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Year:	1941
Rating:	8.6(137838)
Listed in:	Drama, Mystery
Directed by:	Orson Welles
Actors:	Joseph Cotten Ray Collins Erskine Sanford Dorothy Comingore Agnes Moorehead Ruth Warrick
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Cast

	Directed by
Orson Welles
	Actors
Joseph Cotten	as Jedediah Leland
Ray Collins	as James W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford	as Herbert Carter
Everett Sloane	as Mr. Bernstein
William Alland	as Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart	as Raymond
George Coulouris	as Walter Parks Thatcher
Fortunio Bonanova	as Matiste
Gus Schilling	as The Headwaiter
Philip Van Zandt	as Mr. Rawlston
Harry Shannon	as Kane's Father
Sonny Bupp	as Kane III
Buddy Swan	as Kane - Age Eight
Orson Welles	as Kane
Don Ackerman	as Man at Party in Everglades
Demetrius Alexis	as Newsreel Extra
Peter Allen	as Man in Senate Investigating Committee
William Alston	as Man at Xanadu Great Hall
Baudelio Alva	as Newsreel Extra
T. Lockwood Arbright	as Newsreel Extra
Sam Ash	as Man at Boat Dock
Michael Audley	as Man in Projection Room
Walter Bacon	as City Room Employee
Harry A. Bailey	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Charles Bennett	as Entertainer
Danny Borzage	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Robert Brent	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
James Brought	as Extra in Newsreel
Morgan Brown	as Servant
Harry Burkhardt	as Wedding Guest
William Calkins	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Porter Chase	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Gene Chervow	as Extra in Newsreel
J.J. Clark	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Edmund Cobb	as Inquirer Reporter
Eddie Coke	as Reporter
Nat 'King' Cole	as Pianist in 'El Rancho'
Tom Coleman	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Gene Coogan	as Newsreel Extra
Gino Corrado	as Gino
Herbert Corthell	as City Editor
Charles Cross	as Man at Opera
Thomas A. Curran	as Teddy Roosevelt
Jack Curtis	as Boss Printer
Ed Dahlen	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Ernie Daniels	as Hireling - Chicago Inquirer
Tim Davis	as Copy Boy
Gayle DeCamp	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Carl Deloro	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
George DeNormand	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Eddie Dew	as Man in Projection Room
John Dilson	as Ward Heeler
Robert Dudley	as Photographer
Lou Duello	as Man at Opera
Art Dupuis	as Newsreel Extra
Al Eben	as Solly
John Eckert	as Driver of Car
Jack Egan	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Carl Ekberg	as Adolf Hitler
Dick Elmore	as Newsreel Extra
Carl Faulkner	as Hermann Goring
Jack Floyd	as Hireling - Chicago Inquirer
Ray Flynn	as City Room Employee
Monty Ford	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Olin Francis	as Expressman
Al Frazier	as Gorilla Man
Guy Gada	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Captain Garcia	as General in 'News on the March'
Jack Gargan	as Man at Xanadu Great Hall
Bud Geary	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Rudolph Germaine	as Newsreel Extra
Bob Gladman	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Peter Gowland	as Guest
Jimmy Grant	as Man at Party in Everglades
Jesse Graves	as Joseph
Ernest Grooney	as Man on Hospital Roof
Jack Gwynne	as Man on Hospital Roof
Bobby Haines	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Frank Haney	as City Room Employee
Harry Harris	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Sam Harris	as Newsreel Extra
Lew Harvey	as Newspaper Man
Henry Hebert	as Best Man at Wedding
Edward L. Hemmer	as Bit Part
Cliff Herd	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Bryan 'Slim' Hightower	as Fish Driver
Harlan Hoagland	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
John Huettner	as Man at Xanadu Great Hall
Mitchell Ingraham	as Politician
Jack Itay	as Man at Madison Square Garden
Jack Jahries	as Extra in Newsreel
Walter James	as Ward Heeler
George W. Jimenez	as Waiter at Inquirer Party
Clayton Jones	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Harry Jones	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Alexander Julian	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Bill Kane	as Man on Hospital Roof
Arthur Kay	as Orchestra Leader
E. Kerry	as Person in Front of 'Chronicle' Building
Milton Kibbee	as Reporter at Wedding
Alan Ladd	as Reporter Smoking Pipe at End
Mike Lally	as Newsreel Extra
Perc Launders	as Man in Projection Room
Walter Lawrence	as Newsreel Extra
Bob Lawson	as City Room Employee
Bert LeBaron	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
David Ledner	as Extra in Newsreel
Adam Linke	as Druggist
J.D. Lockhart	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Ludwig Lowry	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Buck Mack	as Reporter at Boat Deck
James T. Mack	as Prompter
Teddy Mangean	as Man on Roof
Herman J. Mankiewicz	as Newspaperman
Jack Manolas	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Joe Manz	as Jennings
Mickey Martin	as Newsboy
Clyde McAtee	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Major McBride	as Shadowgraph Man
Frank McClure	as Minor Role
Lee McCluskey	as Newsreel Extra
John McCormack	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Charles Meakin	as Civic Leader
Hercules Mendez	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Jim Merritt	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Buddy Messinger	as Man at Boat Dock
E.G. Miller	as Neville Chamberlain/Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Irving Mitchell	as Dr. Corey
Bert Moorhouse	as Man at Xanadu Great Hall
Philip Morris	as Politician
Jack Morton	as Butler
Louis Natheaux	as Reporter
George Noisom	as Copy Boy
Joseph North	as Male Secretary
John Northpole	as Newsreel Extra
Field Norton	as Opera Spectator
William H. O'Brien	as Male Secretary
Arthur O'Connell	as Reporter
Frank O'Connor	as Man at Madison Square Garden
Paddy O'Flynn	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Edward Peil Jr.	as Civic Leader
Gerald Pierce	as Copy Boy Delivering Message in Chicago Hotel Room
Thomas Pogue	as Man
Russ Powell	as Man at Madison Square Garden
J.R. Ralston	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Terrance Ray	as Man at Boat Dock/Man at Madison Square Garden
Jack Raymond	as Stagehand
William Reed	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Guy Repp	as Reporter
Sam Rice	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Verne Richards	as City Room Employee
Cyril Ring	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Jack Robbins	as Newsreel Extra
Don Roberts	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
George Rogers	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Victor Romito	as Newsreel Extra
Benny Rubin	as Smather
Shimen Ruskin	as Hireling
Edward Ryan	as Man in Inquirer City Room
Jack Ryan	as Man at Madison Square Garden
Robert Samven	as Newsreel Extra
Walter Sande	as Reporter at Xanadu
Jack Santoro	as Man at Xanadu Great Hall
Francis Sayles	as Politician
Dick Scott	as Opera Spectator
George Sherwood	as Hireling
Brent Shugar	as Newsreel Extra
Bruce Sidney	as Newsman
Guy Smith	as Newsreel Extra
Roy Smith	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Vince Speaker	as Newsreel Extra
George Sperry	as City Room Employee
Sam Steele	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Ralph Stein	as Hireling, Chicago Inquirer
Bert Stevens	as Man at Madison Square Garden
Landers Stevens	as Senate Investigator
Dimas Sutteno	as Newsreel Extra
Jack Taylor	as Newsreel Extra
Norman Taylor	as Man in Senate Investigating Committee
Bob Terry	as Extra in Newsreel
Karl Thomas	as Jetsam
Robert B. Tobin	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Gregg Toland	as Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel
Fred Trowbridge	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Glen Turnbull	as Flotsam
Gohr Van Vleck	as Stagehand
Harry J. Vejar	as Portuguese Laborer
Tim Wallace	as Newsreel Extra
Ken Weaver	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Charles West	as Stage Manager
Larry Wheat	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Patrick Whitney	as Reporter
Bill Wilkens	as Man on Roof
Larry Williams	as Man Singing at Inquirer Party
Tudor Williams	as Chorus Master
Richard Wilson	as Reporter
Roland Winters	as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall
Arthur Yeoman	as Speaker
Louis Young	as Newsreel Extra
	Actresses
Dorothy Comingore	as Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead	as Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick	as Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Georgia Backus	as Miss Anderson
Loretta Agar	as Dancing Girl
Alva Baudena	as Extra in Newsreel
Joan Blair	as Georgia
Dorothy Cleveland	as Person in Front of 'Chronicle' Building
Sally Corner	as Woman at Boat Deck
Irene Crosby	as Dancer
Louise Currie	as Reporter at Xanadu
Coy Danz	as Nurse on Hospital Roof
Margaret Davis	as Dancer
Donna Dax	as House Maid
Marie Day	as Insert Bit
Petra R. de Silva	as Newswoman
Frances Deets	as Dancer
Suzanne Dulier	as French Maid
Pauline Easterday	as Dancer
Edith Evanson	as Leland's Nurse
Juanita Fields	as Dancer
Jean Forward	as Opera Singer
Louise Franklin	as Susan's Maid
Gloria Gale	as Dancer
Renee Godfrey	as Nurse
Jerry Gordon	as Dancer
Edna Mae Jones	as Dancer
Ivy Keene	as Driver of Car/Woman in Loggia Scene
Laura Knight	as Dancer
Carmen Laroux	as Maid in Corridor in Xanadu
Mary Lorraine	as Dancer
Ellen Lowe	as Miss Townsend
Evelyn Mackert	as Woman at Boat Dock
Loretta Marsh	as Dancer
Frances E. Neal	as Ethel
Lillian Nicholson	as Woman at Opera
Leda Nicova	as Dancer
Lillian O'Malley	as Person in Front of 'Chronicle' Building
Jolane Reynolds	as Dancer
Suzanne Ridgeway	as Dancer
Myrtle Rishell	as Big Governess
Ruth Seeley	as Dancer
Kathryn Trosper	as Reporter at Xanadu
Jan Wiley	as Reporter at Xanadu
Vivian Wilson	as Dancer
Vera Winters	as Woman in Projection Room

Movie info

Languages:	English
Filming dates:	29 June 1940 - 23 October 1940 (additional scenes and retakes; 30 October 1940 - 4 January 1941)
Budget:	USD 686,033
Gross:	USA - 977,329 USD (2 June 1991) (re-release) UK - 10,510 GBP (13 June 1991) (re-release)

Plot:	Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world's richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - "Rosebud..." What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

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Original Soundtracks

"This Can't Be Love" (1938) (uncredited) Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Lorenz Hart Performed by The King Cole Trio
"Una voce poco fa" (1816) (uncredited) from opera "Il barbiere di Seviglia" Music by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Arranged by Nathaniel Shilkret Sung by Dorothy Comingore (dubbed by Jean Forward)
"A Poco No" (1935) (uncredited) Music by Pepe Guízar Lyrics by Herman Ruby
"Funeral March" (1837) (uncredited) (Third Movement of "Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35" (1839)) Written by Frédéric Chopin Arranged by Roy Webb
"A Hot Time in the Old Town" (1896) (uncredited) Music by Theo. A. Metz
"The Battle Cry of Freedom" (1862) (uncredited) Music by George Frederick Root Arranged by Roy Webb
"The Girl I Left Behind Me" (1758?) (uncredited) Written by Samuel Lover Arranged by Roy Webb
"In A Mizz" (1937) (uncredited) Written by Charlie Barnet and Haven Johnson
"Song Without Words, Op. 62 No.3 (Funeral March)" (1842-1844) (uncredited) Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Arranged by Max Steiner
"Aria from Salammbo" (1941) (uncredited) Music by Bernard Herrmann Lyrics by John Houseman Sung by Dorothy Comingore (dubbed by Jean Forward)
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Bad Lands (1939) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Bringing Up Baby (1938) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's The Conquerors (1932) Music by Max Steiner Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Curtain Call (1940) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Five Came Back (1939) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's The Flying Irishman (1939) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Gunga Din (1939) Music by Alfred Newman Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's A Man to Remember (1938) Music by Roy Webb Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) Music by Roy Webb and Frank Tours Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Music for Madame (1937) Music by Nathaniel Shilkret Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) Music by Anthony Collins Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's On Again-Off Again (1937) Music by Roy Webb and Dave Dreyer Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Theme" (uncredited) from RKO's Reno (1939) Music by Roy Webb and Dave Dreyer Performed in a "News On The March" sequence
"Charlie Kane" (1941) (uncredited) Music based on "A Poco No" by Pepe Guízar (1935) Lyrics by Herman Ruby Sung by Charles Bennett

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When Leland and Bernstein are inspecting Kane's art purchases, Leland moves a statue which wobbles too quickly for it to be made of a dense stone such as marble.
Fact errors: The Russian newspaper "Bednota," featured in the movie's opening newsreel, had been merged with "Socialisticheskoe Zemledelye" in 1931, long before Kane's death in 1941. The letter N is drawn like a Latin N (as opposed to a Cyrillic/Greek N which looks like an H).
SYNC: When Kane shouts at Jim Gettys from the stairwell, it is clear that most of the words he is saying are not coming out of his mouth.
Revealing mistakes: When Kane hovers over Jed Leland's unconscious form after Susan's horrible opera debut, the paper in the typewriter had a thumb mark in exactly the same place where Kane will grab it out of the typewriter a few seconds afterwards. Evidently they shot this scene at least once before.
Crew: There is a camera shadow on the large doors to the Thatcher vault as Thompson enters.
Crew: When Kane returns from Europe, he enters the Inquirer news room and rushes towards the camera, which dollies back. At this point, and when he subsequently leaves, the dolly track is visible on the floor.
Crew: The camera's shadow is cast on the large, closing door at the Thatcher library.
Revealing mistakes: The long dolly shot from outside the Kane house in Colorado and all the way back inside through two rooms, ending on the far side of a table, could not have been achieved with the table in place and, instead, the table had to be moved into position once the camera was past. It's an almost perfect illusion except that the hat on the table is still wobbling slightly (from the sudden movement) by the time it comes into shot.
SYNC: When Jim Gettys reveals Kane's mistress to his wife, Gettys shouts to Kane, "We've got proof! It will look bad in the papers" Looking closely, he actually said, "...It will look good in the papers..."
Crew: At the party scene where Kane dances with the girls, there are several shots of his reflection in the mirror. The camera shoots directly into the mirror and its silhouette can be clearly seen.
Revealing mistakes: During the picnic scene towards the end, Welles had to shoot against a back-projection because a location shoot was too costly and time-consuming. The stock footage used for the exterior was taken from King Kong (1933), hence on closer inspection the four birds that fly by are in fact very definite pterodactyls. RKO told Welles to take the pterodactyls out of the shot, but he liked them, and decided to keep them.
Continuity: When Mr. Thatcher has Mrs. Kane sign the contract at Mrs. Kane's Boarding House, Mrs. Kane goes over the closed window and opens it. In the first shot, the window could only be raised to the height of Mrs. Kane's shoulders, but in the second, it is above her head.
Crew: During the office party scene in which Kane welcomes the newly acquired Chronicle staff to The Inquirer, one of the dancing girls kicks a footlight that is being use to illuminate the scene (look in the lower left-hand corner of the frame).
Revealing mistakes: In the aquarium, a wire holding the 'octopus' is visible.
Continuity: When Kane is talking to drunk Leland, he puts his right hand in the pocket. In the next shot, after he walks away from Leland, his hand appears out of the pocket.
Continuity: At the first time on the opera house stage, just before Susan begins to sing, two men pass carrying a litter behind her twice.
Continuity: The first time we see the backstage preparations before Susan sings, the shadow of the curtain rising has a completely straight bottom edge. The second time we see this scenario, this time from behind Susan, as the curtain rises, the bottom of the curtain is adorned with a series of prominent curves.
Revealing mistakes: You can see through the eyes of the shrieking bird to the scenery behind it.
Continuity: When Susan Alexander Kane is doing the jigsaw puzzle by the fireplace, in the first wide shot it's clear that the puzzle is almost complete, but in the subsequent close-up the puzzle has hardly been started.
Continuity: When Kane's second wife is recounting the moment she left him, the suitcase that is open on the bed has frills on the inside. When we hear the butler continue the story, Kane walks back towards the suitcase to close it, and the frills are gone.
Continuity: When Susan Alexander Kane tells Kane that she's leaving him once and for all, Kane has a moustache. A second later as he watches her walk away, the moustache is gone.
Continuity: When Kane is performing his "rooster" as a shadow show to Susan, his hands are not in the position they would be to cast the shadow as it appears.
Revealing mistakes: After Kane's mother signs the contract for Thatcher, she stands up and seems to walk through the table on her way back to the window. This is due to the table being moved in order to create a continuous tracking shot from the front of the set (where the table was) to the back (window).
DATE: In the newsreel, the announcer states how a defaulting boarder had left the deed to a supposedly worthless mine (the Colorado Load) to Mary Kane in 1868, then begins his next sentence, "Fifty-seven years later, before a Congressional committee," as the film cuts to an old newsreel of Thatcher testifying before the committee. Fifty-seven years after 1868 would be 1925. As "talking" pictures were at best still in the experimental stage and in any case not in use in 1925, it would not be realistic that the newsreel of Thatcher testifying before Congress would have sound. Similarly, the sequence immediately following Thatcher's testimony, stated by the announcer as "that same month in Union Square", depicting the radical speaker denouncing Kane, would also not have had sound.
Fact errors: One of the posters advertising Susan Alexander's opera appearance shown in the newsreel misspells her first name "Suzan".
SYNC: At the end of her interview with the reporter Thompson, Susan Alexander Kane says, "Come over sometime and tell me the story of your life," but as she says this her mouth is not moving.
Continuity: In the first shots of the Breakfast table sequence, Emily's dress covers her shoulder in long shots, but is lower, leaving her shoulders bare, in close-ups.
Revealing mistakes: In the newsreel sequence, a gazette in Spanish is shown, announcing Kane's death. The newspaper's name is "El Correspendencia" but that name simply makes no sense for Spanish speakers. The closest match to this would be "La Correspondencia" because most of the words that end with an "A" are meant to reflect a female gender and the correct article is "La", not "El". However, that literally means "The Mail" and this is just a generic name which is fairly related to news media. Also, the words "Murió" in the header, as well as the "Xanadú" in the article's text are misspelled because they lack the accent marks on the last vowels. Another mistake is "Destinguido editor" instead of "Distinguido editor" can be read below the article's title. Finally, the title would never be written as such in Spanish (you can read "Madrid" in the paper): you wouldn't say "El Sr. Kane se murió" but rather "El Sr. Kane ha muerto".
Revealing mistakes: During the picnic, Susan clearly tightens her face muscles and turns her head before Kane slaps her.
Revealing mistakes: When the photographer at the party snaps the photograph of the former-Chronicle-now-Inquirer reporters, he is standing much too close to capture them all inside of the frame. At that distance (about 3 feet) he would only be able to capture about 3-4 of the men sitting there.
Continuity: The jigsaw puzzle that Susan is putting together changes considerably between the shot where Kane walks into the large room and asks her what she's doing and the next cut, where Kane is standing in front of the large fireplace. The amount of puzzle that she has completed increases greatly between the 2 shots.
Continuity: The large sofa (with a table behind) moves between the shot where Kane sits down in the armchair (while Susan does another puzzle), and the cut to Kane's POV. The sofa and table move almost into the line of sight between Kane and Susan between shots.
FAIR: In the beginning, Kane says, "Rosebud." The nurse enters the room after the word is spoken. The shooting script only mentions Kane and the nurse being in the room. However, within the movie itself Raymond the butler tells the reporter that he had heard Kane say "Rosebud" after the fight with Susan as well as just before he drops the snow globe, implying that what the viewer is shown in that scene is from Raymond's P.O.V.
Revealing mistakes: At the moment Mr. Bernstein meets the old newspaper publisher Mr. Cater and shakes his hand (at 34:50 on the DVD) you can see that the ceiling is just cloth, and a wire and part of a mic boom is visible through the material.

Quotes

[first lines]
Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud...

Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet
that would've explained everything.
Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got
everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something
he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have
explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's
life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle...
a missing piece.

Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very
rich, I might have been a really great man.
Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
Charles Foster Kane: I think I did pretty well under the
circumstances.
Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
Charles Foster Kane: Everything you hate.

Charles Foster Kane: Hello Jedediah.
Leland: Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking...
Charles Foster Kane: Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired.

Charles Foster Kane: I always gagged on the silver spoon.

[Quoting from Kane's letter]
Walter Parks Thatcher: I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.

Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was
thrown out of a lot of colleges.

Emily: Really Charles, people will think-...
Charles Foster Kane: - -what I tell them to think.

Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with
her, she'll be a president's wife.

Bernstein: There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet.
Charles Foster Kane: You can't blame me. They've been making statues
for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for
five.

Bernstein: We never lost as much as we made.

Charles Foster Kane: The news goes on for 24 hours a day.

Charles Foster Kane: We have no secrets from our readers. Mr.
Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers, Mr. Bernstein. He
knows what's wrong with every issue since I've taken charge.

Jedediah Leland: You still eating?
Charles Foster Kane: I'm still hungry.

Charles Foster Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last
year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to
lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the
rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place
in... 60 years.

Leland: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced
hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
Bernstein: Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than
what Mr. Kane tells you...

Reporter: Mr. Kane, how did you find business conditions in Europe?
Charles Foster Kane: How did I find business conditions in Europe?
With great difficulty.

Charles Foster Kane: I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

Charles Foster Kane: This gentleman was saying...
Boss Jim Gettys: I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a
gentleman is.

Charles Foster Kane: Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.

Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you
don't look forward to being cured of.

Thompson: He made an awful lot of money.
Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you
want to do is make a lot of money.

Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think
he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing
over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was
another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get
off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I
only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet
a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

Emily: He happens to be the president, Charles, not you.
Charles Foster Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of
these days.

Thatcher: You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles.
Charles Foster Kane: You're too old to be called anything else.

Charles Foster Kane: As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two
thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit -
you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings - I sympathize
with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be
run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You
may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a
contribution of one thousand dollars.

Charles Foster Kane: Read the cable.
Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose
poems about scenery, but don't feel right spending your money.
Stop. There is no war in Cuba, signed Wheeler." Any answer?
Charles Foster Kane: Yes. "Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems.
I'll provide the war."

Charles Foster Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we
not?
Jed Leland: The Inquirer already has.
Charles Foster Kane: [jokingly] You long-faced, overdressed
anarchist!
Jed Leland: I am NOT overdressed!
Charles Foster Kane: You are too! Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie!

Susan: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues.
I'm lonesome.

Charles Foster Kane: I don't think there's one word that can describe
a mans life.

Reporter 1: What's that?
Reporter 2: Another Venus.
Reporter 1: Twenty-five thousand bucks. That's a lot of money to pay
for a dame without a head.

Rawlson: It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to
tell us who he was.

Charles Foster Kane: Don't worry about me, Gettys! Don't worry about
me! I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politician,
trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes!
[Screams louder]
Charles Foster Kane: Gettys! I'm going to send you to Sing Sing! Sing
Sing, Gettys! Sing Sing!

Bernstein: [to Leland] Mr. Kane is finishing the review you started -
he's writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you.

[Susan is leaving Kane]
Kane: [pleading] Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this
to me.
Susan: I see. So it's YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at
all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me. [laughs] I can't do
this to you? [odd smile] Oh, yes I can.

[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing]
Thompson: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do
it? How could a man write a notice like that?
Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing
that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always
trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an
opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the
headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in
love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the
quotes off the singer.

Leland: That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the
tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to
give.

Kane, age eight: [talking about snowman] Maybe I'll make some teeth
and whiskers...

Charles Foster Kane: A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms.

Susan: Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to
be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever
you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect
me to love you

Charles Foster Kane: You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town
without someone writing a song about you.

Charles Foster Kane III: Mother, is Pop governor yet?
Emily: Not yet, Junior.

Stagecoach Driver / Hauler: There ain't no bedrooms in this joint,
that's a newspaper building!
Bernstein: You're getting paid, Mister, for opinions or for hauling?

[last lines]
Raymond: Throw that junk in.

Reporter: [at beginning of news reel on Charles Foster Kane's death]
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.

Leland: I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it
to himself.

Charles Foster Kane: [His answer to being blackmailed] There's only
one person in the world who's going to decide what I'm going to do
and that's me...

Susan: I don't know many people.
Charles Foster Kane: I know too many people. I guess we're both
lonely.

Leland: I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's
the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race:
memory.

Boss Jim Gettys: You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If
it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be
a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson.
And you're going to get more than one lesson.

Leland: [about Kane's "Declaration of Principles"] I'd like to keep
that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn
out to be something pretty important. A document...
Bernstein: Sure!
Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
and my first report card at school.

Leland: You don't care about anything except you. You just want to
persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love
you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be
played your way, according to your rules.

Thompson: Sentimental fellow, aren't you?
Raymond: Hmmm... yes and no.

Bernstein: Isn't it wonderful? Such a party.
Jed Leland: Yeah
Bernstein: What's the matter?
Jed Leland: Bernstein, these men who are now with the Inquirer, who
were with the Chronicle until yesterday... [... ] Bernstein,
Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle, weren't they just
as devoted to the Chronicle policies as they are now to our
policies?
Bernstein: Sure they are just like anybody else. They got work to do,
they do it. Only they happen to be the best men in the business.
Jed Leland: Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for,
Mr. Bernstein?
Bernstein: Certainly not. Listen, Mr. Kane will change them to his
kind of newspapermen in a week.
Jed Leland: There's always a chance, of course, that they will change
Mr. Kane without his knowing it.