE: Emily, this gentleman... - I'm not a gentleman. 1032 01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:17,556 Your husband is only trying to be funny calling me one. 1033 01:06:17,724 --> 01:06:20,267 I don't even know what a gentleman is. 1034 01:06:21,311 --> 01:06:24,563 You see, my idea of a gentleman... Heh. 1035 01:06:27,734 --> 01:06:31,111 If I owned a paper and didn't like the way somebody was doing things... 1036 01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:33,614 ...some politician, I'd fight him with all I had. 1037 01:06:33,782 --> 01:06:35,532 I wouldn't show him in a convict suit... 1038 01:06:35,700 --> 01:06:37,951 ...so his children could see his picture in the paper. 1039 01:06:38,119 --> 01:06:42,039 - You're a cheap, crooked grafter... - We're talking now about what you are. 1040 01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:45,751 I'm fighting for my life, not just my political life. 1041 01:06:45,919 --> 01:06:48,003 - He said unless you... - That's what I said. 1042 01:06:48,171 --> 01:06:52,091 Here's the chance I'm willing to give him. It's more of a chance than he'd give me. 1043 01:06:52,258 --> 01:06:56,929 Unless he decides by tomorrow that he's so sick he has to go away for a year... 1044 01:06:57,097 --> 01:07:01,266 ...Monday morning, all papers in the state, except his, will carry the story I'll give. 1045 01:07:01,434 --> 01:07:02,810 What story? 1046 01:07:03,603 --> 01:07:06,730 - The story about him and Ms. Alexander. - There isn't any story! 1047 01:07:06,898 --> 01:07:08,107 Shut up. 1048 01:07:08,441 --> 01:07:11,193 We've got evidence that would look bad in the headlines. 1049 01:07:11,361 --> 01:07:13,987 Do you want me to give you the evidence? 1050 01:07:16,116 --> 01:07:18,867 I'd rather he withdrew without having the story published. 1051 01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:22,079 Not that I care about him, but I'd be better off that way. 1052 01:07:24,999 --> 01:07:27,126 So would you, Mrs. Kane. 1053 01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:29,586 What about me? 1054 01:07:31,589 --> 01:07:35,342 He said my name would be dragged through the mud. That everywhere I went... 1055 01:07:35,510 --> 01:07:38,721 There seems to be only one decision you can make, Charles. 1056 01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:41,140 I'd say that it'd been made for you. 1057 01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:44,893 You can't tell me the voters of this state... 1058 01:07:45,145 --> 01:07:47,855 EMILY: I'm not interested in the voters of this state right now. 1059 01:07:48,022 --> 01:07:49,398 I am interested in our son. 1060 01:07:49,566 --> 01:07:52,693 - Charlie, if they publish this story... - They won't. 1061 01:07:53,987 --> 01:07:56,155 Good night, Mr. Gettys. 1062 01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:07,166 Are you coming, Charles? 1063 01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:10,711 No. 1064 01:08:14,132 --> 01:08:15,758 I'm staying here. 1065 01:08:18,887 --> 01:08:21,013 I can fight this all alone. 1066 01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:24,683 If you don't listen to reason, it may be too late. 1067 01:08:24,851 --> 01:08:26,518 KANE: Too late? 1068 01:08:28,146 --> 01:08:29,813 For what? 1069 01:08:30,857 --> 01:08:34,151 For you and this public thief... 1070 01:08:34,486 --> 01:08:36,737 ...to take the love of the people away from me? 1071 01:08:36,905 --> 01:08:39,615 You got other things to think about. Your little boy. 1072 01:08:39,783 --> 01:08:42,201 You don't want him to read about you in the papers. 1073 01:08:42,368 --> 01:08:46,872 There's only one person in the world to decide what I'll do. And that's me. 1074 01:08:49,709 --> 01:08:53,712 You decided what you were going to do, Charles, some time ago. 1075 01:09:00,512 --> 01:09:03,096 You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought. 1076 01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:05,557 - I've got nothing to say to you. - You're licked... 1077 01:09:05,725 --> 01:09:09,061 Get out. If you want to see me, have the warden write me a letter. 1078 01:09:09,312 --> 01:09:13,982 If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. 1079 01:09:14,234 --> 01:09:16,944 Only you're going to need more than one lesson. 1080 01:09:17,779 --> 01:09:21,824 - And you'll get more than one lesson. - Don't worry about me, Gettys. 1081 01:09:23,493 --> 01:09:25,577 Don't worry about me! 1082 01:09:26,454 --> 01:09:29,081 I'm Charles Foster Kane! 1083 01:09:29,624 --> 01:09:33,836 I'm no cheap, crooked politician trying to save himself... 1084 01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:37,005 ...from the consequences of his crimes! 1085 01:09:38,049 --> 01:09:42,094 Gettys! I'm gonna send you to Sing Sing. 1086 01:09:42,262 --> 01:09:46,306 Sing Sing, Gettys. Sing Sing! 1087 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,686 - Have you a car, Mrs. Kane? - Yes, thank you. 1088 01:09:51,229 --> 01:09:53,981 - Good night. - Good night. 1089 01:10:02,282 --> 01:10:04,616 [BOY YELLING INDISTINCTLY] 1090 01:10:04,784 --> 01:10:08,787 BOY: Paper. Read all about it. Extra, extra. 1091 01:10:13,293 --> 01:10:15,377 - Paper? - No, thanks. 1092 01:10:30,268 --> 01:10:33,103 BERNSTEIN: With a million majority already against him... 1093 01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:36,690 ...and the church counties still to be heard from... 1094 01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:39,276 ...I'm afraid we got no choice. 1095 01:10:39,444 --> 01:10:40,819 This one? 1096 01:10:44,282 --> 01:10:46,033 That one. 1097 01:11:09,349 --> 01:11:11,183 Good night again. 1098 01:11:22,362 --> 01:11:26,406 - Is there anything I can...? - No, thanks, Mr. Bernstein. 1099 01:11:27,492 --> 01:11:29,785 You better go home and get some sleep. 1100 01:11:30,870 --> 01:11:32,371 You too. 1101 01:11:33,247 --> 01:11:34,581 Uh-huh. 1102 01:11:34,749 --> 01:11:36,833 Good night, Mr. Kane. 1103 01:12:01,693 --> 01:12:04,569 - Hello, Jedediah. - I'm drunk. 1104 01:12:07,490 --> 01:12:13,537 If you've got drunk to talk to me about... 1105 01:12:15,581 --> 01:12:18,125 ...Ms. Alexander, don't bother. 1106 01:12:19,961 --> 01:12:21,753 I'm not interested. 1107 01:12:25,967 --> 01:12:30,137 I've set back the sacred cause of reform, is that it? 1108 01:12:31,305 --> 01:12:32,723 All right. 1109 01:12:34,475 --> 01:12:37,728 If that's the way they want it, the people have made their choice. 1110 01:12:37,895 --> 01:12:40,689 It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me. 1111 01:12:40,857 --> 01:12:44,359 You talk about the people as though you owned them. 1112 01:12:44,527 --> 01:12:47,320 As though they belong to you. Goodness. 1113 01:12:47,488 --> 01:12:52,325 As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights... 1114 01:12:52,493 --> 01:12:55,704 ...as if you could make them a present of liberty... 1115 01:12:55,872 --> 01:12:58,331 ...as a reward for services rendered. 1116 01:12:58,499 --> 01:13:01,293 - Jed. - You remember the workingman? 1117 01:13:01,461 --> 01:13:04,296 I'll get drunk too, Jedediah... 1118 01:13:05,757 --> 01:13:06,965 ...if it'll do any good. 1119 01:13:07,133 --> 01:13:10,469 It won't do any good. Besides you never get drunk. 1120 01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:13,221 You used to write an awful lot about the workingman... 1121 01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:14,514 Go on home. 1122 01:13:14,682 --> 01:13:17,684 He's turning into something called "organized labor." 1123 01:13:19,145 --> 01:13:22,439 You won't like that one little bit when you find out... 1124 01:13:22,607 --> 01:13:27,694 ...it means your workingman expects something as his right, and not your gift. 1125 01:13:29,781 --> 01:13:34,659 When your precious underprivileged really get together... 1126 01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:36,703 Oh, boy... 1127 01:13:37,497 --> 01:13:40,415 That'll add up to something bigger than your privilege... 1128 01:13:40,583 --> 01:13:43,418 ...then I don't know what you'll do. 1129 01:13:43,586 --> 01:13:48,840 Sail away to a desert island probably and lord it over the monkeys. 1130 01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:52,302 I wouldn't worry about it too much. 1131 01:13:52,678 --> 01:13:57,557 There'll probably be a few of them there to tell me when I do something wrong. 1132 01:13:57,767 --> 01:13:59,851 You may not always be so lucky. 1133 01:14:00,686 --> 01:14:02,062 You're not very drunk. 1134 01:14:02,230 --> 01:14:04,231 Drunk, what do you care? 1135 01:14:04,649 --> 01:14:07,526 You don't care about anything except you. 1136 01:14:08,528 --> 01:14:14,366 You persuade people that you love them so much that they ought to love you back. 1137 01:14:14,700 --> 01:14:17,327 Only you want love on your own terms. 1138 01:14:19,038 --> 01:14:22,499 It's something to be played your way, according to your rules. 1139 01:14:29,132 --> 01:14:32,551 - Let me work on the Chicago paper. - What? 1140 01:14:32,718 --> 01:14:37,556 You said you were looking for someone to do dramatic "crimitism," criticism. 1141 01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:38,890 I am drunk. 1142 01:14:39,058 --> 01:14:41,768 [LAUGHS] 1143 01:14:41,936 --> 01:14:44,271 I want to go to Chicago. 1144 01:14:45,231 --> 01:14:47,190 You're too valuable here. 1145 01:14:49,235 --> 01:14:53,155 - There's nothing left for me to do... - All right, you can go to Chicago. 1146 01:14:53,322 --> 01:14:54,865 Thank you. 1147 01:14:55,616 --> 01:14:58,160 I guess I'd better try to get drunk anyway. 1148 01:14:59,871 --> 01:15:02,289 I warn you, Jedediah, you won't like Chicago. 1149 01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:07,002 The wind comes off the lake, and they've probably never heard of Lobster Newburg. 1150 01:15:07,170 --> 01:15:09,254 Will Saturday after next be all right? 1151 01:15:09,422 --> 01:15:12,048 - Anytime you say. - Thank you. 1152 01:15:17,096 --> 01:15:22,434 A toast to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody knows: 1153 01:15:23,686 --> 01:15:25,145 His own. 1154 01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:32,360 [REPORTERS CLAMORING] 1155 01:15:37,825 --> 01:15:40,035 REPORTER: Mr. Kane, I'm from the Inquirer. 1156 01:15:40,203 --> 01:15:42,037 [LAUGHING] 1157 01:15:42,205 --> 01:15:44,206 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 1158 01:15:49,629 --> 01:15:52,464 - What's that, young man? - Are you through with politics? 1159 01:15:52,632 --> 01:15:56,218 Am I through with politics? I should say vice versa. 1160 01:15:56,719 --> 01:15:58,345 We're going to be an opera star. 1161 01:15:58,512 --> 01:16:00,305 Are you singing at the Metropolitan? 1162 01:16:00,473 --> 01:16:01,806 We certainly are. 1163 01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:04,809 Charlie said if I didn't, he'd build me an opera house. 1164 01:16:04,977 --> 01:16:06,853 That won't be necessary. 1165 01:16:07,021 --> 01:16:09,022 [REPORTERS CLAMORING] 1166 01:16:11,317 --> 01:16:12,651 MAN: No, no, no! 1167 01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:14,444 [SINGING] 1168 01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:16,613 [PEOPLE TALKING OVER EACH OTHER] 1169 01:16:41,639 --> 01:16:43,682 MAN: Places, everybody! 1170 01:16:48,187 --> 01:16:49,688 Places, please! 1171 01:17:00,032 --> 01:17:02,033 [SINGING] 1172 01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:41,531 BERNSTEIN: Mr. Leland is writing it from the dramatic angle? 1173 01:17:41,699 --> 01:17:45,577 MAN 1: We've covered it from the news end. BERNSTEIN: And the social. 1174 01:17:45,995 --> 01:17:48,121 How about the music notice? 1175 01:17:48,289 --> 01:17:50,206 MAN 2: Yes, it's already made up. 1176 01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:53,460 Mr. Mowan wrote a swell review. 1177 01:17:55,129 --> 01:17:57,213 - Enthusiastic? - Yes, sir. 1178 01:17:57,381 --> 01:17:58,923 - Naturally. - Mr. Bernstein. 1179 01:17:59,091 --> 01:18:01,968 BERNSTEIN: Mr. Kane. MAN 2: Mr. Kane. This is a surprise. 1180 01:18:02,136 --> 01:18:03,887 [CHATTERING] 1181 01:18:04,055 --> 01:18:05,972 We've got two spreads of pictures. 1182 01:18:06,140 --> 01:18:07,932 The music notice on the front page? 1183 01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:12,187 But there's still one notice to come. The dramatic. 1184 01:18:12,855 --> 01:18:14,647 The dramatic notice. 1185 01:18:15,566 --> 01:18:20,653 - Mr. Bernstein, that's Mr. Leland, isn't it? - Yes, we're waiting for it. 1186 01:18:23,991 --> 01:18:27,077 - Where is he? - Right in there, Mr. Kane. 1187 01:18:35,086 --> 01:18:36,795 BERNSTEIN: Mr. Kane... 1188 01:18:39,465 --> 01:18:41,466 Mr. Kane... 1189 01:18:51,268 --> 01:18:53,937 Mr. Leland and Mr. Kane... 1190 01:18:55,064 --> 01:18:58,691 ...haven't spoken together for years. 1191 01:19:00,945 --> 01:19:03,988 - You don't suppose... - There's nothing to suppose. 1192 01:19:07,993 --> 01:19:09,828 Excuse me. 1193 01:19:26,345 --> 01:19:27,846 Close the door. 1194 01:19:31,183 --> 01:19:34,102 He ain't been drinking before. 1195 01:19:34,603 --> 01:19:36,938 Never. We would have heard. 1196 01:19:37,106 --> 01:19:39,023 KANE: What does it say there? 1197 01:19:39,483 --> 01:19:42,277 The notice, what's he written? 1198 01:19:43,863 --> 01:19:49,409 "Miss Susan Alexander, a pretty but hopelessly incompetent amateur... 1199 01:19:52,371 --> 01:19:56,207 ...last night opened the new Chicago Opera House... 1200 01:19:56,542 --> 01:19:58,543 ...in a performance of..." 1201 01:20:01,380 --> 01:20:05,467 I still can't pronounce that name. 1202 01:20:08,429 --> 01:20:12,724 "Her singing, happily, is no concern of this department. 1203 01:20:12,892 --> 01:20:17,228 Of her acting, it is absolutely impossible to..." 1204 01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:19,898 Go on. 1205 01:20:21,484 --> 01:20:24,068 - Go on. - That's all there is. 1206 01:20:33,078 --> 01:20:34,954 [LAUGHS] 1207 01:20:37,166 --> 01:20:40,668 "Of her acting it is absolutely impossible to say anything except... 1208 01:20:40,836 --> 01:20:44,422 ...that, in the opinion of this reviewer, it represents a new low." 1209 01:20:44,590 --> 01:20:47,425 - In the opinion of this reviewer. - I didn't see that. 1210 01:20:47,593 --> 01:20:49,886 It isn't here, Mr. Bernstein, I'm dictating it. 1211 01:20:50,054 --> 01:20:52,931 - Mr. Kane, I... - Get me a typewriter. 1212 01:20:54,391 --> 01:20:57,060 I'm going to finish Mr. Leland's notice. 1213 01:21:01,398 --> 01:21:03,399 [TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACKING] 1214 01:21:13,869 --> 01:21:16,079 Hello, Bernstein. 1215 01:21:20,918 --> 01:21:23,336 - Hello. - Hello, Mr. Leland. 1216 01:21:23,504 --> 01:21:25,129 [CHUCKLES] 1217 01:21:27,550 --> 01:21:30,718 Where's my notice, Bernstein? I've got to finish my notice. 1218 01:21:30,886 --> 01:21:34,556 - Mr. Kane is finishing it for you. - Charlie? 1219 01:21:36,892 --> 01:21:38,309 Charlie? 1220 01:21:40,104 --> 01:21:42,438 Charlie out there? 1221 01:21:44,191 --> 01:21:45,858 I guess he's fixing it up. 1222 01:21:47,695 --> 01:21:48,903 [CHUCKLES] 1223 01:21:49,071 --> 01:21:51,864 I knew I'd never get that through. 1224 01:21:52,324 --> 01:21:56,327 Mr. Kane's finishing your review just the way you started it. 1225 01:21:56,745 --> 01:22:00,957 He's writing a bad notice like you wanted it to be. 1226 01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,336 I guess that'll show you. 1227 01:22:29,862 --> 01:22:31,779 Hello, Jedediah. 1228 01:22:35,034 --> 01:22:36,868 Hello, Charlie. 1229 01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:40,538 I didn't know we were speaking. 1230 01:22:41,248 --> 01:22:43,791 Sure we're speaking, Jedediah. 1231 01:22:45,544 --> 01:22:47,712 You're fired. 1232 01:23:00,017 --> 01:23:05,188 THOMPSON: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland, but why did he do it? 1233 01:23:06,065 --> 01:23:09,192 - How could a man write a notice... - You just don't know Charlie. 1234 01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:13,196 He thought that by finishing that notice he'd show me he was an honest man. 1235 01:23:13,364 --> 01:23:15,531 He was always trying to prove something. 1236 01:23:15,699 --> 01:23:18,743 That whole thing about Susie being an opera singer. 1237 01:23:18,911 --> 01:23:21,120 That was trying to prove something. 1238 01:23:21,914 --> 01:23:25,249 You know what the headline was the day before the election? 1239 01:23:25,626 --> 01:23:31,464 "Candidate Kane found in love nest with 'singer."' 1240 01:23:31,632 --> 01:23:33,758 He was going to take the quotes off the singer. 1241 01:23:33,926 --> 01:23:35,009 Hey, nurse! 1242 01:23:35,177 --> 01:23:39,222 Five years ago he wrote from that place down there in the South. 1243 01:23:39,390 --> 01:23:46,396 What's it called, Shangri-la? El Dorado? Sloppy Joe's? What's the name? 1244 01:23:48,107 --> 01:23:52,402 All right, Xanadu, I knew it all the time. 1245 01:23:52,569 --> 01:23:56,656 You caught on, didn't you? I'm not that hard to see through. 1246 01:23:57,074 --> 01:23:59,450 Well, I never even answered his letter. 1247 01:24:00,244 --> 01:24:01,577 Maybe I should have. 1248 01:24:01,745 --> 01:24:05,790 I guess he was pretty lonely down there in that coliseum all those years. 1249 01:24:06,208 --> 01:24:09,252 He hadn't finished it when she left him. He never finished it. 1250 01:24:09,420 --> 01:24:12,630 He never finished anything except my notice. 1251 01:24:12,965 --> 01:24:16,092 - Of course, he built the joint for her. - That must have been love. 1252 01:24:16,260 --> 01:24:17,510 I don't know. 1253 01:24:17,678 --> 01:24:21,973 He was disappointed in the world so he built his own, an absolute monarchy. 1254 01:24:22,641 --> 01:24:25,143 It was something bigger than an opera house anyway. 1255 01:24:25,310 --> 01:24:26,644 - Nurse. - Yes, Mr. Leland. 1256 01:24:26,812 --> 01:24:28,146 I'm coming. 1257 01:24:29,690 --> 01:24:33,151 - There's one thing you can do for me. - Sure. 1258 01:24:33,318 --> 01:24:37,697 Stop at the cigar store on your way out, and get me a couple of good cigars. 1259 01:24:37,865 --> 01:24:40,158 - Be glad to. - Thank you. 1260 01:24:40,617 --> 01:24:42,034 One is enough. 1261 01:24:42,411 --> 01:24:46,664 When I was a young man, there was an impression that nurses were pretty. 1262 01:24:46,832 --> 01:24:48,916 Well, it was no truer then than it is today. 1263 01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:51,127 - I'll take your arm. - All right. 1264 01:24:51,295 --> 01:24:54,005 - You won't forget about those cigars? - I won't. 1265 01:24:54,173 --> 01:24:59,051 Have them wrapped like toothpaste, or they'll stop them at the desk. 1266 01:24:59,219 --> 01:25:02,013 You know that young doctor I was telling you about, well... 1267 01:25:02,181 --> 01:25:05,057 ...he's got an idea he wants to keep me alive. 1268 01:25:05,225 --> 01:25:06,934 [LAUGHS] 1269 01:25:35,339 --> 01:25:39,884 I'd rather you'd just talk. Anything that comes into your mind... 1270 01:25:40,052 --> 01:25:42,261 ...about yourself and Mr. Kane. 1271 01:25:42,471 --> 01:25:47,809 You don't want to hear what comes into my mind about myself and Charlie Kane. 1272 01:25:49,353 --> 01:25:54,148 You know, maybe I shouldn't have sung for Charlie that first time I met him. 1273 01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,736 But I did an awful lot of singing after that. 1274 01:26:00,197 --> 01:26:03,991 I sang for teachers at $100 an hour. 1275 01:26:04,159 --> 01:26:06,661 - The teachers got that, I didn't. - What did you get? 1276 01:26:06,829 --> 01:26:10,289 I didn't get a thing, except music lessons. That's all there was in it. 1277 01:26:10,457 --> 01:26:11,833 He married you, didn't he? 1278 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,378 He didn't mention anything about marriage until after it was over and... 1279 01:26:15,546 --> 01:26:17,755 ...until it got in the papers about us... 1280 01:26:17,923 --> 01:26:22,802 ...and he lost the election, and that Norton woman divorced him. 1281 01:26:23,136 --> 01:26:25,012 He was really interested in my voice. 1282 01:26:25,180 --> 01:26:26,764 Why did he build that opera house? 1283 01:26:26,932 --> 01:26:30,768 I didn't want it. I didn't want a thing. It was his idea. 1284 01:26:32,145 --> 01:26:34,230 Everything was his idea... 1285 01:26:37,192 --> 01:26:39,193 ...except my leaving him. 1286 01:26:39,361 --> 01:26:41,362 [SINGING IN ITALIAN] 1287 01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:48,619 Don't forget. 1288 01:26:48,787 --> 01:26:51,789 Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta. 1289 01:26:51,957 --> 01:26:53,416 Don't get nervous. 1290 01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:56,210 Please. Let's come back. 1291 01:26:57,796 --> 01:27:00,965 Look at me, Mrs. Kane, darling. 1292 01:27:01,133 --> 01:27:03,175 [SINGING] Get the voice out of the throat 1293 01:27:03,343 --> 01:27:05,469 [SUSAN SINGING IN ITALIAN] 1294 01:27:05,637 --> 01:27:10,057 Place the tone right in the mask 1295 01:27:10,559 --> 01:27:12,560 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 1296 01:27:16,273 --> 01:27:17,982 Diaphragm. 1297 01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:24,947 [REPEATING NOTE] 1298 01:27:25,115 --> 01:27:26,741 You're out of pitch. 1299 01:27:26,909 --> 01:27:30,995 [SINGS] 1300 01:27:31,163 --> 01:27:34,248 Some people can sing. Some can't. 1301 01:27:34,416 --> 01:27:36,918 Impossible. Impossible! 1302 01:27:37,085 --> 01:27:40,546 It's not your job to give your opinion of Mrs. Kane's talents. 1303 01:27:41,882 --> 01:27:45,509 You're supposed to train her voice, Signor Matiste. Nothing more. 1304 01:27:46,178 --> 01:27:47,887 Please continue with the lesson. 1305 01:27:48,055 --> 01:27:50,473 - But, Mr. Kane. - Please. 1306 01:27:51,475 --> 01:27:55,269 I'll be the laughingstock of the musical world. People will think... 1307 01:27:55,437 --> 01:27:58,272 You're concerned what people will think? 1308 01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:02,860 Perhaps I can enlighten you a bit. I'm an authority on what people will think. 1309 01:28:03,028 --> 01:28:05,488 Heh. The newspapers for example. 1310 01:28:05,739 --> 01:28:08,407 I run several newspapers between here and San Francisco. 1311 01:28:08,575 --> 01:28:09,992 It's all right, darling. 1312 01:28:10,202 --> 01:28:12,703 Signor Matiste is going to listen to reason. 1313 01:28:13,372 --> 01:28:16,123 - How can I persuade you... - You can't. 1314 01:28:18,627 --> 01:28:20,878 [SPEAKING IN ITALIAN] 1315 01:28:25,258 --> 01:28:27,259 [SINGING] 1316 01:28:42,359 --> 01:28:44,485 It's all right, darling, go ahead. 1317 01:28:56,248 --> 01:28:59,000 I thought you'd see it my way. 1318 01:29:08,468 --> 01:29:09,510 [SINGING] 1319 01:29:09,678 --> 01:29:12,430 No, no, no. 1320 01:29:12,597 --> 01:29:13,931 [ORCHESTRA PLAYING DRAMATIC MUSIC] 1321 01:29:14,099 --> 01:29:15,933 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 1322 01:29:22,065 --> 01:29:24,525 MAN: Places! Places! 1323 01:29:26,445 --> 01:29:28,446 [PEOPLE YELLING INDISTINCTLY] 1324 01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:34,160 Places! Places, everybody! 1325 01:29:43,754 --> 01:29:45,755 [SUSAN SINGING IN ITALIAN] 1326 01:30:59,329 --> 01:31:00,704 WOMAN: I think it's dreadful. 1327 01:31:10,173 --> 01:31:11,715 [WOMAN LAUGHS] 1328 01:31:15,887 --> 01:31:18,639 [MOUTHING WORDS] 1329 01:31:52,883 --> 01:31:54,884 [CROWD APPLAUDING] 1330 01:32:29,419 --> 01:32:31,420 [CROWD STOPS APPLAUDING] 1331 01:32:33,298 --> 01:32:35,299 [CROWD CHATTERING] 1332 01:32:40,222 --> 01:32:45,309 SUSAN: Stop telling me he's your friend. A friend don't write that kind of review. 1333 01:32:45,477 --> 01:32:48,562 All these other papers panning me, I could expect that. 1334 01:32:48,730 --> 01:32:49,772 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 1335 01:32:49,940 --> 01:32:52,524 But for the Inquirerto run a thing like that, spoiling my whole debut. 1336 01:32:52,692 --> 01:32:54,401 - Come in. - I'll get it. 1337 01:32:54,569 --> 01:32:57,363 Friend. Not the kind of friends I know... 1338 01:32:57,656 --> 01:32:59,907 ...but I'm not high class like you. 1339 01:33:00,075 --> 01:33:01,909 And I never went to any swell schools. 1340 01:33:02,077 --> 01:33:03,410 That'll be enough, Susan. 1341 01:33:03,578 --> 01:33:05,162 - From Mr. Leland, sir. - Jed Leland? 1342 01:33:05,330 --> 01:33:08,457 He wanted me to make sure you got this personally. 1343 01:33:08,750 --> 01:33:11,377 Is that something from him? 1344 01:33:12,837 --> 01:33:14,338 Charlie! 1345 01:33:14,839 --> 01:33:18,676 As for you, you ought to have your head examined. 1346 01:33:18,885 --> 01:33:21,387 Sending him a letter telling him he's fired... 1347 01:33:21,554 --> 01:33:23,973 ...with a $25,000 check in it. 1348 01:33:24,140 --> 01:33:27,017 What kind of firing do you call that? 1349 01:33:27,310 --> 01:33:31,563 You did send him a check for $25,000, didn't you? 1350 01:33:32,857 --> 01:33:34,149 Yes. 1351 01:33:36,361 --> 01:33:39,571 I sent him a check for $25,000. 1352 01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:43,659 What's that? 1353 01:33:44,869 --> 01:33:46,328 Declaration of Principles. 1354 01:33:46,663 --> 01:33:48,914 - What? What is it? - Hmm? 1355 01:33:55,171 --> 01:33:59,550 - An antique. - You're awful funny, aren't you? 1356 01:34:00,093 --> 01:34:04,346 I'll tell you one thing you're not going to be funny about, and that's my singing. 1357 01:34:04,514 --> 01:34:08,225 I'm through. I never wanted to do it in the first place. 1358 01:34:08,727 --> 01:34:10,769 You'll continue with your singing, Susan. 1359 01:34:10,937 --> 01:34:13,897 I don't propose to have myself made ridiculous. 1360 01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:17,484 You don't propose to have yourself made ridiculous! 1361 01:34:17,652 --> 01:34:20,904 What about me? I'm the one that has to sing. 1362 01:34:21,072 --> 01:34:24,616 I'm the one that gets the raspberries. Why don't you leave me alone? 1363 01:34:24,784 --> 01:34:26,577 My reasons satisfy me, Susan. 1364 01:34:26,745 --> 01:34:28,912 You seem unable to understand them. 1365 01:34:29,789 --> 01:34:32,041 I will not tell them to you again. 1366 01:34:35,712 --> 01:34:37,921 You'll continue with your singing. 1367 01:34:43,762 --> 01:34:45,763 [SUSAN SINGING] 1368 01:35:26,096 --> 01:35:28,097 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 1369 01:35:32,352 --> 01:35:41,527 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 1370 01:35:42,153 --> 01:35:43,737 [DOOR HANDLE RATTLING] 1371 01:35:43,905 --> 01:35:45,906 [KNOCKING CONTINUES] 1372 01:36:10,348 --> 01:36:12,182 Get Dr. Corey. 1373 01:36:16,604 --> 01:36:18,021 Susan. 1374 01:36:18,565 --> 01:36:22,192 COREY: She'll be perfectly all right in a day or two, Mr. Kane. 1375 01:36:24,195 --> 01:36:28,240 I can't imagine how Mrs. Kane came to make such a foolish mistake. 1376 01:36:28,741 --> 01:36:33,328 The sedative Dr. Wagner gave her was in a somewhat larger bottle. 1377 01:36:33,705 --> 01:36:38,125 The strain of preparing for the new opera has excited and confused her. 1378 01:36:38,293 --> 01:36:40,502 Yes, I'm sure that was it. 1379 01:36:41,296 --> 01:36:44,047 No objections to my staying with her, are there? 1380 01:36:44,215 --> 01:36:48,302 No, not at all. I'd like the nurse to be here too. 1381 01:36:49,095 --> 01:36:51,221 Good night, Mr. Kane. 1382 01:36:58,521 --> 01:37:00,522 [SUSAN BREATHING HEAVILY] 1383 01:37:26,758 --> 01:37:28,383 Charlie. 1384 01:37:31,095 --> 01:37:34,264 I couldn't make you see how I felt, Charlie. 1385 01:37:35,725 --> 01:37:38,477 But I couldn't go through with the singing again. 1386 01:37:40,396 --> 01:37:43,607 You don't know what it means to know that people are... 1387 01:37:45,109 --> 01:37:47,945 That the whole audience doesn't want you. 1388 01:37:51,533 --> 01:37:53,617 That's when you got to fight them. 1389 01:38:02,043 --> 01:38:03,627 All right. 1390 01:38:05,547 --> 01:38:07,965 You won't have to fight them anymore. 1391 01:38:11,261 --> 01:38:12,803 It's their loss. 1392 01:38:29,028 --> 01:38:30,821 KANE: What are you doing? 1393 01:38:35,243 --> 01:38:37,244 Jigsaw puzzles? 1394 01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:40,497 [SIGHS] 1395 01:38:42,375 --> 01:38:44,459 Charlie, what time is it? 1396 01:38:44,961 --> 01:38:48,046 - 11:30. - In New York? 1397 01:38:49,549 --> 01:38:53,802 - Hmm? - I said what time is it in New York? 1398 01:38:54,637 --> 01:38:57,764 - 11:30. - Night? 1399 01:38:58,933 --> 01:39:00,392 KANE: Mm-hm. 1400 01:39:01,352 --> 01:39:03,145 The Bulldog's just gone to press. 1401 01:39:03,313 --> 01:39:06,481 Well, hurray for the Bulldog. 1402 01:39:08,693 --> 01:39:12,070 Gee, 11:30. Shows are just getting out. 1403 01:39:12,238 --> 01:39:14,990 People are going to nightclubs and restaurants. 1404 01:39:15,658 --> 01:39:18,994 Of course, we're different because we live in a palace. 1405 01:39:19,162 --> 01:39:21,705 You always said you wanted to live in a palace. 1406 01:39:21,873 --> 01:39:24,207 A person could go crazy in this dump. 1407 01:39:24,375 --> 01:39:27,419 Nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with. 1408 01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:28,754 Susan. 1409 01:39:28,921 --> 01:39:32,841 49,000 acres of nothing but scenery and statues. 1410 01:39:33,051 --> 01:39:34,468 I'm lonesome. 1411 01:39:34,636 --> 01:39:38,472 Until yesterday, we've had no less than 50 of your friends at any one time. 1412 01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:41,266 I think if you look in the west wing... 1413 01:39:41,434 --> 01:39:44,436 ...you'll find about a dozen vacationists still in residence. 1414 01:39:44,604 --> 01:39:47,189 You make a joke out of everything. 1415 01:39:47,690 --> 01:39:52,235 Charlie, I want to go to New York. I'm tired of being a hostess. 1416 01:39:52,403 --> 01:39:56,239 I want to have fun. Please, Charlie. 1417 01:39:57,950 --> 01:40:00,786 Charlie, please. 1418 01:40:01,746 --> 01:40:04,623 Our home is here, Susan. 1419 01:40:10,129 --> 01:40:12,381 I don't care to visit New York. 1420 01:40:49,293 --> 01:40:51,086 KANE: What are you doing? 1421 01:40:53,172 --> 01:40:57,300 Oh. One thing I can never understand: 1422 01:40:57,468 --> 01:40:59,553 How do you know you haven't done it before? 1423 01:40:59,721 --> 01:41:03,306 It makes a whole lot more sense than collecting statues. 1424 01:41:05,309 --> 01:41:06,893 You may be right. 1425 01:41:07,311 --> 01:41:09,396 I sometimes wonder... 1426 01:41:09,772 --> 01:41:12,149 ...but you get into the habit. 1427 01:41:12,316 --> 01:41:15,152 It's not a habit, I do it because I like it. 1428 01:41:15,653 --> 01:41:17,279 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1429 01:41:17,447 --> 01:41:18,488 SUSAN: Huh? 1430 01:41:18,656 --> 01:41:20,365 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1431 01:41:20,533 --> 01:41:23,577 Invite everybody to spend the night at the Everglades. 1432 01:41:23,828 --> 01:41:28,165 Invite everybody. Order everybody, you mean, and make them sleep in tents. 1433 01:41:28,332 --> 01:41:31,209 Who wants to sleep in tents when they've got their own room... 1434 01:41:31,377 --> 01:41:33,920 ...with a bath, where they know where everything is? 1435 01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:37,466 I thought we might have a picnic tomorrow. 1436 01:41:40,803 --> 01:41:45,140 You never give me anything I really care about. 1437 01:41:53,357 --> 01:41:57,861 [SINGING] It can't be love 1438 01:41:58,029 --> 01:42:02,616 For there is no true love 1439 01:42:02,784 --> 01:42:05,494 I know I've played at the game 1440 01:42:05,661 --> 01:42:08,121 Like a moth in a blue flame 1441 01:42:08,289 --> 01:42:12,209 Lost in the end Just the same 1442 01:42:12,376 --> 01:42:15,045 All these years 1443 01:42:15,213 --> 01:42:20,050 My heart's been floating around In a puddle of tears 1444 01:42:20,218 --> 01:42:24,221 Mm I wonder what it is 1445 01:42:24,555 --> 01:42:28,558 Sure, you give me things, but that don't mean anything to you. 1446 01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:34,022 You're in a tent, darling, you aren't at home. 1447 01:42:34,190 --> 01:42:37,442 I can hear you very well if you speak in a normal tone of voice. 1448 01:42:37,610 --> 01:42:41,446 What's the difference between giving me a bracelet or giving someone $100,000... 1449 01:42:41,614 --> 01:42:44,574 ...for a statue you'll keep crated up and never look at? 1450 01:42:44,742 --> 01:42:47,035 It's just money. It doesn't mean anything. 1451 01:42:47,203 --> 01:42:50,330 You never really gave me anything that you care about. 1452 01:42:50,498 --> 01:42:53,041 - I want you to stop this. - I'm not going to stop it. 1453 01:42:53,209 --> 01:42:56,086 - Right now. - You never gave me anything in your life. 1454 01:42:56,254 --> 01:42:58,588 You just tried to buy me into giving you something. 1455 01:42:58,756 --> 01:43:00,298 Susan! 1456 01:43:02,510 --> 01:43:07,430 - It can't be love - It can't be love 1457 01:43:07,598 --> 01:43:10,433 For there is no true love 1458 01:43:10,601 --> 01:43:12,602 [MUSIC PLAYING AND PEOPLE CHATTERING OUTSIDE] 1459 01:43:19,026 --> 01:43:21,570 Whatever I do, I do because I love you. 1460 01:43:21,737 --> 01:43:23,613 You don't love me. 1461 01:43:23,781 --> 01:43:25,657 You want me to love you. 1462 01:43:25,825 --> 01:43:28,660 Sure. "I'm Charles Foster Kane. 1463 01:43:28,828 --> 01:43:31,371 Whatever you want, just name it and it's yours. 1464 01:43:31,539 --> 01:43:33,748 But you gotta love me." 1465 01:43:34,709 --> 01:43:37,168 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 1466 01:43:38,212 --> 01:43:40,964 Don't tell me you're sorry. 1467 01:43:42,884 --> 01:43:44,634 I'm not sorry. 1468 01:43:45,595 --> 01:43:47,804 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 1469 01:43:56,480 --> 01:43:58,064 Mr. Kane? 1470 01:43:58,482 --> 01:44:01,234 Mrs. Kane would like to see you, sir. 1471 01:44:04,113 --> 01:44:07,282 Marie has been packing her since morning. 1472 01:44:13,372 --> 01:44:17,083 Tell Arnold I'm ready, Marie. Tell him he can get the bags. 1473 01:44:17,627 --> 01:44:18,877 Yes, madame. 1474 01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,173 KANE: Have you gone completely crazy? 1475 01:44:23,341 --> 01:44:26,509 Don't you know that our guests, that everyone will know about this? 1476 01:44:26,677 --> 01:44:28,470 Packed your bag, sent for the car... 1477 01:44:28,638 --> 01:44:31,848 And left you? Of course they'll hear. 1478 01:44:32,850 --> 01:44:35,518 I'm not saying goodbye, except to you. 1479 01:44:35,728 --> 01:44:38,563 But I never imagined people wouldn't know. 1480 01:44:41,025 --> 01:44:42,901 I won't let you go. 1481 01:44:50,242 --> 01:44:51,868 Goodbye, Charlie. 1482 01:44:55,456 --> 01:44:56,873 Susan. 1483 01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:08,677 Please don't go. 1484 01:45:14,308 --> 01:45:16,101 Please, Susan. 1485 01:45:19,313 --> 01:45:22,732 From now on, everything will be exactly the way you want it to be. 1486 01:45:22,900 --> 01:45:24,985 Not the way I think you want it... 1487 01:45:26,654 --> 01:45:28,154 ...but your way. 1488 01:45:30,408 --> 01:45:31,616 Hmm? 1489 01:45:34,662 --> 01:45:35,996 You mustn't go. 1490 01:45:39,250 --> 01:45:41,418 You can't do this to me. 1491 01:45:43,087 --> 01:45:44,754 I see. 1492 01:45:45,673 --> 01:45:48,258 It's you that this is being done to. 1493 01:45:48,551 --> 01:45:50,343 It's not me at all. 1494 01:45:50,594 --> 01:45:52,512 Not what it means to me. 1495 01:45:54,682 --> 01:45:56,850 I can't do this to you? 1496 01:45:58,310 --> 01:46:00,270 Oh, yes, I can. 1497 01:46:19,415 --> 01:46:22,459 In case you haven't heard, I lost all my money and it was plenty. 1498 01:46:22,626 --> 01:46:24,878 The last 10 years have been difficult for many. 1499 01:46:25,046 --> 01:46:27,964 They haven't been tough on me. I just lost all my money. 1500 01:46:28,591 --> 01:46:31,676 - You're going down to Xanadu? - Monday, with boys from the office. 1501 01:46:31,844 --> 01:46:34,512 Mr. Rawlston wants the whole place photographed. 1502 01:46:34,680 --> 01:46:36,181 We run a picture magazine. 1503 01:46:36,348 --> 01:46:39,976 If you're smart, you'll get in touch with Raymond. He's the butler. 1504 01:46:40,144 --> 01:46:42,062 You'll learn a lot from him. 1505 01:46:42,229 --> 01:46:44,689 He knows where all the bodies are buried. 1506 01:46:44,857 --> 01:46:48,068 You know, all the same, I feel kind of sorry for Mr. Kane. 1507 01:46:50,321 --> 01:46:51,988 Don't you think I do? 1508 01:46:56,577 --> 01:46:59,537 What do you know, it's morning already. 1509 01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:06,628 Come around and tell me the story of your life sometime. 1510 01:47:13,636 --> 01:47:15,220 Rosebud? 1511 01:47:17,848 --> 01:47:19,933 I'll tell you about Rosebud. 1512 01:47:20,434 --> 01:47:22,352 How much is it worth to you? 1513 01:47:22,937 --> 01:47:24,729 A thousand dollars? 1514 01:47:30,820 --> 01:47:32,237 THOMPSON: Okay. 1515 01:47:34,031 --> 01:47:36,491 Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Thompson. 1516 01:47:37,451 --> 01:47:40,870 - He acted funny sometimes, you know? - No, I didn't. 1517 01:47:41,122 --> 01:47:43,540 Yes, he did crazy things sometimes. 1518 01:47:43,874 --> 01:47:46,209 I've been working for him 11 years now... 1519 01:47:46,377 --> 01:47:50,213 ...in charge of the whole place, so I ought to know. 1520 01:47:50,548 --> 01:47:51,756 - Rosebud. - Yes. 1521 01:47:51,924 --> 01:47:56,845 Like I tell you, the old man acted kind of funny sometimes... 1522 01:47:57,012 --> 01:48:00,640 ...but I knew how to handle him... - Need a lot of service? 1523 01:48:00,808 --> 01:48:03,768 Yeah. But I knew how to handle him. 1524 01:48:03,936 --> 01:48:05,478 Like that time his wife left. 1525 01:48:05,646 --> 01:48:07,438 [SHRIEKING] 1526 01:49:55,547 --> 01:49:57,548 [PANTING] 1527 01:50:21,365 --> 01:50:22,615 Rosebud. 1528 01:51:30,684 --> 01:51:32,226 I see. 1529 01:51:32,895 --> 01:51:36,272 - And that's what you know about Rosebud? - Yeah. 1530 01:51:36,899 --> 01:51:39,275 I heard him say it that other time too. 1531 01:51:39,943 --> 01:51:41,861 He just said: 1532 01:51:42,237 --> 01:51:43,988 "Rosebud." 1533 01:51:44,156 --> 01:51:47,450 Then he dropped the glass ball and it broke on the floor. 1534 01:51:48,118 --> 01:51:52,330 He didn't say anything after that, and I knew he was dead. 1535 01:51:53,082 --> 01:51:55,750 He said all kinds of things that didn't mean anything. 1536 01:51:55,918 --> 01:51:58,795 - Sentimental fellow, aren't you? - Hmm... 1537 01:51:58,962 --> 01:52:01,589 - Yes and no. - That isn't worth $1000. 1538 01:52:01,757 --> 01:52:04,717 You can keep on asking questions if you want to. 1539 01:52:04,968 --> 01:52:06,636 We're leaving tonight... 1540 01:52:07,429 --> 01:52:09,305 ...when we're through taking pictures. 1541 01:52:09,473 --> 01:52:11,349 Allow yourself plenty of time. 1542 01:52:11,517 --> 01:52:15,353 The train stops at the junction on signal, but they don't like to wait. 1543 01:52:16,397 --> 01:52:19,357 I can remember when they'd wait all day... 1544 01:52:19,691 --> 01:52:20,983 ...if Mr. Kane said so. 1545 01:52:21,151 --> 01:52:22,652 [CHATTERING] 1546 01:52:22,820 --> 01:52:25,405 THOMPSON: Better get going. 1547 01:52:26,782 --> 01:52:28,199 MAN 1: Take a picture of that. 1548 01:52:28,409 --> 01:52:32,328 MAN 2: Can we come down? MAN 1: Yes, hurry up. We're leaving. 1549 01:52:34,540 --> 01:52:38,000 How much do you think all this is worth, Mr. Thompson? 1550 01:52:38,210 --> 01:52:39,752 Millions. 1551 01:52:41,213 --> 01:52:42,338 If anybody wants it. 1552 01:52:42,506 --> 01:52:45,133 Well, at least he brought all this stuff to America. 1553 01:52:45,300 --> 01:52:46,968 - What's that? - Another Venus. 1554 01:52:47,136 --> 01:52:48,344 25,000 bucks. 1555 01:52:48,512 --> 01:52:51,013 A lot of money to pay for a dame without a head. 1556 01:52:51,181 --> 01:52:54,100 - The banks are out of luck? - Oh, I don't know. 1557 01:52:54,852 --> 01:52:57,520 - They'll clear all right. - He never threw anything away. 1558 01:52:57,688 --> 01:53:02,817 "Welcome home, Mr. Kane, from 467 employees of the New York Inquirer." 1559 01:53:02,985 --> 01:53:08,239 "One stove from the estate of Mary Kane, Little Salem, Colorado. Value: $2." 1560 01:53:08,407 --> 01:53:10,825 We're supposed to get everything, junk as well as art. 1561 01:53:10,993 --> 01:53:12,577 He sure liked to collect things. 1562 01:53:12,744 --> 01:53:14,078 Anything and everything. 1563 01:53:14,246 --> 01:53:15,872 A regular crow, eh? 1564 01:53:16,039 --> 01:53:18,666 - Hey, look, a jigsaw puzzle. - We got a lot of those. 1565 01:53:18,834 --> 01:53:21,836 A Burmese temple and three Spanish ceilings down the hall. 1566 01:53:22,337 --> 01:53:23,713 Part of a Scotch castle... 1567 01:53:23,881 --> 01:53:25,715 ...that needs to be unwrapped. 1568 01:53:26,049 --> 01:53:27,467 Put all this stuff together: 1569 01:53:27,634 --> 01:53:30,678 The palaces and the paintings, and the toys and everything. 1570 01:53:30,846 --> 01:53:32,805 What would it spell? 1571 01:53:34,224 --> 01:53:37,018 - Charles Foster Kane? - Or Rosebud. 1572 01:53:37,269 --> 01:53:40,146 - How about it, Jerry? - What's Rosebud? 1573 01:53:40,314 --> 01:53:42,857 That's what he said when he died. 1574 01:53:43,525 --> 01:53:45,610 Did you ever find out what it means? 1575 01:53:45,777 --> 01:53:47,904 - No, I didn't. - What did you find out about him? 1576 01:53:48,071 --> 01:53:49,572 Not much, really. 1577 01:53:52,659 --> 01:53:54,368 We'd better get started. 1578 01:53:56,288 --> 01:53:58,706 What have you been doing all this time? 1579 01:53:59,750 --> 01:54:01,292 THOMPSON: Playing with a jigsaw puzzle. 1580 01:54:01,460 --> 01:54:05,129 If you'd discovered what Rosebud meant, I bet it would've explained everything. 1581 01:54:05,297 --> 01:54:06,839 No, I don't think so. 1582 01:54:07,466 --> 01:54:08,841 No. 1583 01:54:09,009 --> 01:54:12,553 He was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. 1584 01:54:12,721 --> 01:54:16,307 Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost. 1585 01:54:16,475 --> 01:54:18,768 It wouldn't have explained anything. 1586 01:54:19,603 --> 01:54:22,730 I don't think any word can explain a man's life. 1587 01:54:23,690 --> 01:54:27,902 No. I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. 1588 01:54:29,071 --> 01:54:30,780 A missing piece. 1589 01:54:34,117 --> 01:54:35,743 Well... 1590 01:54:36,620 --> 01:54:38,788 ...come on, everybody... 1591 01:54:40,624 --> 01:54:42,875 ...we'll miss the train. 1592 01:55:47,566 --> 01:55:49,817 Throw that junk in. 1593 01:57:22,828 --> 01:57:27,581 Maybe I was what you nowadays call a stooge. Huh? 1594 01:57:27,749 --> 01:57:30,042 Everything was his idea... 1595 01:57:31,837 --> 01:57:33,671 ...except my leaving him. 1596 01:57:34,548 --> 01:57:36,841 I've got his trunk all packed. 1597 01:57:37,843 --> 01:57:40,219 I've had it packed for a week now. 1598 01:57:40,387 --> 01:57:44,056 Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood. 1599 01:57:45,976 --> 01:57:48,477 You're gonna need more than one lesson. 1600 01:57:49,354 --> 01:57:51,897 And you'll get more than one lesson. 1601 01:57:52,691 --> 01:57:54,692 [MUTTERS] 1602 01:57:56,653 --> 01:57:58,863 Who's a busy man, me? 1603 01:57:59,030 --> 01:58:02,032 I'm chairman of the board. I got nothing but time. 1604 01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:03,826 What do you want to know? 1605 01:58:03,994 --> 01:58:08,831 We thought, if we could find out what he meant by his last words as he was dying... 1606 01:58:09,166 --> 01:58:12,001 - Sentimental fellow, aren't you? - Hmm... 1607 01:58:12,627 --> 01:58:13,794 Yes and no. 1608 01:58:13,962 --> 01:58:16,881 "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." 1609 01:58:17,132 --> 01:58:21,051 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. 1610 01:59:19,277 --> 01:59:21,278 [English - US - SDH]