:12:01
Stand by.
I'll tell you if we want to run it again.
:12:04
- How about it, Mr.Rawlston?
- How do you like it, boys?
:12:07
- Seventy years in a man's life.
- That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel.
:12:11
It's a good short,
but what it needs is an angle.
:12:14
All we saw on that screen
was that Charles Foster Kane is dead.
:12:17
I know that. I read the papers.
:12:19
It isn't enough to tell us what a man did...
:12:22
...you've got to tell us who he was.
:12:25
Wait a minute.
What were Kane's last words?
:12:29
Do you remember, boys?
:12:31
What were the last words
he said on Earth?
:12:33
Maybe he told us about himself
on his deathbed.
:12:35
- Maybe he didn't.
- All we saw was a big American.
:12:39
How did he differ from Ford,
Hearst or John Doe?
:12:42
I tell you, a man's dying words--
:12:44
What were they?
You don't read the papers.
:12:46
When Charles Foster Kane died,
he said one word:
:12:49
"Rosebud."
:12:50
That's all he said? Tough guy.
:12:52
Yes, "Rosebud." Just that one word.
:12:55
- But who is she?
- What was it?
:12:56
Here's a man
who could've been president...
:12:59
...who was as loved,
hated and talked about...
:13:01
...as any man in our time,
but when he dies...
:13:04
...something is on his mind called Rosebud.
:13:06
- What does that mean?
- A racehorse he bet on once.
:13:08
- That didn't come in.
- But what was the race?
:13:11
Rosebud.
:13:12
- Thompson.
- Yes.
:13:13
Hold this up a week, two if you must.
:13:15
Don't you think right after he's dead--
:13:17
Find out about Rosebud. Get in touch
with anybody who knew him...
:13:20
...or knew him well.
:13:22
That manager of his....
:13:24
Bernstein. His second wife.
She's still living.
:13:26
Susan Alexander Kane.
:13:27
- She runs a nightclub in Atlantic City.
- That's right.
:13:30
See them all. Get in touch with everybody
that ever worked for him...
:13:34
...whoever loved him,
whoever hated his guts.
:13:37
I don't mean go through
the city directory of course.
:13:40
I'll get on it right away.
:13:42
Good. Rosebud, dead or alive.
:13:45
It will probably turn out to be
a very simple thing.