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