citizen kane english 17519

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100:01:58,230 --> 00:01:59,925Rosebud.

200:02:38,070 --> 00:02:40,231News on the March.

300:02:59,759 --> 00:03:01,818Legendary was the Xanadu...

400:03:01,894 --> 00:03:05,489...where Kubla Khan decreedhis stately pleasure dome.

500:03:05,564 --> 00:03:09,056Today almost as legendaryas Florida's Xanadu...

600:03:09,168 --> 00:03:11,500

...the world's largestprivate pleasure ground.

700:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,539Here on the deserts of the Gulf Coast,a private mountain...

800:03:17,610 --> 00:03:19,601...was commissioned and successfully built.

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00:03:19,678 --> 00:03:23,239One hundred thousand trees,twenty thousand tons of marble...

1000:03:23,315 --> 00:03:25,909...are the ingredientsof Xanadu's mountain.

1100:03:26,986 --> 00:03:29,420Contents of Xanadu's palace:

1200:03:29,488 --> 00:03:33,652Paintings, pictures, statues,various stones of other palaces.

1300:03:34,059 --> 00:03:35,924A collection of everything.

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00:03:35,995 --> 00:03:39,260So big it can neverbe catalogued or appraised.

1500:03:39,331 --> 00:03:43,199Enough for 10 museums,the loot of the world.

1600:03:46,772 --> 00:03:48,740Xanadu's livestock...

1700:03:49,809 --> 00:03:55,304...the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea,the beast of the field and jungle...

1800:03:55,614 --> 00:03:59,880...two of each,the biggest private zoo since Noah.

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00:04:00,553 --> 00:04:02,384Like the Pharaohs...

2000:04:02,555 --> 00:04:06,514...Xanadu's landlord leaves many stonesto mark his grave.

2100:04:08,060 --> 00:04:09,584Since the Pyramids...

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00:04:09,829 --> 00:04:12,525...Xanadu is the costliest monument...

2300:04:12,598 --> 00:04:15,032...a man has built to himself.

2400:04:28,113 --> 00:04:30,741Here in Xanadu last week...

2500:04:31,116 --> 00:04:33,983

...Xanadu's landlord was laid to rest.

2600:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,050A potent figure of our century...

2700:04:37,156 --> 00:04:39,317...America's Kubla Khan:


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2800:04:39,792 --> 00:04:41,623Charles Foster Kane.

2900:05:09,088 --> 00:05:14,116Its humble beginnings,in this ramshackle building, a dying daily.

3000:05:14,226 --> 00:05:16,820Kane's empire, in its glory...

3100:05:16,996 --> 00:05:20,955...held dominion over 37 newspapers,two syndicates...

3200:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,728...a radio network,an empire upon an empire.

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00:05:26,071 --> 00:05:29,939The first of grocery stores, paper mills...

3400:05:30,075 --> 00:05:35,741...apartment buildings,factories, forests, ocean liners.

3500:05:35,814 --> 00:05:39,181An empire through which for 50 years...

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00:05:39,251 --> 00:05:41,685...flowed in an unending stream...

3700:05:41,954 --> 00:05:45,185...the wealth of the Earth'sthird richest gold mine.

3800:05:46,558 --> 00:05:49,755Famed in American legendis the origin of the Kane fortune.

3900:05:49,828 --> 00:05:55,425How, to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane,by a defaulting boarder, in 1868...

4000:05:55,501 --> 00:05:59,369...was left the supposedly worthless deedto an abandoned mineshaft:


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4100:05:59,438 --> 00:06:02,566The Colorado Lode.

4200:06:02,641 --> 00:06:06,805Fifty-seven years later,before a congressional investigation...

4300:06:06,879 --> 00:06:10,337... Walter P. Thatcher,grand old man of Wall Street...

4400:06:10,416 --> 00:06:14,147...for years chief targetof Kane papers' attacks on trusts...

4500:06:14,219 --> 00:06:16,619...recalls a journey he made as a youth.

46

00:06:16,689 --> 00:06:20,125My firm had been appointed trusteeby Mrs.Kane...

4700:06:20,192 --> 00:06:22,524...for a large fortune she recently acquired.

4800:06:22,594 --> 00:06:26,690It was her wish that I take chargeof this boy, Charles Foster Kane.

4900:06:26,765 --> 00:06:31,498Chief, is it not, that on this occasion,Charles Foster Kane...

5000:06:31,603 --> 00:06:36,438...personally attacked you after striking youin the stomach with a sled?

5100:06:36,976 --> 00:06:39,911I shall read to the committee

a prepared statement...

5200:06:39,979 --> 00:06:45,440...which I have brought with me,and then refuse to answer questions.

5300:06:45,918 --> 00:06:49,285Mr.Charles Foster Kane,


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6700:07:49,248 --> 00:07:51,842Was hated by as many more.

6800:07:52,184 --> 00:07:55,745For 40 years appeared in Kane newsprint...

6900:07:55,988 --> 00:08:00,322...no public issueon which Kane papers took no stand.

7000:08:00,726 --> 00:08:06,096No public man whom Kane himselfdid not support or denounce.

7100:08:06,165 --> 00:08:10,192Often support, then denounce.

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00:08:18,510 --> 00:08:21,911Twice married, twice divorced.

7300:08:22,247 --> 00:08:24,545First to a president's niece...

7400:08:24,616 --> 00:08:27,710...Emily Norton, who left him in 1916.

7500:08:28,287 --> 00:08:31,848

Died 1918 in a motor accidentwith their son.

7600:08:34,326 --> 00:08:36,658Sixteen years after his first marriage...

7700:08:36,728 --> 00:08:39,060...two weeks after his first divorce...

7800:08:39,264 --> 00:08:41,425

...Kane married Susan Alexander...

7900:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,765...singer, at the Town Hallin Trenton, New Jersey.

8000:08:45,571 --> 00:08:50,838For wife two,


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one-time opera-singing Susan Alexander...

8100:08:51,043 --> 00:08:54,308...Kane builtChicago's Municipal Opera House.

8200:08:54,413 --> 00:08:56,779Cost: $3 million.

8300:08:56,915 --> 00:09:03,047Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane,half-finished before she divorced him...

8400:09:03,122 --> 00:09:05,113...the still unfinished...

8500:09:05,324 --> 00:09:06,723...Xanadu.

8600:09:06,792 --> 00:09:09,989Cost: No man can say.

8700:09:13,332 --> 00:09:16,631Kane, molder of mass opinionthough he was...

8800:09:16,835 --> 00:09:19,497...in all his lifewas never granted elective office...

8900:09:19,571 --> 00:09:21,266...by the voters of his country.

9000:09:21,340 --> 00:09:24,104But Kane papers were once strong indeed...

9100:09:24,243 --> 00:09:26,734...and once the prize seemed almost his.

9200:09:27,012 --> 00:09:30,470In 1916, as independent candidatefor governor...

9300:09:30,549 --> 00:09:32,983...the best elements of the statebehind him...


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9400:09:33,051 --> 00:09:37,920...the White House seemingly the nexteasy step in a lightning political career...

9500:09:37,990 --> 00:09:41,858...then suddenly, less than one weekbefore election...

9600:09:42,427 --> 00:09:43,894...defeat.

9700:09:43,962 --> 00:09:46,157Shameful, ignominious.

9800:09:46,865 --> 00:09:50,392Defeat that set back for 20 yearsthe cause of reform in the U.S...

99

00:09:50,469 --> 00:09:54,235...forever cancelled political chancesfor Charles Foster Kane.

10000:09:57,342 --> 00:10:00,368Then, in the first yearof the Great Depression...

10100:10:00,979 --> 00:10:03,140...a Kane paper closes.

10200:10:03,282 --> 00:10:06,979For Kane, in four short years, collapse.

10300:10:07,386 --> 00:10:12,585Eleven Kane papers merged,more sold, scrapped.

10400:10:22,234 --> 00:10:23,326Is that correct?

10500:10:23,402 --> 00:10:25,734Don't believe everything you hearon the radio.

10600:10:25,804 --> 00:10:29,740- Read the Inquirer.- How were business conditions in Europe?


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10700:10:29,808 --> 00:10:33,744How did I find business conditionsin Europe, Mr.Bones?

10800:10:33,879 --> 00:10:35,574With great difficulty.

10900:10:38,116 --> 00:10:39,777Are you glad to be back?

11000:10:39,851 --> 00:10:42,376I'm always glad to be back.I'm an American.

11100:10:43,288 --> 00:10:45,813Always been an American. Anything else?

11200:10:45,891 --> 00:10:48,985

When I was a reporter,we asked them quicker than that.

11300:10:49,061 --> 00:10:51,586What do you thinkof the chances for war in Europe?

11400:10:51,663 --> 00:10:55,963I talked with the responsible leadersof England, France, Germany and Italy.

11500:10:56,134 --> 00:10:58,568They're too intelligentto embark on a project...

11600:10:58,637 --> 00:11:01,128...that would mean the end of civilization.

11700:11:01,306 --> 00:11:04,798You can take my word for it,there will be no war.

11800:11:09,214 --> 00:11:11,842Kane helped to change the world...

11900:11:11,984 --> 00:11:14,646...but Kane's world now is history...

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00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,156...and the great yellow journalist himselflived to be history...

12100:11:18,223 --> 00:11:20,555...outlived his power to make it.

12200:11:21,426 --> 00:11:25,453Alone in his never-finished,already decaying pleasure palace...

12300:11:25,697 --> 00:11:29,098...aloof, seldom visited,never photographed...

12400:11:29,401 --> 00:11:33,394...an emperor of newsprintcontinued to direct his failing empire.

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00:11:34,006 --> 00:11:36,804Vainly attempted to sway, as he once did...

12600:11:37,175 --> 00:11:40,576...the destinies of a nationthat had ceased to listen to him...

12700:11:40,646 --> 00:11:42,409...ceased to trust him.

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00:11:44,416 --> 00:11:48,477Then last week, as it must to all men...

12900:11:49,421 --> 00:11:52,015...death came to Charles Foster Kane.

13000:11:52,958 --> 00:11:54,823News on the March.

13100:11:59,998 --> 00:12:01,226

That's it.

13200:12:01,933 --> 00:12:04,868Stand by.I'll tell you if we want to run it again.

13300:12:04,936 --> 00:12:07,598- How about it, Mr.Rawlston?


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- How do you like it, boys?

13400:12:07,673 --> 00:12:11,575- Seventy years in a man's life.- That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel.

13500:12:11,643 --> 00:12:14,111It's a good short,but what it needs is an angle.

13600:12:14,179 --> 00:12:17,478All we saw on that screenwas that Charles Foster Kane is dead.

13700:12:17,549 --> 00:12:19,642I know that. I read the papers.

13800:12:19,718 --> 00:12:22,209It isn't enough to tell us what a man did...

13900:12:22,521 --> 00:12:25,684...you've got to tell us who he was.

14000:12:25,757 --> 00:12:29,056Wait a minute.What were Kane's last words?

14100:12:29,127 --> 00:12:31,095Do you remember, boys?

14200:12:31,163 --> 00:12:33,631What were the last wordshe said on Earth?

14300:12:33,699 --> 00:12:35,792Maybe he told us about himselfon his deathbed.

14400:12:35,867 --> 00:12:38,961

- Maybe he didn't.- All we saw was a big American.

14500:12:39,037 --> 00:12:42,063How did he differ from Ford,Hearst or John Doe?

14600:12:42,541 --> 00:12:44,771


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I tell you, a man's dying words--

14700:12:44,876 --> 00:12:46,810What were they?You don't read the papers.

14800:12:46,878 --> 00:12:49,403When Charles Foster Kane died,he said one word:

14900:12:49,481 --> 00:12:50,470"Rosebud."

15000:12:50,549 --> 00:12:52,312That's all he said? Tough guy.

15100:12:52,384 --> 00:12:54,682Yes, "Rosebud." Just that one word.

15200:12:55,020 --> 00:12:56,715- But who is she?- What was it?

15300:12:56,788 --> 00:12:58,949Here's a manwho could've been president...

15400:12:59,024 --> 00:13:01,322...who was as loved,

hated and talked about...

15500:13:01,393 --> 00:13:03,953...as any man in our time,but when he dies...

15600:13:04,029 --> 00:13:06,293...something is on his mind called Rosebud.

15700:13:06,365 --> 00:13:08,833

- What does that mean?- A racehorse he bet on once.

15800:13:08,900 --> 00:13:11,266- That didn't come in.- But what was the race?

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Rosebud.

16000:13:12,571 --> 00:13:13,401- Thompson.- Yes.

16100:13:13,472 --> 00:13:15,406Hold this up a week, two if you must.

16200:13:15,474 --> 00:13:17,271Don't you think right after he's dead--

16300:13:17,342 --> 00:13:20,470Find out about Rosebud. Get in touchwith anybody who knew him...

16400:13:20,545 --> 00:13:22,035...or knew him well.

16500:13:22,381 --> 00:13:24,008That manager of his....

16600:13:24,082 --> 00:13:26,573Bernstein. His second wife.She's still living.

16700:13:26,651 --> 00:13:27,913Susan Alexander Kane.

16800:13:27,986 --> 00:13:30,853- She runs a nightclub in Atlantic City.- That's right.

16900:13:30,922 --> 00:13:34,358See them all. Get in touch with everybodythat ever worked for him...

17000:13:34,426 --> 00:13:37,327...whoever loved him,

whoever hated his guts.

17100:13:37,662 --> 00:13:40,654I don't mean go throughthe city directory of course.

17200:13:40,732 --> 00:13:42,324I'll get on it right away.


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17300:13:42,401 --> 00:13:45,131Good. Rosebud, dead or alive.

17400:13:45,937 --> 00:13:48,531It will probably turn out to bea very simple thing.

17500:14:27,979 --> 00:14:29,503Miss Alexander.

17600:14:30,715 --> 00:14:32,945This is Mr.Thompson, Miss Alexander.

17700:14:33,118 --> 00:14:35,416I want another drink, John.

17800:14:38,356 --> 00:14:41,291

Right away.Will you have something, Mr.Thompson?

17900:14:41,359 --> 00:14:44,886- I'll have a highball, please.- Who told you you could sit down?

18000:14:46,765 --> 00:14:48,699I thought maybe we could have a talk.

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00:14:48,767 --> 00:14:50,234Think again.

18200:14:51,503 --> 00:14:53,801Can't you people leave me alone?

18300:14:53,905 --> 00:14:56,135I'm minding my own business,you mind yours.

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00:14:56,208 --> 00:14:59,143If I could just have a talk with you,Miss Alexander. I'd--

18500:14:59,211 --> 00:15:00,735Get out of here.

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Get out!

18700:15:05,150 --> 00:15:06,640- Sorry.- Get out.

18800:15:06,952 --> 00:15:09,420- Maybe some other time.- Get out.

18900:15:20,432 --> 00:15:21,558Gino.

19000:15:23,468 --> 00:15:25,197Get her another highball.

19100:15:25,670 --> 00:15:28,230She just won't talk to nobody,Mr.Thompson.

19200:15:28,306 --> 00:15:29,398Okay.

19300:15:31,510 --> 00:15:34,206- Another double?- Yeah.

19400:15:35,180 --> 00:15:36,943Hello, I want New York City.

19500:15:37,015 --> 00:15:41,509Courtland 79970.This is Atlantic City 46827. All right.

19600:15:44,656 --> 00:15:46,180She's....

19700:15:46,925 --> 00:15:48,517She'll snap out of it.

19800:15:48,693 --> 00:15:51,992Why, until he died, she'd just as soontalk about Mr.Kane as any--

19900:15:52,063 --> 00:15:53,462- Hello.- Sooner.


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20000:15:53,598 --> 00:15:56,192This is Thompson. Let me talk to the chief.

20100:15:58,003 --> 00:15:59,994Mr.Rawlston? She won't talk.

20200:16:00,238 --> 00:16:03,105The second Mrs.Kane.About Rosebud or anything else.

20300:16:03,174 --> 00:16:04,937I'm calling from Atlantic City.

20400:16:05,010 --> 00:16:08,639Tomorrow I'll go to Philadelphia,to Thatcher Library, to see his diary.

205

00:16:08,713 --> 00:16:10,078They're expecting me.

20600:16:10,148 --> 00:16:13,675Then I've a meeting with hisgeneral manager in New York. Bernstein.

20700:16:13,785 --> 00:16:15,252Then I'm coming back here.

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00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,289Yeah, I'll see everybody that's still alive.Goodbye.

20900:16:20,258 --> 00:16:21,247- Hey....- John.

21000:16:21,326 --> 00:16:23,157You just might be able to help me.

21100:16:23,228 --> 00:16:26,925When she used to talk about Mr.Kane,did she ever mention Rosebud?

21200:16:27,499 --> 00:16:28,830"Rosebud"?

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00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,225Thank you, Mr.Thompson, thanks.

21400:16:31,736 --> 00:16:35,729As a matter of fact, just the other day,when the papers were full of it...

21500:16:37,208 --> 00:16:39,335...I asked her.

21600:16:39,878 --> 00:16:42,005She never heard of Rosebud.

21700:16:54,192 --> 00:16:58,754The directors of the Thatcher MemorialLibrary have asked me to remind you...

21800:16:58,930 --> 00:17:01,592...about the conditions

under which you may...

21900:17:01,666 --> 00:17:04,829...inspect certain portionsof Mr.Thatcher's unpublished memoirs.

22000:17:04,903 --> 00:17:07,531- I remember them.- Yes, Jennings, I'll bring him in.

221

00:17:07,606 --> 00:17:10,166- All I want is an hour--- Under no circumstances...

22200:17:10,241 --> 00:17:14,007...are direct quotes from his manuscriptto be used by you. You may follow me.

22300:17:14,079 --> 00:17:16,274That's all right. I'm just looking for--

22400:17:29,027 --> 00:17:30,654Jennings.

22500:17:35,667 --> 00:17:37,157Thank you, Jennings.

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You will be required to leave this roomat 4:30 promptly.

22700:17:41,339 --> 00:17:43,899You will confine yourself,it is our understanding...

22800:17:43,975 --> 00:17:47,467...to the chapters in Mr.Thatcher'smanuscript regarding Mr.Kane.

22900:17:47,545 --> 00:17:49,445That's all I'm interested in.

23000:17:50,348 --> 00:17:51,747Thank you.

23100:17:53,051 --> 00:17:55,986Pages 83 to 142.

23200:18:34,426 --> 00:18:36,189Come on, boys.

23300:18:36,361 --> 00:18:37,692Be careful, Charles.

23400:18:37,862 --> 00:18:38,692Mrs.Kane.

23500:18:38,763 --> 00:18:40,958Pull your muffler around your neck,Charles.

23600:18:41,032 --> 00:18:43,296Mrs.Kane,I think we'll have to tell him now.

23700:18:43,368 --> 00:18:46,860Yes, I'll sign those papers now,

Mr.Thatcher.

23800:18:47,505 --> 00:18:50,338You people seem to forgetthat I'm the boy's father.

23900:18:50,408 --> 00:18:53,343It's going to be done


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exactly the way I've told Mr.Thatcher.

24000:18:53,411 --> 00:18:57,142There's nothing wrong with Colorado.I don't see why we can't raise our son...

24100:18:57,215 --> 00:18:59,012...just 'cause we came into money.

24200:18:59,084 --> 00:19:02,053If I want to, I can go to court.A father has a right to.

24300:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,419A boarder that beats his billand leaves worthless stock behind....

24400:19:05,490 --> 00:19:08,425That property is as much my property

as anybody's...

24500:19:08,493 --> 00:19:11,428...now that it's valuable.And if Fred Graves had any idea...

24600:19:11,496 --> 00:19:15,091...this would happen, he'd have made outthe certificates in both our names.

247

00:19:15,166 --> 00:19:18,624- But they're made out to Mrs.Kane.- He owed the money to both of us.

24800:19:18,703 --> 00:19:23,538- "The bank's decision in all matters--"- I don't hold with giving Charles to a bank--

24900:19:23,608 --> 00:19:25,872- Stop this nonsense.- We're a bit uneducated--

25000:19:25,944 --> 00:19:28,071"The bank's decisionconcerning his education...

25100:19:28,146 --> 00:19:30,637"...his places of residence, is to be final."


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25200:19:30,715 --> 00:19:34,276- The idea of a bank being the guardian--- Stop this nonsense, Jim.

25300:19:34,352 --> 00:19:37,253"We will assume full managementof the Colorado Lode"...

25400:19:37,322 --> 00:19:39,984...which I repeat, Mrs.Kane,you are the sole owner.

25500:19:40,058 --> 00:19:42,219- Where do I sign, Mr.Thatcher?- Right here.

25600:19:42,293 --> 00:19:44,727Mary, I'm asking you for the last time.

25700:19:45,296 --> 00:19:47,992You'd think I hadn't beena good husband or father--

25800:19:48,066 --> 00:19:49,624The sum of $50,000 a year...

25900:19:49,701 --> 00:19:52,898...is to be paid to youand Mr.Kane as long as you both live...

26000:19:52,971 --> 00:19:55,098...and thereafter to the survivor.

26100:19:55,707 --> 00:19:58,608- Let's hope it's all for the best.- It is.

26200:20:03,748 --> 00:20:07,081Why I can't raise my own boy

is more than I can understand.

26300:20:07,152 --> 00:20:08,983Go on, Mr.Thatcher.

26400:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,248Everything else, the principal,as well as all monies earned...


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26500:20:12,323 --> 00:20:16,384...is to be administered by the bank in trustfor your son, Charles Foster Kane...

26600:20:16,461 --> 00:20:19,225...until he reaches his 25th birthday,at which time...

26700:20:19,297 --> 00:20:21,561...he is to come into complete possession.

26800:20:21,633 --> 00:20:22,930Charles!

26900:20:25,036 --> 00:20:26,594Go on, Mr.Thatcher.

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00:20:27,739 --> 00:20:31,368It's almost 5:00.Don't you think I'd better meet the boy?

27100:20:32,210 --> 00:20:34,144I've got his trunk all packed.

27200:20:35,313 --> 00:20:37,474I've had it packed for a week now.

273

00:20:40,151 --> 00:20:42,517I've arranged for a tutorto meet us in Chicago.

27400:20:42,587 --> 00:20:44,919I'd have brought him here with me, but....

27500:20:45,657 --> 00:20:47,386- Charles.- Look, Mom.

27600:20:47,559 --> 00:20:48,992You'd better come inside.

27700:20:49,060 --> 00:20:52,029- That's quite a snowman.- I took the pipe out of his mouth.

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00:20:52,096 --> 00:20:53,620Did you make it yourself?

27900:20:53,698 --> 00:20:56,258Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers.

28000:20:56,568 --> 00:20:58,593This is Mr.Thatcher, Charles.

28100:20:59,003 --> 00:21:01,096- Hello.- How do you do, Charles?

28200:21:01,172 --> 00:21:02,730He comes from the East.

28300:21:02,807 --> 00:21:04,297- Pa.- Hello, Charlie.

28400:21:04,375 --> 00:21:05,603Charles.

28500:21:06,377 --> 00:21:07,742Yes, Mommy.

28600:21:09,314 --> 00:21:12,374Mr.Thatcher is going to take youon a trip with him tonight.

28700:21:12,450 --> 00:21:14,179You'll be leaving on number 10.

28800:21:14,252 --> 00:21:16,447That's the train with all the lights on it.

28900:21:16,521 --> 00:21:17,545You going, Mom?

29000:21:17,622 --> 00:21:20,853No. Your mother won't be goingright away, but she'll....

29100:21:21,559 --> 00:21:23,288Where am I going?

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from the firm...

31800:22:54,953 --> 00:22:58,514...of Thatcher & Company,as well as acquiring the full responsibility...

31900:22:58,589 --> 00:23:01,023...for the world's sixth largestprivate fortune.

32000:23:01,092 --> 00:23:04,186- Got that?- "The world's sixth largest private fortune."

32100:23:04,329 --> 00:23:08,425I don't think you realize the full importanceof the position you are to occupy.

32200:23:08,499 --> 00:23:10,729

I am therefore enclosingfor your consideration...

32300:23:10,802 --> 00:23:13,532...a list of your holdings,extensively cross-indexed.

32400:23:13,604 --> 00:23:15,799- "Dear Mr.Thatcher."- It's from Mr.Kane.

32500:23:15,873 --> 00:23:18,273- Go on.- "Sorry, I'm not interested in gold mines...

32600:23:18,343 --> 00:23:20,402"...oil wells, shipping or real estate."

32700:23:20,578 --> 00:23:22,705Not interested?

32800:23:22,847 --> 00:23:26,283"One item on your list intrigues me:The New York Inquirer.

32900:23:26,351 --> 00:23:29,252"A little newspaper we acquiredin a foreclosure proceeding.


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33000:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,720"Don't sell it.I am coming back to take charge.

33100:23:31,789 --> 00:23:34,257"I think it would be funto run a newspaper.

33200:23:34,325 --> 00:23:38,455"I think it would be funto run a newspaper."

33300:23:46,270 --> 00:23:48,431"Traction Trust exposed."

33400:23:48,506 --> 00:23:51,168"Traction Trust bleeds public white."

335

00:23:51,242 --> 00:23:54,575"Traction Trust smashed by Inquirer."

33600:23:54,645 --> 00:23:58,103"Landlords refuse to clear slums."

33700:23:58,449 --> 00:24:02,146"Inquirer wins slum fight."

33800:24:03,488 --> 00:24:07,424

"Wall Street backs copper swindle."

33900:24:07,492 --> 00:24:09,619"Copper robbers indicted."

34000:24:09,694 --> 00:24:12,629"Galleons of Spain off Jersey Coast."

34100:24:12,697 --> 00:24:15,325Is that really your idea

of how to run a newspaper?

34200:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,801I don't know how to run a newspaper.I try everything I can think of.

34300:24:18,870 --> 00:24:21,839You know there's not


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the slightest proof this...

34400:24:21,906 --> 00:24:24,841- ...Armada's off the Jersey Coast.- Hello, Mr.Bernstein.

34500:24:24,909 --> 00:24:26,376Can you prove it isn't?

34600:24:26,444 --> 00:24:29,174Mr.Bernstein,I'd like you to meet Mr.Thatcher.

34700:24:29,947 --> 00:24:31,107- Mr.Leland.- Hello.

34800:24:31,182 --> 00:24:32,877Mr.Thatcher, my ex-guardian.

34900:24:32,950 --> 00:24:38,149We have no secrets from our readers.Thatcher is one of our devoted readers.

35000:24:38,256 --> 00:24:42,090He knows what's wrong with every copyof the Inquirer since I took over. Read.

35100:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,220

"Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop.Could send you prose poems...

35200:24:45,296 --> 00:24:49,096"...about scenery but don't feel rightspending your money. Stop.

35300:24:49,167 --> 00:24:52,000"There is no war in Cuba."Signed "Wheeler." Any answer?

35400:24:52,070 --> 00:24:56,598Yes. Dear Wheeler: You providethe prose poems, I'll provide the war.

35500:24:56,707 --> 00:24:59,437- That's fine.- I like it myself. Send it right away.


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35600:24:59,510 --> 00:25:01,876I came to see youabout this campaign of yours.

35700:25:01,946 --> 00:25:04,813The Inquirer's campaign againstthe Public Transit Company.

35800:25:04,882 --> 00:25:07,112Do you know anythingwe can use against them?

35900:25:07,185 --> 00:25:08,777You're still the college boy, eh?

36000:25:08,853 --> 00:25:12,550I was expelled from college, a lotof colleges, you remember? I remember.

36100:25:13,658 --> 00:25:16,456I think I should remind you of a factyou have forgotten.

36200:25:16,527 --> 00:25:20,395You're one of the largest stockholdersin the Public Transit Company.

36300:25:20,465 --> 00:25:23,525The trouble is, you don't realize

you're talking to two people.

36400:25:23,601 --> 00:25:26,764As Charles Foster Kanewho owns 82,364 shares...

36500:25:26,838 --> 00:25:30,638...of Public Transit Preferred. See,I do have a general idea of my holdings.

366

00:25:30,708 --> 00:25:33,199I sympathize with you.Kane is a scoundrel...

36700:25:33,478 --> 00:25:36,606...his paper should be closed,a committee formed to boycott him.

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00:25:36,681 --> 00:25:40,481If you can form such a committee,put me down for a contribution of $1,000.

36900:25:40,551 --> 00:25:43,418On the other hand,I am the publisher of the Inquirer.

37000:25:43,488 --> 00:25:47,584As such it's my duty, I'll let you inon a little secret. It is also my pleasure...

37100:25:47,758 --> 00:25:51,956...to see that the working people of thiscommunity aren't robbed by a pack...

37200:25:52,029 --> 00:25:54,589...of money-mad pirates, just because...

373

00:25:55,032 --> 00:25:58,195...they have no oneto look after their interests.

37400:25:58,603 --> 00:26:01,595I'll let you in on another little secret,Mr.Thatcher:

37500:26:01,672 --> 00:26:05,540I think I'm the man to do it.You see, I have money and property.

37600:26:05,610 --> 00:26:09,603If I don't look after the interestsof the underprivileged, somebody else will.

37700:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,739Maybe somebodywithout money or property.

37800:26:11,816 --> 00:26:13,147

That would be too bad.

37900:26:13,217 --> 00:26:15,344I saw your financial statement today.

38000:26:15,419 --> 00:26:18,388- Oh, did you?- Tell me, honestly...


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38100:26:18,589 --> 00:26:22,855...don't you think it's rather unwiseto continue this philanthropic enterprise...

38200:26:22,927 --> 00:26:25,987...this Inquirer, that is costing you$1 million a year?

38300:26:26,063 --> 00:26:30,898Yes. I did lose $1 million last year.I expect to lose $1 million this year.

38400:26:30,968 --> 00:26:33,664I expect to lose $1 million next year.

38500:26:33,738 --> 00:26:35,968At the rate of $1 million a year...

38600:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,635...I'll have to close this place in 60 years.

38700:26:49,420 --> 00:26:51,820"With respect to the said newspapers...

38800:26:51,889 --> 00:26:54,380"...the said Charles Foster Kane...

389

00:26:54,458 --> 00:26:58,019"...hereby relinquishes all control thereof...

39000:26:58,462 --> 00:27:01,226"...and of the syndicatespertaining thereto...

39100:27:01,299 --> 00:27:07,363"...and any and all other newspaper, pressand publishing properties of any kind...

39200:27:07,838 --> 00:27:10,204"...and agrees to abandonall claim thereto--"

39300:27:10,274 --> 00:27:13,641- Which means we're bust all right.- Well, out of cash.


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39400:27:13,711 --> 00:27:15,269All right, Mr.Bernstein.

39500:27:15,346 --> 00:27:19,874I've read it, Mr.Thatcher,just let me sign it and go home.

39600:27:19,951 --> 00:27:23,318You're too oldto call me Mr.Thatcher, Charles.

39700:27:23,454 --> 00:27:26,446You're too old to be called anything else.

39800:27:26,524 --> 00:27:28,719You were always too old.

39900:27:29,360 --> 00:27:33,057

"In consideration thereof,Thatcher & Company agrees...

40000:27:33,130 --> 00:27:35,963"...to pay to Charles Foster Kane,as long as he lives--"

40100:27:36,033 --> 00:27:37,660My allowance.

402

00:27:37,735 --> 00:27:41,637"You will continue to maintainover your newspapers a large...

40300:27:41,706 --> 00:27:46,439"...measure of control.Measure of control."

40400:27:46,944 --> 00:27:50,175And we shall seek your advice.

40500:27:52,750 --> 00:27:56,618This depression is temporary.

40600:27:57,822 --> 00:28:01,622There's always the chancethat you'll die richer than I will.

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00:28:01,859 --> 00:28:04,327It's a cinch I'll die richer than I was born.

40800:28:04,395 --> 00:28:06,863We never lost as much as we made.

40900:28:06,931 --> 00:28:11,459Yes, yes, but your methods.You know, Charles...

41000:28:11,535 --> 00:28:16,768...you never made a single investment.You always used money to....

41100:28:17,475 --> 00:28:19,500To buy things.

41200:28:22,713 --> 00:28:25,011To buy things.

41300:28:25,950 --> 00:28:29,909My mother should have chosena less reliable banker.

41400:28:36,761 --> 00:28:40,527I always gagged on that silver spoon.

41500:28:42,033 --> 00:28:44,501You know, Mr.Bernstein...

41600:28:46,203 --> 00:28:48,899...if I hadn't been very rich...

41700:28:49,473 --> 00:28:51,805...I might have been a really great man.

41800:28:51,876 --> 00:28:54,071Don't you think you are?

41900:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,277I think I did pretty wellunder the circumstances.

42000:29:01,118 --> 00:29:03,518What would you like to have been?

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00:29:06,324 --> 00:29:08,656Everything you hate.

42200:29:17,168 --> 00:29:20,331I beg your pardon, sir? What did you say?

42300:29:20,404 --> 00:29:24,204- It's 4:30. Isn't it, Jennings?- Yes, ma'am.

42400:29:24,342 --> 00:29:26,902You have enjoyed a very rare privilege,young man.

42500:29:26,977 --> 00:29:30,003- Did you find what you were looking for?- No.

42600:29:32,483 --> 00:29:34,508

- You're not Rosebud, are you?- What?

42700:29:34,585 --> 00:29:37,577Rosebud, and your name is Jennings,isn't it?

42800:29:37,722 --> 00:29:42,159Goodbye, everybody.Thanks for the use of the hall.

42900:29:42,893 --> 00:29:46,454Who's a busy man, me?I'm chairman of the board.

43000:29:46,530 --> 00:29:48,964I got nothing but time.What do you want to know?

43100:29:49,033 --> 00:29:53,265We thought maybe.... If we could

find out what he meant by his last words...

43200:29:53,337 --> 00:29:55,862- ...as he was dying.- That "Rosebud"?

43300:29:55,940 --> 00:29:58,431Maybe some girl?


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43400:29:58,509 --> 00:30:00,739There were a lot of them in the early days.

43500:30:00,811 --> 00:30:04,042It's hardly likely that Mr.Kanecould have met someone casually...

43600:30:04,115 --> 00:30:06,379...and then 50 years later, on his deathbed--

43700:30:06,450 --> 00:30:11,251Well, you're pretty young, Mr.Thompson.

43800:30:11,455 --> 00:30:15,084A fellow will remember a lot of thingsyou wouldn't think he'd remember.

439

00:30:15,159 --> 00:30:16,888You take me.

44000:30:16,961 --> 00:30:22,024One day, back in 1896,I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry...

44100:30:22,233 --> 00:30:25,430...and as we pulled out,there was another ferry pulling in...

44200:30:25,503 --> 00:30:28,301...and on it there was a girlwaiting to get off.

44300:30:29,106 --> 00:30:30,903A white dress she had on.

44400:30:30,975 --> 00:30:33,466She was carrying a white parasol.

44500:30:33,778 --> 00:30:36,269I only saw her for one second.

44600:30:36,347 --> 00:30:41,808She didn't see me at all,but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since...

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00:30:42,686 --> 00:30:45,246...that I haven't thought of that girl.

44800:30:45,756 --> 00:30:49,954- Who else have you been to see?- Well, I went down to Atlantic City.

44900:30:50,027 --> 00:30:51,961Susie?

45000:30:52,096 --> 00:30:53,427Thank you.

45100:30:53,998 --> 00:30:56,865I called her myself the day after he died.

45200:30:57,201 --> 00:30:59,601I thought maybe somebody ought to.

45300:31:00,905 --> 00:31:05,205- She couldn't even come to the phone.- I'll be seeing her again in a couple of days.

45400:31:05,276 --> 00:31:07,267About Rosebud, Mr.Bernstein.

45500:31:07,511 --> 00:31:11,140If you'd talk about anything connectedwith Mr.Kane that you can remember.

45600:31:11,215 --> 00:31:13,149You were with him from the beginning.

45700:31:13,217 --> 00:31:18,621From before the beginning, young fellow.And now it's after the end.

45800:31:19,657 --> 00:31:22,023Have you tried to see anybody

except Susie?

45900:31:22,092 --> 00:31:26,426I haven't seen anybody else, but I'vebeen through Walter Thatcher's journal.

46000:31:26,497 --> 00:31:30,991- That man was the biggest fool I ever met.


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- He made an awful lot of money.

46100:31:31,068 --> 00:31:33,866Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money...

46200:31:34,371 --> 00:31:39,604...if all you want is to make a lot of money.

46300:31:42,179 --> 00:31:47,515You take Mr.Kane.It wasn't money he wanted.

46400:31:49,753 --> 00:31:53,951Thatcher never did figure him out.Sometimes even I couldn't.

46500:31:54,124 --> 00:31:57,525You know who you ought to see?Mr.Leland.

46600:31:57,728 --> 00:32:00,788He was Mr.Kane's closest friend.They went to school together.

46700:32:00,865 --> 00:32:02,059Harvard?

46800:32:02,132 --> 00:32:05,795Oh, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,

Cornell, Switzerland.

46900:32:05,870 --> 00:32:08,498He was thrown out of a lot of colleges.

47000:32:08,739 --> 00:32:11,367Mr.Leland never had a nickel.

47100:32:11,675 --> 00:32:14,701One of those families

where the father is worth $10 million...

47200:32:14,778 --> 00:32:19,078...then one day he shoots himself,and it turns out there's nothing but debts.

47300:32:20,751 --> 00:32:22,981He was with Mr.Kane and me...


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47400:32:23,988 --> 00:32:26,923...the first day Mr.Kane took overthe Inquirer.

47500:32:34,598 --> 00:32:37,066Take a good look at it, Jedediah.

47600:32:37,334 --> 00:32:41,202It's going to look a lot differentone of these days. Come on.

47700:32:49,980 --> 00:32:53,279There ain't no bedrooms in this joint.That's a newspaper building.

47800:32:53,350 --> 00:32:58,151You're getting paid, mister,for opinions or for hauling?

47900:33:00,958 --> 00:33:03,859- Jedediah.- After you, Mr.Kane.

48000:33:16,073 --> 00:33:18,303Excuse me, sir, but I....

48100:33:21,245 --> 00:33:23,611Welcome, Mr.Kane.

48200:33:25,716 --> 00:33:28,446Welcome to the Inquirer, Mr.Kane.

48300:33:28,519 --> 00:33:30,817I am Herbert Carter, the editor-in-chief.

48400:33:30,888 --> 00:33:34,790- Thank you, Mr.Carter. This is Mr.Leland--- How do you do, Mr.Leland?

48500:33:34,858 --> 00:33:37,793Our new dramatic critic.I hope I haven't made a mistake.

48600:33:37,861 --> 00:33:40,091- It is dramatic critic, right?- That's right.


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48700:33:40,164 --> 00:33:43,759- Are they standing for me?- You? Oh, Mr.Kane.

48800:33:44,268 --> 00:33:45,132Standing?

48900:33:45,202 --> 00:33:46,829- How do you do?- How do you do?

49000:33:46,904 --> 00:33:49,270I thought it would be a nice little gesture.

49100:33:49,340 --> 00:33:52,468- Ask them to sit down, will you, please.- The new publisher.

49200:33:53,043 --> 00:33:56,911- You may resume your duties, gentlemen.- Thank you.

49300:33:56,981 --> 00:34:00,348- I didn't know your plans.- I don't know my plans myself.

49400:34:00,651 --> 00:34:02,983- Matter of fact, I haven't got any plans.

- No?

49500:34:03,053 --> 00:34:06,079Except to get out a newspaper.

49600:34:10,327 --> 00:34:12,693- Mr.Bernstein.- Yes, Mr.Kane.

49700:34:12,763 --> 00:34:15,129

Mr.Carter, this is Mr.Bernstein.

49800:34:15,232 --> 00:34:20,226- Mr.Bernstein is my general manager.- How do you do, Mr.Carter?

49900:34:20,304 --> 00:34:22,204- Mr.Carter.


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- How do you do?

50000:34:23,207 --> 00:34:25,539- Yes, Mr.Bernstein.- Stein.

50100:34:25,609 --> 00:34:29,272- Kane.- Mr.Carter, is this your office?

50200:34:29,346 --> 00:34:33,510My little private sanctumis at your disposal.

50300:34:33,584 --> 00:34:36,985- Excuse me.- But I don't think I understand.

50400:34:37,388 --> 00:34:41,381

Mr.Carter, I'm going to live right herein your office as long as I have to.

50500:34:42,493 --> 00:34:44,461Live here? Yes?

50600:34:44,528 --> 00:34:47,520- Excuse me.- But a morning newspaper, after all--

507

00:34:47,598 --> 00:34:48,428Excuse me.

50800:34:48,499 --> 00:34:52,367We're practically closed for 12 hours a day.

50900:34:52,670 --> 00:34:55,798That's one of the thingsthat's going to have to be changed here.

510

00:34:55,873 --> 00:34:59,434- The news goes on for 24 hours a day.- 24?

51100:34:59,576 --> 00:35:02,909- That's right.- Excuse me.

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00:35:02,980 --> 00:35:04,675It's impossible....

51300:35:04,748 --> 00:35:09,776I've drawn that cartoon.I'm no good as a cartoonist.

51400:35:09,853 --> 00:35:11,445You certainly aren't.

51500:35:11,522 --> 00:35:13,353You're the dramatic critic, Leland.

51600:35:13,424 --> 00:35:15,392- You still eating?- I'm still hungry.

51700:35:15,459 --> 00:35:17,950Here's a front-page story in the Chronicle...

51800:35:18,028 --> 00:35:21,156...about a Mrs.Harry Silverstonein Brooklyn who's missing.

51900:35:21,231 --> 00:35:25,861She's probably murdered. Why isn'tthere something about it in the Inquirer?

52000:35:25,936 --> 00:35:27,733

We're running a newspaper...

52100:35:27,805 --> 00:35:30,740- I'm absolutely starving to death.- ...not a scandal sheet.

52200:35:31,642 --> 00:35:32,870That's all right.

52300:35:32,943 --> 00:35:36,936

Mr.Carter, here is a three-column headlinein the Chronicle.

52400:35:37,014 --> 00:35:39,574Why hasn't the Inquirera three-column headline?

52500:35:39,650 --> 00:35:41,117


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The news wasn't big enough.

52600:35:41,185 --> 00:35:45,918Mr.Carter, if the headline is big enough,it makes the news big enough.

52700:35:45,989 --> 00:35:48,617- That's right!- The murder of Mrs.Harry Silverstone--

52800:35:48,692 --> 00:35:50,887There's no proofthat she was murdered, or dead.

52900:35:50,961 --> 00:35:53,828It says she's missing.The neighbors are getting suspicious.

53000:35:53,897 --> 00:35:56,798

It's not our functionto report the gossip of housewives.

53100:35:56,867 --> 00:36:01,099If we were interested in that kind of thing,we could fill the paper twice over, daily.

53200:36:01,171 --> 00:36:04,538That's the kind of thing we are going to beinterested in from now on.

53300:36:04,608 --> 00:36:07,600I want you to send your best manto see Mr.Silverstone.

53400:36:07,678 --> 00:36:11,546Have him tell Mr.Silverstone if he doesn'tproduce his wife, Mrs.Silverstone...

53500:36:11,615 --> 00:36:13,708...the Inquirer will have him arrested.

53600:36:13,784 --> 00:36:16,275Tell Mr.Silverstonehe's a detective from....

53700:36:16,353 --> 00:36:18,821- Central Office.- The Central Office.


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53800:36:19,123 --> 00:36:23,651If Mr.Silverstone gets suspiciousand asks to see your man's badge...

53900:36:23,727 --> 00:36:27,561...your man is to get indignantand call Mr.Silverstone an anarchist.

54000:36:27,798 --> 00:36:31,029Loudly, so the neighbors can hear.You ready for dinner, Jedediah?

54100:36:31,101 --> 00:36:34,366I can't see that the functionof a respectable newspaper--

54200:36:34,505 --> 00:36:37,599Thank you so much, Mr.Carter. Goodbye.

54300:36:38,208 --> 00:36:39,436Goodbye.

54400:36:40,177 --> 00:36:43,010Paper! Read all about it!

54500:36:43,247 --> 00:36:46,182Read all about itin the early morning Chronicle.

54600:36:46,250 --> 00:36:48,718The mystery of the ladythat vanished in Brooklyn.

54700:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,645Read all about itin the early morning Chronicle.

54800:37:06,303 --> 00:37:09,932

We'll be on the street soon,Charlie, another 10 minutes.

54900:37:10,073 --> 00:37:12,769Three hours and 50 minutes late,but we did it.

55000:37:12,843 --> 00:37:14,401


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- Tired?- A tough day.

55100:37:14,478 --> 00:37:16,105- A wasted day.- Wasted?

55200:37:16,213 --> 00:37:19,114You only made the paper overfour times tonight, that's all.

55300:37:19,349 --> 00:37:22,807I've changed the front page a little,Mr.Bernstein. That's not enough.

55400:37:22,886 --> 00:37:27,118There's something I've got to get intothis paper besides pictures and print.

555

00:37:27,691 --> 00:37:30,819I've got to make the New York Inquireras important to New York...

55600:37:30,894 --> 00:37:32,794...as the gas in that light.

55700:37:33,430 --> 00:37:35,227What are you going to do, Charlie?

558

00:37:35,299 --> 00:37:39,463My Declaration of Principles.Don't smile, Jedediah.

55900:37:39,870 --> 00:37:42,361I've got it all written out here.

56000:37:42,906 --> 00:37:45,932You don't want to make any promisesyou don't want to keep.

56100:37:46,009 --> 00:37:47,704These'll be kept.

56200:37:48,579 --> 00:37:51,047"I'll provide the people of this city...

56300:37:51,415 --> 00:37:54,976


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"...with a daily paperthat will tell all the news honestly.

56400:37:56,220 --> 00:37:59,587- "I will also provide--"- That's two sentences starting with "I."

56500:37:59,656 --> 00:38:02,250People will know who's responsible...

56600:38:02,326 --> 00:38:06,387...and they'll get the truth in the Inquirer,quickly, simply and entertainingly.

56700:38:06,463 --> 00:38:09,830No special interests will be allowedto interfere with that truth.

56800:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,802

"I will also provide them with a fightingand tireless champion of their rights...

56900:38:13,871 --> 00:38:16,499"...as citizens and as human beings."

57000:38:17,174 --> 00:38:18,471Signed:

57100:38:18,842 --> 00:38:21,436

"Charles Foster Kane."

57200:38:23,380 --> 00:38:26,076- Can I have that, Charlie?- I'm going to print it.

57300:38:26,149 --> 00:38:27,582Solly!

57400:38:28,585 --> 00:38:29,677

Yes, Mr.Kane?

57500:38:29,753 --> 00:38:32,620I want you to run this editorialin a box on the front page.

57600:38:32,689 --> 00:38:34,179This morning's front page?


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57700:38:34,258 --> 00:38:37,318That's right, Solly,that means we'll have to remake again.

57800:38:37,394 --> 00:38:39,225- Yes.- Go down and tell them.

57900:38:39,296 --> 00:38:40,627All right.

58000:38:40,898 --> 00:38:44,595When you're through with that,I'd like to have it back.

58100:38:46,303 --> 00:38:49,602I'd like to keep that particularpiece of paper myself.

58200:38:49,673 --> 00:38:53,734I have a hunch it might turn outto be something pretty important.

58300:38:54,011 --> 00:38:56,206- A document...- Sure.

58400:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,716

...like the Declaration of Independenceand the Constitution...

58500:39:00,484 --> 00:39:03,044...and my first report card at school.

58600:39:31,348 --> 00:39:34,647I know you're tired, gentlemen,but I brought you here for a reason.

587

00:39:34,718 --> 00:39:38,381- This little pilgrimage will do us good.- The Chronicle's a good newspaper.

58800:39:38,455 --> 00:39:41,549Chronicle's a good idea for a newspaper.Notice the circulation.

589


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00:39:41,625 --> 00:39:46,528495,000.But look who's working for the Chronicle.

59000:39:46,596 --> 00:39:49,793- With them, it's no trick to get circulation.- You're right.

59100:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,299You know how long it took the Chronicleto get that staff together?

59200:39:53,370 --> 00:39:56,134- Twenty years.- Twenty years?

59300:39:56,673 --> 00:40:01,770Six years ago, I looked at a pictureof the world's greatest newspaper men.

59400:40:01,845 --> 00:40:04,075I felt like a kid in front of a candy store.

59500:40:04,147 --> 00:40:08,140Tonight, six years later,I got my candy, all of it.

59600:40:08,685 --> 00:40:10,653Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer.

59700:40:10,721 --> 00:40:13,815Make an extra copy of that pictureand mail it to the Chronicle.

59800:40:15,459 --> 00:40:18,826It'll make you all happy to learnthat our circulation this morning...

59900:40:18,895 --> 00:40:21,693...was the greatest in New York: 684,000.

60000:40:23,233 --> 00:40:26,225684,132.

60100:40:26,470 --> 00:40:27,630Right.

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00:40:28,171 --> 00:40:31,868I hope you'll forgive my rudenessin taking leave of you.

60300:40:31,942 --> 00:40:34,410I'm going abroad next week for a vacation.

60400:40:34,478 --> 00:40:38,039I've promised my doctor for sometimethat I would leave when I could.

60500:40:38,115 --> 00:40:40,083I now realize I can't.

60600:40:40,617 --> 00:40:43,245Say, Mr.Kane,as long as you're promising...

60700:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,256

...there's a lot of pictures and statuesin Europe you ain't bought yet.

60800:40:47,424 --> 00:40:49,324You can't blame me, Mr.Bernstein.

60900:40:49,726 --> 00:40:52,422They've been making statuesfor 2,000 years.

610

00:40:52,496 --> 00:40:54,589And I've only been buying for five.

61100:40:54,664 --> 00:40:57,224- Promise me, Mr.Kane.- I promise, Mr.Bernstein.

61200:40:57,300 --> 00:41:00,133- Thank you.- Mr.Bernstein?

61300:41:00,203 --> 00:41:03,468You don't expect me to keepany of those promises, do you?

61400:41:05,275 --> 00:41:07,368And now, gentlemen!

615


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00:41:07,444 --> 00:41:10,675Your complete attention, if you please.

61600:41:16,586 --> 00:41:19,680Are we going to declare war on Spain?

61700:41:27,531 --> 00:41:31,058Oh, mama, here they come.Shoot me while I'm happy.

61800:41:39,242 --> 00:41:44,544I said, "Are we going to declarewar on Spain, or are we not?"

61900:41:44,614 --> 00:41:46,479The Inquirer already has.

62000:41:46,783 --> 00:41:50,617You long-faced, overdressed anarchist.

62100:41:50,854 --> 00:41:52,617I'm not overdressed.

62200:41:52,756 --> 00:41:55,953You are, too.Mr.Bernstein, look at his necktie.

62300:41:56,026 --> 00:41:58,187Let's have the song about Charlie.

62400:41:58,261 --> 00:42:01,662- Is there a song about Charlie?- Is there a song about you, Mr.Kane?

62500:42:01,731 --> 00:42:06,065You buy a bag of peanuts in this town,you get a song written about you.

62600:42:15,912 --> 00:42:18,244

I've seen that fellow. He's good.

62700:42:18,448 --> 00:42:19,847Good evening, Mr.Kane.

62800:42:19,916 --> 00:42:22,885"There is a man, a certain man


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62900:42:23,086 --> 00:42:26,419"And for the poor you may be surethat he'll do all he can

63000:42:26,556 --> 00:42:29,992"Who is this one? This favorite son

63100:42:30,060 --> 00:42:33,029"Just by his actionhas the traction magnates on the run

63200:42:33,096 --> 00:42:36,395"Who loves to smoke, enjoys a joke

63300:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,660"Who wouldn't get a bit upsetif he were really broke

634

00:42:39,803 --> 00:42:42,966"With wealth and fame he's still the same

63500:42:43,039 --> 00:42:46,566"I'll bet you $5 you're not aliveif you don't know his name

63600:42:52,382 --> 00:42:53,815"What is his name?

637

00:42:53,884 --> 00:42:56,409"It's Charlie Kane, it's Mister Kane!

63800:42:56,486 --> 00:43:00,320"He doesn't like that MisterHe likes good old Charlie Kane"

63900:43:15,972 --> 00:43:18,998- Isn't it wonderful? Such a party.- Yes.

64000:43:19,075 --> 00:43:20,838What's the matter?

64100:43:21,011 --> 00:43:24,310"Who says a miss was made to kiss

64200:43:24,381 --> 00:43:27,646


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"And when he meets onealways tries to do exactly this

64300:43:27,717 --> 00:43:30,777"Who buys the food, who buys the drinks

64400:43:30,854 --> 00:43:34,221"Who thinks that dough was madeto spend and acts the way he thinks

64500:43:34,291 --> 00:43:37,021"Now is it, Joe, no, no, no"

64600:43:37,761 --> 00:43:40,423Bernstein, these menwho are now with the Inquirer...

64700:43:40,497 --> 00:43:43,193...who were with the Chronicle

until yesterday--

64800:43:43,333 --> 00:43:44,925Oh, mama, please.

64900:43:45,035 --> 00:43:46,525- Give me that.- What? The blonde?

65000:43:46,603 --> 00:43:50,266

- No, the brunette.- Where did you learn that, Charlie?

65100:43:51,541 --> 00:43:54,738Bernstein, these menwho were with the Chronicle...

65200:43:54,811 --> 00:43:57,871...weren't they just as devotedto the Chronicle policy...

65300:43:58,014 --> 00:44:00,209...as they are now to our policies?

65400:44:00,317 --> 00:44:03,047Sure, they're just like anybody else.

65500:44:03,286 --> 00:44:05,345


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They got work to do, they do it.

65600:44:05,655 --> 00:44:08,624Only they happen to bethe best men in the business.

65700:44:16,967 --> 00:44:21,267Do we stand for the same thingsthe Chronicle stands for?

65800:44:21,471 --> 00:44:23,234Certainly not.

65900:44:24,241 --> 00:44:29,304Listen, Mr.Kane, he'll have them changedto his kind of newspapermen in a week.

66000:44:29,479 --> 00:44:33,313There's always a chance, of course,

that they'll change Mr.Kane.

66100:44:33,984 --> 00:44:35,383Without his knowing it.

66200:44:38,855 --> 00:44:42,416Mr.Leland, I got a cable from Mr.Kane!

66300:44:44,861 --> 00:44:47,557- I got a cable here from Mr.Kane.

- What?

66400:44:47,631 --> 00:44:49,565- From Paris, France.- What?

66500:44:49,666 --> 00:44:52,635- From Paris, France.- Come on in.

666

00:44:53,570 --> 00:44:58,507"Who by his actionhas the traction magnates on the run"

66700:44:58,808 --> 00:45:03,939It's a good thing he promisednot to send back any more statues.

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00:45:05,282 --> 00:45:08,012Look, he wants to buythe world's biggest diamond.

66900:45:08,084 --> 00:45:11,645Why didn't you go to Europe with him?He wanted you to.

67000:45:11,721 --> 00:45:14,451I wanted Charlie to have fun,with me along....

67100:45:14,624 --> 00:45:16,819Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt?

67200:45:16,893 --> 00:45:21,592Am I a horse-faced hypocrite?Am I a New England schoolmarm?

673

00:45:22,365 --> 00:45:23,662Yes.

67400:45:24,934 --> 00:45:29,496If you thought I'd answer you differentfrom what Mr.Kane tells you, I wouldn't.

67500:45:29,572 --> 00:45:31,005"World's biggest diamond."

676

00:45:31,074 --> 00:45:33,440I didn't know Charliewas collecting diamonds.

67700:45:33,510 --> 00:45:35,034He ain't.

67800:45:35,111 --> 00:45:38,308He's collecting somebodythat's collecting diamonds.

67900:45:38,782 --> 00:45:41,876Anyway, he ain't only collecting statues.

68000:45:43,953 --> 00:45:46,046"Welcome home, Mr.Kane...

68100:45:46,122 --> 00:45:49,888


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"...from 467 employeesof the New York Inquirer."

68200:45:49,959 --> 00:45:51,483Here he comes!

68300:45:55,532 --> 00:45:57,329Welcome, Mr.Kane.

68400:45:58,134 --> 00:45:59,965- I know I've a moustache.- It looks awful.

68500:46:00,036 --> 00:46:03,631Have we got a society editor?

68600:46:03,707 --> 00:46:06,642- Right here, Mr.Kane.- Miss Townsend is the society editor.

68700:46:06,710 --> 00:46:09,406Miss Townsend,this is Mr.Charles Foster Kane.

68800:46:10,580 --> 00:46:14,710Miss Townsend, I've been away so long.I don't know your routine.

68900:46:15,852 --> 00:46:18,980

I got a little social announcement.

69000:46:19,055 --> 00:46:23,048I wish you wouldn't treat thisany differently than you would any other...

69100:46:23,259 --> 00:46:24,886...social announcement.

69200:46:25,528 --> 00:46:28,588

Mr.Kane, on behalf of all the employeesof the Inquirer--

69300:46:28,665 --> 00:46:32,192Mr.Bernstein,thank you very much, everybody, I....

69400:46:33,103 --> 00:46:37,199


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I'm sorry, I can't accept it now.

69500:46:37,374 --> 00:46:38,841Goodbye.

69600:46:39,509 --> 00:46:41,704Say, he was in an awful hurry.

69700:46:42,679 --> 00:46:44,806Hey, everybody, look out here.

69800:46:44,914 --> 00:46:46,882Let's go to the window.

69900:46:47,117 --> 00:46:50,018- Mr.Leland! Mr.Bernstein!- Yes, Ms.Townsend?

700

00:46:50,086 --> 00:46:52,953This announcement:"Mr.and Mrs.Thomas Monroe Norton...

70100:46:53,022 --> 00:46:56,583"...announce the engagementof their daughter, Emily Monroe Norton...

70200:46:56,659 --> 00:46:58,422"...to Mr.Charles Foster Kane."

70300:46:58,495 --> 00:47:00,019Come on.

70400:47:02,532 --> 00:47:07,401Emily Monroe Norton, she's the nieceof the President of the United States.

70500:47:07,604 --> 00:47:09,504President's niece?

70600:47:09,806 --> 00:47:13,105Before he's through,she'll be a president's wife.

70700:47:21,484 --> 00:47:24,885The way things turned out,I don't need to tell you.


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70800:47:24,954 --> 00:47:27,684Miss Emily Norton was no rosebud.

70900:47:27,791 --> 00:47:29,884It didn't end very well, did it?

71000:47:30,326 --> 00:47:31,588It ended.

71100:47:32,695 --> 00:47:36,187Then there was Susie. That ended, too.

71200:47:38,501 --> 00:47:41,129You know, Mr.Thompson, I was thinking...

71300:47:41,938 --> 00:47:44,873...this Rosebudyou're trying to find out about....

71400:47:46,109 --> 00:47:47,440Yes?

71500:47:51,848 --> 00:47:54,248Maybe that was something he lost.

71600:47:55,084 --> 00:47:58,451Mr.Kane was a man who lostalmost everything he had.

71700:47:59,122 --> 00:48:01,386You ought to see Jed Leland.

71800:48:01,458 --> 00:48:04,655Of course, he and Mr.Kanedidn't exactly see eye to eye.

71900:48:04,727 --> 00:48:06,718You take the Spanish-American war.

72000:48:06,796 --> 00:48:10,163I guess Mr.Leland was right.That was Mr.Kane's war.

72100:48:10,233 --> 00:48:13,225We didn't really have anythingto fight about.


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72200:48:14,003 --> 00:48:17,598Do you think if it hadn't been for that warof Mr.Kane's...

72300:48:17,907 --> 00:48:20,671...we'd have the Panama Canal?

72400:48:21,311 --> 00:48:23,802I wish I knew where Mr.Leland was.

72500:48:24,414 --> 00:48:27,577A lot of the time nowthey don't tell me these things.

72600:48:28,885 --> 00:48:30,716Maybe even he's dead.

727

00:48:30,820 --> 00:48:32,549In case you'd like to know...

72800:48:32,622 --> 00:48:35,591...he's at the Huntington Memorial Hospitalon 180th Street.

72900:48:35,658 --> 00:48:37,148You don't say. I had--

730

00:48:37,227 --> 00:48:40,128Nothing particular the matter with him,they tell me, just....

73100:48:40,196 --> 00:48:42,790Just old age.

73200:48:44,100 --> 00:48:49,003It's the only disease that you don'tlook forward to being cured of.

73300:49:01,117 --> 00:49:03,984I can remember absolutely everything,young man.

73400:49:04,053 --> 00:49:05,350That's my curse.

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00:49:05,421 --> 00:49:09,983That's one of the greatest cursesever inflicted on the human race: memory.

73600:49:10,960 --> 00:49:15,795I was his oldest friend, and as far asI was concerned, he behaved like a swine.

73700:49:16,032 --> 00:49:20,128Not that Charlie was ever brutal.He just did brutal things.

73800:49:20,904 --> 00:49:25,170Maybe I wasn't his friend,but if I wasn't, he never had one.

73900:49:25,441 --> 00:49:29,036Maybe I was what you nowadayscall a stooge.

74000:49:29,112 --> 00:49:31,478You were about to say somethingabout Rosebud.

74100:49:31,548 --> 00:49:33,778Do you happen to have a good cigar?

74200:49:33,850 --> 00:49:37,718I've got a young physician herewho thinks I'm going to give up smoking.

74300:49:37,787 --> 00:49:40,085No, I'm afraid I haven't. Sorry.

74400:49:40,423 --> 00:49:42,118I changed the subject, didn't l?

74500:49:42,191 --> 00:49:44,659What a disagreeable old manI have become.

74600:49:45,595 --> 00:49:50,430You're a reporter and you want to knowwhat I think about Charlie Kane.

74700:49:53,870 --> 00:49:56,395I suppose he had some private sortof greatness.


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74800:49:56,472 --> 00:49:58,201But he kept it to himself.

74900:49:58,274 --> 00:50:01,243He never gave himself away.He never gave anything away.

75000:50:01,311 --> 00:50:04,303He just left you a tip.

75100:50:05,782 --> 00:50:07,181He had a generous mind.

75200:50:07,250 --> 00:50:10,447I don't suppose anybodyever had so many opinions.

753

00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:13,450But he never believed in anythingexcept Charlie Kane.

75400:50:13,523 --> 00:50:17,152He never had a convictionexcept Charlie Kane in his life.

75500:50:17,427 --> 00:50:19,657I suppose he died without one.

75600:50:19,796 --> 00:50:22,390That must have been pretty unpleasant.

75700:50:22,732 --> 00:50:27,396Of course, a lot of us check out withouthaving any special convictions about death.

75800:50:27,470 --> 00:50:30,735But we do know what we're leaving.We do believe in something.

75900:50:31,407 --> 00:50:34,467Are you absolutely sureyou haven't got a cigar?

76000:50:34,611 --> 00:50:36,602- Sorry, Mr.Leland.- Never mind.


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76100:50:36,679 --> 00:50:40,308- What do you know about Rosebud?- "Rosebud"?

76200:50:41,284 --> 00:50:44,515His dying words: "Rosebud."

76300:50:44,854 --> 00:50:46,947I saw that in the Inquirer.

76400:50:47,957 --> 00:50:50,949I never believed anythingI saw in the Inquirer.

76500:50:51,027 --> 00:50:52,460Anything else?

766

00:50:52,528 --> 00:50:56,225I can tell you about Emily.I went to dancing school with Emily.

76700:50:56,633 --> 00:50:58,396I was very graceful.

76800:50:59,369 --> 00:51:02,736- We were talking about the first Mrs.Kane.- What was she like?

76900:51:02,805 --> 00:51:05,330She was like all the girls I knewin dancing school.

77000:51:05,408 --> 00:51:08,434Very nice girl. Emily was a little nicer.

77100:51:09,912 --> 00:51:11,971After the first couple of months...

77200:51:12,048 --> 00:51:16,348...she and Charlie didn't see muchof each other except at breakfast.

77300:51:17,020 --> 00:51:19,682It was a marriagejust like any other marriage.


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77400:51:29,899 --> 00:51:31,594- You're beautiful.- I can't be.

77500:51:31,668 --> 00:51:33,431Yes, you are. You're very beautiful.

77600:51:33,503 --> 00:51:36,063I've never been to six partiesin one night before.

77700:51:36,305 --> 00:51:39,069- I've never been up this late.- It's a matter of habit.

77800:51:39,142 --> 00:51:42,111- What will the servants think?- That we enjoyed ourselves.

77900:51:42,178 --> 00:51:44,703Why do you have to go straight offto the newspaper?

78000:51:44,781 --> 00:51:48,478You never should've married anewspaperman, they're worse than sailors.

78100:51:49,419 --> 00:51:51,319I absolutely adore you.

78200:51:52,155 --> 00:51:55,090Charles, even newspapermenhave to sleep.

78300:51:56,559 --> 00:51:59,995I'll call Mr.Bernstein and have himput off my appointments till noon.

78400:52:01,330 --> 00:52:02,422

What time is it?

78500:52:03,066 --> 00:52:04,727I don't know. It's late.

78600:52:07,070 --> 00:52:09,038It's early.


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78700:52:09,138 --> 00:52:10,833Charles....

78800:52:11,441 --> 00:52:14,410Do you know how longyou kept me waiting last night...

78900:52:14,477 --> 00:52:17,310...when you went to the newspaperfor 10 minutes?

79000:52:17,547 --> 00:52:20,744What do you do in a newspaperin the middle of the night?

79100:52:20,883 --> 00:52:25,877My dear, your only correspondentis the Inquirer.

79200:52:25,955 --> 00:52:28,753Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rivalof flesh and blood.

79300:52:28,825 --> 00:52:31,385I don't spend that much timeon the newspaper.

79400:52:31,461 --> 00:52:35,557It isn't just the time.

It's what you print, attacking the President.

79500:52:35,631 --> 00:52:38,862- You mean Uncle John.- I mean the President of the United States.

79600:52:38,935 --> 00:52:41,403He's still Uncle Johnand a well-meaning fathead...

797

00:52:41,471 --> 00:52:44,872...who's letting a pack of high-pressurecrooks run his administration.

79800:52:44,941 --> 00:52:48,741- This whole oil scandal--- He happens to be the President, not you.

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00:52:48,811 --> 00:52:51,644That's a mistake that will be correctedone of these days.

80000:52:51,714 --> 00:52:56,981Your Mr.Bernstein sent Juniorthe most incredible atrocity yesterday.

80100:52:57,954 --> 00:53:00,650I simply can't have it in the nursery.

80200:53:02,759 --> 00:53:06,058Mr.Bernstein is apt to pay a visitto the nursery now and then.

80300:53:06,129 --> 00:53:07,721Does he have to?

80400:53:08,765 --> 00:53:09,823

Yes.

80500:53:09,932 --> 00:53:14,369- Really, Charles, people will think--- What I tell them to think.

80600:53:33,189 --> 00:53:35,214Wasn't he ever in love with her?

80700:53:35,391 --> 00:53:37,154

He married for love.

80800:53:38,060 --> 00:53:39,425Love.

80900:53:40,096 --> 00:53:41,825That is why he did everything.

81000:53:41,898 --> 00:53:44,867That's why he went into politics.

It seems we weren't enough.

81100:53:44,934 --> 00:53:47,994He wanted all the voters to love him, too.

81200:53:48,671 --> 00:53:51,196All he wanted out of life was love.


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81300:53:52,008 --> 00:53:55,239That's Charlie's story. How he lost it.

81400:53:55,444 --> 00:53:58,641You see, he just didn't have any to give.

81500:53:59,649 --> 00:54:02,447He loved Charlie Kane, of course.

81600:54:03,052 --> 00:54:04,451Very dearly.

81700:54:05,188 --> 00:54:07,418And his mother,I guess he always loved her.

81800:54:07,490 --> 00:54:10,550- How about his second wife?

- Susan Alexander?

81900:54:11,327 --> 00:54:13,488You know what Charlie called her?

82000:54:13,696 --> 00:54:16,460The day after he'd met her,he told me about her.

82100:54:16,632 --> 00:54:21,535

He said she was"a cross-section of the American public."

82200:54:23,773 --> 00:54:27,402I guess he couldn't help it.She must have had something for him.

82300:54:27,543 --> 00:54:30,307That first night, according to Charlie...

824

00:54:31,380 --> 00:54:33,746...all she had was a toothache.

82500:55:04,780 --> 00:55:07,305What are you laughing at, young lady?

82600:55:09,185 --> 00:55:11,949- What's the matter with you?


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- Toothache.

82700:55:12,021 --> 00:55:13,784- What?- Toothache.

82800:55:13,856 --> 00:55:15,187Toothache?

82900:55:18,628 --> 00:55:20,653You mean you've got a toothache.

83000:55:21,564 --> 00:55:24,465- What's funny about that?- You're funny, mister.

83100:55:24,533 --> 00:55:27,127- You've got dirt on your face.- Not dirt, it's mud.

83200:55:27,203 --> 00:55:29,501Do you want some hot water?I live right here.

83300:55:29,572 --> 00:55:31,540What's that, young lady?

83400:55:32,808 --> 00:55:35,242I said, if you wanted some hot water...

83500:55:35,544 --> 00:55:39,708...I could get you some...hot water.

83600:55:43,319 --> 00:55:45,617All right, thank you very much.

83700:55:59,969 --> 00:56:01,937Do I look any better now?

83800:56:02,004 --> 00:56:06,737- This medicine doesn't do a bit of good.- What you need is to get your mind off it.

83900:56:11,914 --> 00:56:15,042Excuse me, but my landladyprefers me to keep this door open...


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84000:56:15,284 --> 00:56:18,276- ...when I have a gentleman caller.- All right.

84100:56:18,354 --> 00:56:20,447You have got a toothache, haven't you?

84200:56:20,523 --> 00:56:23,583- I surely have.- Why don't you try laughing at me again?

84300:56:23,659 --> 00:56:25,627- What?- I'm still pretty funny.

84400:56:25,695 --> 00:56:28,289I know, but you don't want meto laugh at you.

84500:56:28,364 --> 00:56:30,423I don't want your tooth to hurt, either.

84600:56:30,499 --> 00:56:31,796Look at me.

84700:56:32,234 --> 00:56:33,360See that?

848

00:56:33,436 --> 00:56:34,767What are you doing?

84900:56:34,837 --> 00:56:37,328I'm wiggling both my earsat the same time.

85000:56:39,508 --> 00:56:41,305That's it, smile.

851

00:56:43,980 --> 00:56:47,814It took me two solid years at the bestboys' school in the world to learn that.

85200:56:47,883 --> 00:56:51,080The fellow who taught meis now president of Venezuela.

853


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00:56:53,022 --> 00:56:54,455That's it!

85400:56:58,260 --> 00:57:00,854- Is it a giraffe?- No, not a giraffe.

85500:57:00,930 --> 00:57:03,831- I bet it is.- What?

85600:57:03,899 --> 00:57:06,026Well, then it's an elephant.

85700:57:06,202 --> 00:57:09,933- It's supposed to be a rooster.- A rooster!

85800:57:10,439 --> 00:57:14,273

You know an awful lot of tricks.Are you a professional magician?

85900:57:14,343 --> 00:57:16,937- No, I'm not a magician.- I was just joking.

86000:57:17,013 --> 00:57:18,674You really don't know who I am?

861

00:57:18,748 --> 00:57:21,842You told me your name, Mr.Kane,but I'm awfully ignorant.

86200:57:21,917 --> 00:57:26,411I guess you caught on to that.I bet I've heard your name a million times.

86300:57:26,589 --> 00:57:29,683You really like me, though,even though you don't know who I am?

86400:57:29,759 --> 00:57:33,217I surely do. You've been wonderful.

86500:57:34,296 --> 00:57:37,026Without you I don't knowwhat I would have done.


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86600:57:37,099 --> 00:57:40,432I had a toothache,and I don't know many people.

86700:57:40,736 --> 00:57:42,636I know too many people.

86800:57:43,072 --> 00:57:45,097I guess we're both lonely.

86900:57:45,408 --> 00:57:49,367Want to know what I was going to dobefore I ruined my best Sunday clothes?

87000:57:49,445 --> 00:57:52,710I bet they're not your best Sunday clothes.You probably have more.

871

00:57:52,782 --> 00:57:53,976I was just joking.

87200:57:55,718 --> 00:57:59,654I was on my wayto the Western Manhattan Warehouse...

87300:57:59,722 --> 00:58:01,747...in search of my youth.

874

00:58:02,825 --> 00:58:07,455You see, my mother died a long time ago.Her things were put in storage out West.

87500:58:07,530 --> 00:58:09,998There wasn't any other place to put them.

87600:58:10,066 --> 00:58:14,127I thought I'd send for them now.Tonight I was going to take a look at them.

87700:58:14,203 --> 00:58:16,433A sort of sentimental journey.

87800:58:20,009 --> 00:58:22,341I run a couple of newspapers.What do you do?

879


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00:58:22,411 --> 00:58:23,435Me?

88000:58:23,712 --> 00:58:25,942- How old did you say you were?- I didn't say.

88100:58:26,015 --> 00:58:28,711If you had, I wouldn't have asked you.

88200:58:28,784 --> 00:58:30,046- How old?- Pretty old.

88300:58:30,119 --> 00:58:32,212- How old?- Twenty-two in August.

88400:58:32,288 --> 00:58:34,313

That's a ripe old age. What do you do?

88500:58:34,390 --> 00:58:37,848I work at Seligman's.I'm in charge of the sheet music.

88600:58:38,127 --> 00:58:42,723- Is that what you want to do?- No, I wanted to be a singer, I guess.

887

00:58:43,466 --> 00:58:47,061- That is, I didn't. My mother did for me.- What happened to the singing?

88800:58:47,136 --> 00:58:51,163Mother always thought, she always talkedabout grand opera for me.

88900:58:51,240 --> 00:58:52,468Imagine.

89000:58:52,741 --> 00:58:56,973But my voice isn't that kind.It's just, you know what mothers are like.

89100:58:58,747 --> 00:58:59,975Yes.

892


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00:59:02,017 --> 00:59:04,815- Have you got a piano?- A piano?

89300:59:05,788 --> 00:59:07,585Yes, there's one in the parlor.

89400:59:07,656 --> 00:59:10,716- Would you sing for me?- You wouldn't want to hear me sing.

89500:59:10,793 --> 00:59:12,192Yes, I would.

89600:59:13,963 --> 00:59:16,227Don't tell meyour toothache is bothering you.

89700:59:16,298 --> 00:59:18,027

No, that's all gone.

89800:59:19,770 --> 00:59:21,738All right.

89900:59:22,706 --> 00:59:24,469Let's go to the parlor.

90000:59:24,541 --> 00:59:30,343"Yes, Lindor shall be mine

90100:59:31,749 --> 00:59:35,276"I have sworn it

90200:59:36,153 --> 00:59:38,986"For weal or woe

90300:59:41,091 --> 00:59:43,821"Yes, Lindor

90400:59:50,601 --> 00:59:53,900"Lo giurai

90500:59:55,306 --> 00:59:59,208"La vincero"

90601:00:07,251 --> 01:00:09,719


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There is only one manwho can rid the politics...

90701:00:09,787 --> 01:00:13,086...of this state of the evil dominationof Boss Jim Gettys.

90801:00:13,157 --> 01:00:17,059I am speaking of Charles Foster Kane,the fighting liberal...

90901:00:17,127 --> 01:00:20,688...the friend of the workingman,the next governor of this state...

91001:00:20,764 --> 01:00:23,028...who entered upon this campaign....

91101:00:23,100 --> 01:00:25,068

...with one purpose only:

91201:00:25,135 --> 01:00:29,504To point outand make public the dishonesty...

91301:00:29,740 --> 01:00:34,541...the downright villainyof Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine...

914

01:00:34,845 --> 01:00:39,179...now in complete controlof the government of this state.

91501:00:39,616 --> 01:00:43,382I made no campaign promises...

91601:00:43,887 --> 01:00:48,517...because, until a few weeks ago,I had no hope of being elected.

91701:00:50,160 --> 01:00:54,324Now, however, I have something morethan a hope.

91801:00:57,568 --> 01:01:00,093Jim Gettys has something lessthan a chance.


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91901:01:04,508 --> 01:01:06,408Every straw vote...

92001:01:06,577 --> 01:01:11,412...every independent poll showsthat I will be elected.

92101:01:11,849 --> 01:01:13,544Very well.

92201:01:13,717 --> 01:01:16,481Now I can afford to make some promises.

92301:01:26,764 --> 01:01:28,925The workingman and the slum child...

92401:01:28,999 --> 01:01:34,164...know they can expect

my best efforts in their interests.

92501:01:34,238 --> 01:01:38,800The decent, ordinary citizens knowthat I'll do everything in my power...

92601:01:38,876 --> 01:01:44,075...to protect the underprivileged,the underpaid, and the underfed.

927

01:01:48,018 --> 01:01:52,387- Mother, is Pop governor yet?- Not yet, Junior.

92801:01:56,260 --> 01:01:59,627I'd make my promises now...

92901:01:59,930 --> 01:02:03,388...if I weren't too busyarranging to keep them.

93001:02:07,971 --> 01:02:10,963But here's one promise I'll make...

93101:02:11,074 --> 01:02:14,100...and Boss Jim Gettys knows I'll keep it.

93201:02:15,412 --> 01:02:18,245


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My first official actas governor of this state...

93301:02:18,649 --> 01:02:23,518...will be to appoint a special districtattorney to arrange for the indictment...

93401:02:23,754 --> 01:02:29,454...prosecution and convictionof Boss Jim W. Gettys.

93501:02:55,686 --> 01:02:58,883If the election were held today,you'd be in by 100,000 votes.

93601:02:58,956 --> 01:03:00,821- Gettys isn't even pretending.- Pop.

937

01:03:00,891 --> 01:03:03,052- Hello, son.- He isn't just scared, he's sick.

93801:03:03,126 --> 01:03:05,959It's beginning to dawn on Jim GettysI mean what I say.

93901:03:06,029 --> 01:03:09,396- Did you like your old man's speech?- I could hear every word.

94001:03:09,466 --> 01:03:11,127- Hello, Emily.- Hold it.

94101:03:11,702 --> 01:03:14,364- Great speech, Mr.Kane.- Wonderful.

94201:03:14,438 --> 01:03:16,770

Will you get us a taxi?

94301:03:18,141 --> 01:03:21,042I'm sending Junior homein the car with Oliver.

94401:03:21,411 --> 01:03:23,072Good night, Father.


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01:04:38,121 --> 01:04:40,919He's been saying the most terrible....

95901:04:45,228 --> 01:04:46,889Mrs.Kane.

96001:04:48,899 --> 01:04:51,390I don't supposeanybody would introduce us.

96101:04:52,869 --> 01:04:54,427I'm Jim Gettys.

96201:04:55,038 --> 01:04:56,198Yes?

96301:04:59,443 --> 01:05:03,174I made Miss Alexander send you the note,Mrs.Kane.

96401:05:03,246 --> 01:05:05,510She didn't want to at first. But she did it.

96501:05:05,582 --> 01:05:08,415Charlie, the things he said to me....He threatened to--

96601:05:09,519 --> 01:05:13,387I won't wait until I'm elected.

To start with, I think I'll break your neck.

96701:05:13,457 --> 01:05:16,221Maybe you can do it, and maybe you can't.

96801:05:17,294 --> 01:05:21,424Your breaking this man's neckwould scarcely explain this note:

96901:05:22,399 --> 01:05:26,233

"Serious consequences for Mr.Kane,for yourself and for your son."

97001:05:26,303 --> 01:05:29,329- He wanted to get her to come here--- What does this note mean?

97101:05:29,406 --> 01:05:32,000


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I'm Susan Alexander.I know what you're thinking--

97201:05:32,075 --> 01:05:34,908- What does this note mean, Ms.Alexander?- She don't know.

97301:05:34,978 --> 01:05:37,811She sent it because I told herit wouldn't be smart not to.

97401:05:37,881 --> 01:05:41,180- Emily, this gentleman--- I'm not a gentleman.

97501:05:41,418 --> 01:05:44,285Your husband is only trying to be funnycalling me one.

976

01:05:44,354 --> 01:05:46,948I don't even know what a gentleman is.

97701:05:47,991 --> 01:05:51,222You see, my idea of a gentleman....

97801:05:54,431 --> 01:05:57,867If I owned a paper and didn't likethe way somebody was doing things...

979

01:05:57,934 --> 01:06:00,368...some politician,I'd fight him with all I had.

98001:06:00,437 --> 01:06:02,268I wouldn't show him in a convict suit...

98101:06:02,339 --> 01:06:04,705...so his family could see his picturein the paper.

98201:06:04,775 --> 01:06:08,711- You're a cheap, crooked grafter--- We're talking now about what you are.

98301:06:09,646 --> 01:06:12,479I'm fighting for my life,not just my political life.


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98401:06:12,549 --> 01:06:14,744- He said unless you--- That's what I said.

98501:06:14,818 --> 01:06:18,811Here's the chance I'm willing to give him.It's more of a chance than he'd give me.

98601:06:18,889 --> 01:06:23,656Unless he decides by tomorrow thathe's so sick he has to go away for a year...

98701:06:23,727 --> 01:06:28,027...Monday morning, all papers in the state,except his, will carry the story I'll give.

98801:06:28,098 --> 01:06:29,497What story?

98901:06:30,300 --> 01:06:33,463- The story about him and Ms.Alexander.- There isn't any story!

99001:06:33,537 --> 01:06:34,765Shut up.

99101:06:35,138 --> 01:06:37,936We've got evidence that would look badin the headlines.

99201:06:38,008 --> 01:06:40,670Do you want me to give you the evidence?

99301:06:42,779 --> 01:06:45,612I'd rather he withdrewwithout having the story published.

99401:06:45,682 --> 01:06:48,742Not that I care about him,

but I'd be better off that way.

99501:06:51,688 --> 01:06:53,781So would you, Mrs.Kane.

99601:06:54,191 --> 01:06:56,250What about me?


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101101:07:57,554 --> 01:08:00,819For you and this public thief...

101201:08:01,158 --> 01:08:03,490...to take the love of the peopleaway from me?

101301:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,324You got other things to think about.Your little boy.

101401:08:06,463 --> 01:08:08,931You don't want him to read about youin the papers.

101501:08:08,999 --> 01:08:13,527There's only one person in the worldto decide what I'll do. And that's me.

101601:08:16,373 --> 01:08:19,934You decided what you were going to do,Charles, some time ago.

101701:08:27,184 --> 01:08:29,846You're making a bigger fool of yourselfthan I thought.

101801:08:29,920 --> 01:08:32,286

- I've got nothing to say to you.- You're licked--

101901:08:32,355 --> 01:08:35,756Get out. If you want to see me,have the warden write me a letter.

102001:08:35,992 --> 01:08:40,656If it was anybody else, I'd say what's goingto happen to you would be a lesson to you.

102101:08:40,931 --> 01:08:43,627Only you're going to needmore than one lesson.

102201:08:44,467 --> 01:08:48,494- And you'll get more than one lesson.- Don't worry about me, Gettys.


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102301:08:50,173 --> 01:08:52,232Don't worry about me!

102401:08:53,143 --> 01:08:55,737I'm Charles Foster Kane!

102501:08:56,313 --> 01:09:00,579I'm no cheap, crooked politiciantrying to save himself...

102601:09:00,650 --> 01:09:03,676...from the consequences of his crimes!

102701:09:04,721 --> 01:09:08,748Gettys! I'm gonna send you to Sing Sing.

102801:09:08,925 --> 01:09:11,052Sing Sing, Gettys.

102901:09:14,297 --> 01:09:17,357- Have you a car, Mrs.Kane?- Yes, thank you.

103001:09:17,901 --> 01:09:20,665- Good night.- Good night.

103101:09:31,448 --> 01:09:35,441

Paper. Read all about it. Extra, extra.

103201:09:39,956 --> 01:09:42,049- Paper?- No, thanks.

103301:09:56,940 --> 01:09:59,773With a million majorityalready against him...

1034

01:10:00,043 --> 01:10:03,376...and the church countiesstill to be heard from...

103501:10:03,580 --> 01:10:06,014...I'm afraid we got no choice.

103601:10:06,082 --> 01:10:07,515


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This one?

103701:10:10,954 --> 01:10:12,717That one.

103801:10:36,012 --> 01:10:37,877Good night again.

103901:10:49,025 --> 01:10:52,517- Is there anything I can--- No, thanks, Mr.Bernstein.

104001:10:54,164 --> 01:10:56,462You better go home and get some sleep.

104101:10:57,534 --> 01:10:59,024You, too.

1042

01:11:01,438 --> 01:11:03,235Good night, Mr.Kane.

104301:11:28,365 --> 01:11:30,925- Hello, Jedediah.- I'm drunk.

104401:11:34,571 --> 01:11:39,736If you've got drunk to talk to me about...

1045

01:11:42,245 --> 01:11:44,805...Ms.Alexander, don't bother.

104601:11:46,649 --> 01:11:48,446I'm not interested.

104701:11:52,655 --> 01:11:56,523I've set back the sacred cause of reform,is that it?

1048

01:11:57,994 --> 01:11:59,393All right.

104901:12:01,164 --> 01:12:04,463If that's the way they want it,the people have mad

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