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"The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) is a celebrated American drama that follows the changing fortunes of a prominent family during a period of social and technological transformation in early 20th-century America. The film explores themes of pride, tradition, and personal growth as new ideas and modern progress begin reshaping long-established ways of life. With expressive performances, elegant black-and-white visuals, and thoughtful direction, the story captures the shifting relationships among family members as they navigate change, expectations, and new realities. Recognized as one of the most artistically crafted films of its era, this 1942 classic continues to resonate with audiences who appreciate rich character development, timeless storytelling, and the beauty of early Hollywood cinema.
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00:03:44Is Miss Amberson at home?
00:03:46No, sir, Mr. Morgan.
00:03:48Miss Amberson's not home.
00:03:50Thanks, Sam.
00:03:52I guess she's still mad at him.
00:03:54Who?
00:03:56Isabel.
00:03:57Major Amberson's daughter.
00:03:58Eugene Morgan's her best beau.
00:04:00Took a bit too much to drink the other night right out here.
00:04:02And stepped clean through the base fiddle and serenade her.
00:04:06I haven't seen her since she got back from abroad.
00:04:08Isabel?
00:04:09Well, sir, I don't know as I know just how to put it.
00:04:12But she's... she's kind of a delightful-looking young lady.
00:04:14Isabel.
00:04:15Isabel.
00:04:16Isabel.
00:04:17Isabel.
00:04:18No.
00:04:19Isabel.
00:04:21Isabel.
00:04:22Well, sir, I don't know as I know just how to put it.
00:04:25And she's kind of a delightful-looking young lady.
00:04:30Isabel.
00:04:31Oh, no.
00:04:33It's my pleasure.
00:04:36It's my pleasure, Sue.
00:04:37Wilbur? Wilbur Minifer? I never thought he'd get her. Well, what do you know? Well, Wilbur
00:05:01may not be any Apollo, as it were, but he's a steady young businessman. Wilbur Minifer. Looks like
00:05:08Isabelle's pretty sensible for such a showy girl. To think of her taking him. Yes, just because a man
00:05:13any woman would like a thousand times better was a little wild one night at a serenade. What she
00:05:18minds was his making a clown of himself in her own front yard. Made her think he didn't care much
00:05:22about her. She's probably mistaken, but it's too late for her to think anything else now. The wedding
00:05:27will be a big Amberson-style thing. Raw oysters floating in scooped-out blocks of ice. A band
00:05:34from out of town. And then Wilbur will take Isabelle on the carefulest little wedding fib
00:05:39he can manage. And she'll be a good wife to him. But they'll have the worst spoiled lot
00:05:44of children this town will ever see. How on earth do you figure that out, Mrs. Foster?
00:05:48She couldn't love Wilbur, could she? Well, it'll all go to her children. And she'll ruin them.
00:05:55The prophetess proved to be mistaken in a single detail merely. Wilbur and Isabelle did not
00:06:02have children. They had only one. Only one? But I'd like to know if he isn't spoiled
00:06:07enough for a whole carload. Again, she found none to challenge her. George Amberson-Minafer,
00:06:13one of the major's one grandchild, was a princely terror. Hey! Boy, golly, I guess you
00:06:20think you own this town. There were people, grown people they were, who expressed themselves
00:06:27longingly. They did hope to live to see the day, they said, when that boy would get his
00:06:33comeuppance. His what? His comeuppance. Something's bound to take him down someday. I only want
00:06:41to be there. And look at the girly-curlies. And look at the girly-curlies. Say, Bob, where'd you
00:06:47steal your mother's all sash? Your sister stole it for me. She stole it off our old clothesline
00:06:53and gave it to me. You're gonna get your hair cut. Yeah, and I haven't got any sister. Yeah, I know you
00:06:57haven't at home. I mean the one that's in jail. I dare you to get out of that pony cart. I dare you
00:07:04outside that gate. I dare you halfway here, I dare you. Here I come, you son of a rat.
00:07:10Oh, boy!
00:07:15Boy! Boy!
00:07:18Boy!
00:07:19I forgot you to look on your own side, you big bully.
00:07:22In your corner. Hey, boy!
00:07:25Boy!
00:07:26Boy!
00:07:27Boy!
00:07:28Boy!
00:07:29That'll be enough of that.
00:07:31Oh!
00:07:32You stop that, you.
00:07:34Ow!
00:07:35I guess you don't know who I am.
00:07:36Yes, I do. And you're a disgrace to your mother.
00:07:38You shut up about my mother.
00:07:40Ow!
00:07:41She ought to be ashamed, little bad little boy like you.
00:07:43You pull down your vest, you little billy-goat, you. Pull down your vest, and wipe off your chin,
00:07:48and go to...
00:07:49What?
00:07:50This was heard not only by myself, but by my wife and the lady who lives next door.
00:07:55He's an old liar.
00:07:56Georgie, you mustn't say liar.
00:07:59Dear, did you say what he says you did?
00:08:04Well, Grandpa wouldn't wipe his shoe on that old story, Charlie.
00:08:08Georgie, you mustn't.
00:08:09I mean, none of us Ambersons wouldn't have anything to do with him.
00:08:11That's not what we're talking about.
00:08:12I'll bet if he wanted to see any of us, he'd have to go around to the side door.
00:08:16No, Georgie.
00:08:17No, no, no, no, no.
00:08:19From his memory, doesn't seem a very tactful person, but...
00:08:22He's just rip-wrap.
00:08:23Oh, you mustn't say so.
00:08:27Then you must promise me never to use those bad words again.
00:08:30I promise not to.
00:08:34Well, unless I get mad at somebody.
00:08:38Wait till they send him away to school.
00:08:40then he'll get it they'll knock the stuffing out of him but george returned with the same stuffing
00:08:49mr george ambison minifer came home for the holidays in his sophomore year nothing about him
00:09:02encouraged any hope that he had received his comeuppance cards were out for a ball in his
00:09:09honor and this pageant of the tenantry was the last of the great long-remembered dances that
00:09:17everybody talked about
00:09:19hello there
00:09:30that's where they'll put the major when his time comes now don't you look at me like that major
00:09:44george's you look fine there was a time though in your fourth month that you were so puny nobody
00:09:53thought you'd live where's fanny very well indeed isabel
00:09:59george this is mr morgan remember you very well indeed george you never saw me before in your
00:10:09life but from now on you're going to see a lot of me i hope i hope so too eugene where's wilbur you'll
00:10:17find him in the game room with some of the others he never was much for parties remember yes i remember
00:10:23i'll come back for a dance please do eugene morgan major amberson well well well remember you very
00:10:31well indeed very well indeed jean remember you very well indeed you don't remember her either georgie
00:10:41but of course you will miss morgan's from out of town you might take her up to the dancing
00:10:47i think you've pretty well done your duty here be delighted what did you say your name was
00:10:56morgan oh well i'm certainly glad you're back it's nice to be back too jack
00:11:01it's been a long time who's that oh i didn't catch his name when my mother presented him to me
00:11:06you mean the queer looking duck the who the queer looking duck oh i wouldn't say that the one with
00:11:12my uncle jack honorable jack amberson i thought everybody knew him it looks as though everybody
00:11:17ought to know him seems to run in your family well i suppose most everybody does know him out in this
00:11:23part of the country especially uncle jack's pretty well known he's a congressman you know really oh
00:11:29yes the family always like to have someone in congress well it's sort of a good thing in one way
00:11:35hello hello lucy hello lucy hello all gone hello lucy hello how do these ducks get to know you so quick
00:11:42oh i've been here a week seems to me you've been pretty busy most of these hello lucy hello
00:11:48most of these ducks i don't know what my mother will invite him here for anyway don't you like them
00:11:54well i used to be president of a club that we had here and some of them belonged to it
00:11:58but i don't care much for that sort of thing anymore i really don't see why my mother invited
00:12:03them maybe she didn't want to offend their fathers and mothers i hardly think that my mother need
00:12:07worry about offending anybody in this old town must be wonderful mr amberson
00:12:12mr minifer i mean what must be wonder to be so important as that oh that isn't important
00:12:18good evening anybody that really is anybody ought to be able to do about as they like in their
00:12:22own town i should think hello
00:12:26well how's that for a bit of freshness what was that queer looking duck waving his hand at me like
00:12:35he met me oh he did everybody seems to mean you
00:12:40see here are you engaged to anybody no certainly seem to know a good many people
00:12:49papa does he used to live here in this town before i was born
00:12:52where do you live now we've lived all over
00:12:55what do you keep moving around so far is he a promoter no he's an inventor
00:13:01oh what's he invented georgie grandfather
00:13:04just lately he's been working on a new kind of horseless carriage
00:13:08horseless carriage automobile well well don't you approve of them mr minifer
00:13:15oh yes they're all right you know i'm just beginning to understand understand what what
00:13:25what what it means to be a real amberson in this town papa told me something about it before we
00:13:31came but i see he didn't say half enough did your father say he knew the family before he left here
00:13:36i don't think he meant to boast of it he spoke of it quite calmly most girls are usually pretty fresh
00:13:42we ought to go to a man's college for about a year and get taught a few things about freshness
00:13:47look here who sent you those flowers you keep making such a fuss over lucy
00:13:52he did who's he the queer looking duck come for that dance
00:13:57oh him i suppose he's some old widower some old widower yes he is a widower i ought to have told you
00:14:05before he's my father oh well that's a horse on me if i'd known he was your
00:14:11this is our dad's better guess of what it says darling george dear are you enjoying the party
00:14:17yes mother very much will you please excuse us miss morgan
00:14:25eggnog anybody not for me sir i see you kept your promise gene isabel
00:14:31i remember the last drink gene ever had fact is i believe if you hadn't broken that big fiddle
00:14:37isabel never would have taken wilbur what do you think wilbur i shouldn't be surprised if your
00:14:42notion's right i'm glad gene broke the fiddle what do you say about it isabel my jingle he's blushing
00:14:53the important thing is that wilbur did get her and not only got her but kept her there's another
00:14:58important thing that is for me the fact it's the only thing that makes me forgive that base file for
00:15:03getting in my way well what's that lucy you having a good time i don't suppose you ever gave up
00:15:12smoking no sir well i've got some havana your ears burn young lady would you care for some refreshments
00:15:20miss morgan yes thanks what did you say your name was morgan funny name everybody else's name always is
00:15:30i didn't mean it was really funny that's just one of the crowd's bits of horsing at college i knew your
00:15:36last name was morgan i meant your first name lucy well is lucy a funny name too no lucy's very much
00:15:47all right thanks here they are here they are henry are they thanks for what thanks about letting my name be lucy
00:15:54goodbye i've got this dance with her with whom with isabel of course 18 years have passed but have
00:16:03they tell me if you dance with poor old fatty too this evening twice wilbur my gosh old times certainly
00:16:09are starting all times not a bit there aren't any old times but times are gone they're not old they're dead
00:16:14there aren't any times but new times
00:16:28what are you studying in school i beg your pardon what are you studying in school college college
00:16:34oh lots of useless guff why don't you study some useful guff what do you mean useful something you'd use
00:16:40later in your business or professional i don't intend to go any business or professional no no why not
00:16:47well just look at them it's a fine career for a man isn't it lawyers bankers politicians what do they
00:16:55ever get out of life i'd like to know what do they know about real things where do they ever get
00:17:01what do you want to be a yachtsman
00:17:15what's good are they how we break down they do not always break down of course they do
00:17:36horseless carriages automobiles hmm people aren't going to spend their lives lying on their backs in
00:17:42the road letting grease drip in their faces no i think your father better forget about them
00:17:48papa would be so grateful if he could have your advice i don't know that i've done anything to be
00:17:53insulted for you know i don't mind you being such a lofty person at all i think it's ever so
00:17:59interesting but papa's a great man easy well let us hope so i hope so i'm sure
00:18:13how lovely your mother is i think she is she's the gracefulest woman she dances like a girl of 16
00:18:20most girls of 16 are pretty bad dancers anyhow
00:18:25i wouldn't dance with one of them unless i had to
00:18:28uh the snow's fine for slaying i'll be by for you in the cutter 10 minutes after two
00:18:33tomorrow thank you isabelle i can't possibly bravo bravissimo papa lucy i'll get your thing
00:18:45if you don't i'm gonna sit in a cutter at your front gate and if you try to go out with anybody
00:18:48else he has to whip me before he gets to you hey you two i think you ought to take this in case you
00:18:52break down in that horseless carriage uncle jack good night isabelle come here fanny where are you
00:18:58going oh just out to look do you think you'll be warm enough well oh nothing here hold this who is
00:19:08this fellow morgan hi he's a man with a pretty daughter georgie certainly seems to feel awfully
00:19:16at home here the wave is dancing with mother and aunt fanny well i'm afraid your aunt fanny's heart
00:19:22was stirred by ancient recollections georgie you mean she used to be silly about him oh
00:19:29she wasn't considered uh singular he was uh he was popular oh do you take the same passionate
00:19:37interest to the parents of every girl you dance with oh dry up i only wanted to know lucy about that
00:19:44sleigh ride i want to look at that automobile carriage of yours gene i'm coming fanny you'll get
00:19:49a ride in that thing tomorrow i want to see if it's safe good night isabelle good night eugene
00:19:52you'll be ready ten minutes after two no i won't yes you will ten minutes after two
00:19:58honey oh good yes i will come on gene show us how it works if it does work i suppose you'll break
00:20:07down come on lucy i'm coming papa i hope you're going to be warm enough
00:20:11like it for you george hi hi hi papa you think george is terribly arrogant and domineering
00:20:27uh oh he's still only a boy
00:20:32plenty of fried stuff in here can't help but be he's isabel lamberson's son
00:20:42you liked her pretty well once i guess papa
00:20:44okay do still i know that isn't all that's worrying well several things i've been a little
00:20:53bothered about your father too why it seems to me he looks so badly he isn't any different than
00:20:59the way he's looked all his life that i can see he's been worried about some investments he made last
00:21:03year i think the worries affected his health what investments see here he isn't going into morgan's
00:21:10automobile concern is he oh no the automobile concern is all eugene's no your father's rolling mills
00:21:18hello dear have you had trouble sleeping look here father
00:21:23not this man morgan and his old sewing machine doesn't he want to get grandfather to put some
00:21:27money into it isn't that what he's up to you little silly what on earth are you talking about
00:21:33eugene morgan's perfectly able to finance his own inventions these days i'll bet he bars money
00:21:38from uncle jack georgie why do you say such a thing just strikes me as that sort of a man
00:21:43isn't he father he was a fairly wild young fellow 20 years ago he's like you in one thing georgie
00:21:49he spent too much money only he didn't have any mother to get money out of a grandfather for him
00:21:54but i believe he's done fairly well of late years and i doubt if he needs anybody else's money to
00:21:58back this horseless carriage well what's he brought the old thing here for then i'm sure i don't know
00:22:03you want to ask him i'll begin to say good night dear aunt fanny what in the world's the matter with
00:22:13you i suppose you don't know why father doesn't want to go on that horse's carriage trip tomorrow
00:22:19what do you mean you're his only sister and yet you don't know
00:22:23no he he never wants to go anywhere that i ever heard of what is the matter with you he doesn't
00:22:33want to go because he doesn't like this man morgan oh good gracious eugene morgan isn't in your father's
00:22:39thoughts at all one way or the other why should he be good night good night hey you're too at it again
00:22:45what makes you and everybody so excited over this man morgan excited oh shut up can't can't people be
00:22:54glad to see an old friend without silly children like you having to make a to-do about it
00:23:03i've just been suggesting to your mother that she might give a little dinner for them for who
00:23:08for whom georgie for whom georgie for mr morgan and his daughter oh look here don't do that mother
00:23:22mustn't do that i mustn't do that wouldn't look well wouldn't look
00:23:29see here georgie minifer i suggest
00:23:32that you just march straight on into your room sometimes you say things that show you have a
00:23:39pretty mean little mom what upsets you this much shut up i know what you mean you're trying to
00:23:46insinuate that i'd get your mother to invite eugene morgan here on my account i'm gonna move to a hotel
00:23:51because he's a werewolf what what
00:23:57i'm trying to insinuate that you're setting your cap for him and getting mother to help you
00:24:02oh is that what you mean
00:24:09you attend your own affair well i will be shot i will i certainly will be shot
00:24:18oh
00:24:28do you think you'll get it to start
00:24:31what's wrong with it jean i wish i do
00:24:51what's wrong with it
00:25:02come on
00:25:15come on
00:25:17come on jack get a horse
00:25:19get a horse
00:25:21get a horse
00:25:23look out lucy
00:25:29oh what's happened to them
00:25:31oh georgie get inside
00:25:36are you all right
00:25:45they're all right isabel the snow bags of feather bear
00:25:47georgie
00:25:52oh georgie they're all right isabel
00:25:54are you sure you're not hurt lucy dear
00:25:56georgie don't make a fuss mother
00:25:58george that terrible fall please mother please
00:26:01i'm all right
00:26:02are you sure georgie sometimes one doesn't realize the shock
00:26:05oh you've just got to be sure dear
00:26:08that's right
00:26:17that darn horse
00:26:19and dennis will be home long before we will
00:26:21all we've got to depend on is jean morgan's broken down chafing
00:26:24the
00:26:38for goodness sakes gideon you're standing in the snow yourself
00:26:40get in mother
00:26:41you're the same isabel i used to know you're a divinely ridiculous woman george
00:26:47you'll push up and get started won't you
00:26:50push divinely and ridiculous just counterbalance each other don't they
00:26:54plus one and minus one equal nothing so you mean i'm nothing in
00:26:59particular no that doesn't seem to be precisely what i've meant
00:27:17come on georgie push i'm pushing
00:27:24what do you think i'm doing
00:27:45your father wanted to prove that his horse's carriage would run even in the snow
00:27:53it really does too
00:27:54oh it's so interesting
00:27:57he says he's going to have wheels all made of rubber
00:28:00and blown up with air
00:28:02i should think that it's flown
00:28:03oh he seems very confident
00:28:07oh it seems so like old times to hear him talk
00:28:09i am a man who broke the bank in the morning car
00:28:23as i walked along the border
00:28:29and i can't hear them
00:28:31i can't hear them
00:28:32i can't hear them
00:28:32I knew you were doing that. It was nice of you.
00:28:35Wasn't much of a foe to speak of. How about that kiss?
00:29:02How about that kiss?
00:29:32How about that kiss?
00:30:02Wilbur Millifer, quiet man.
00:30:20The town will hardly know he's gone.
00:30:32Where did Isabel go to?
00:30:36She was tired.
00:30:38Never was be coming to her to look pale.
00:30:41Look out.
00:30:43Oh, boy.
00:30:44It's over a shortcake.
00:30:46It's the first of the season.
00:30:48I hope it's big enough.
00:30:50You might know I'm coming home.
00:30:53What'd you say?
00:30:55Nothing.
00:30:59Sweet enough?
00:31:01It's fine.
00:31:05I suppose your mother's been pretty gay at the commencement.
00:31:10Going a lot?
00:31:12How could she in the morning?
00:31:14All she could do was sit around and look gone.
00:31:16That's all Lucy could do either for that night.
00:31:18How did Lucy get home?
00:31:20On the train with the rest of us.
00:31:23Quit holding your food.
00:31:31Did you drive out to their house with her before you came here?
00:31:39No.
00:31:40She went home with her father.
00:31:44Oh, I see.
00:31:46Don't eat so fast, George.
00:31:49So, uh...
00:31:52Eugene came to the station to meet you?
00:31:58Meet us?
00:32:01How could he?
00:32:04I don't know what you mean.
00:32:12Want some more milk?
00:32:13No, Hans.
00:32:18I haven't seen him while your mother's been away.
00:32:21Naturally.
00:32:22He's beneath himself.
00:32:24Did you see him?
00:32:26Naturally, since he made the trip home with us.
00:32:29He did.
00:32:30He was with you all the time?
00:32:33Uh-uh.
00:32:34Only on the train in the last three days before we left.
00:32:37Uncle Jack got him to come along.
00:32:39You're gonna get fat.
00:32:41I can't help that.
00:32:43You're such a wonderful housekeeper.
00:32:46You certainly know how to make things taste good.
00:32:49Hmm.
00:32:50I don't think you'd say single very long if some of these bachelors
00:32:53or widowers around town could just want...
00:32:55It's a little odd.
00:32:59What's on?
00:33:01Your mother's not mentioning that Mr. Morgan had been with you.
00:33:04Didn't think of it, I suppose.
00:33:06But I'll tell you something in confidence.
00:33:08What?
00:33:09Well, it struck me that Mr. Morgan was looking pretty absent-minded
00:33:12most of the time.
00:33:13And he certainly is dressing better than he used to.
00:33:15Oh, he...
00:33:16He isn't dressing better, he's dressing up.
00:33:18Fanny, you ought to be a little encouraging when a...
00:33:23prized bachelor begins to show by his haberdashery.
00:33:26What do you want you to think about him?
00:33:28Jack tells me the fact he's been doing quite well.
00:33:30Quite well?
00:33:31Honestly, Aunt Fanny...
00:33:32Why, listen, Eugene...
00:33:33I should be a bit surprised to have him request an interview
00:33:35and declare that his intentions are honorable.
00:33:37And that's my permission to pay his addresses to you.
00:33:39What'd I better tell him?
00:33:43Oh, Aunt Fanny.
00:33:44Oh, Fanny, we were only teasing.
00:33:46Oh, let me alone.
00:33:47Please, Fanny.
00:33:48We didn't mean anything.
00:33:49Let go of me.
00:33:50Please.
00:33:51We didn't know you got so sensitive as all this.
00:34:02It's getting so you can't joke with her about anything anymore.
00:34:06No, it'll be again when we found out Father's estate was all washed up
00:34:10and he didn't leave anything.
00:34:13I thought you'd feel better when we turned over his insurance to her.
00:34:15Gave it to her absolutely without any strings to it.
00:34:20But now...
00:34:22I don't know.
00:34:23Yeah.
00:34:27I think maybe we've been teasing her about the wrong things.
00:34:32And he hasn't got much in her life.
00:34:35You know, George, just being an odd isn't really the great career it may sometimes seem to be.
00:34:48I really don't know of anything much Fanny has got.
00:34:52Except her feeling about Eugene.
00:34:53They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:34:54Isn't that marvelous?
00:34:55What's marvelous?
00:34:56They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:34:57Oh!
00:34:58They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:34:59What's marvelous?
00:35:00They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:35:01Oh!
00:35:02Mother!
00:35:03Mother!
00:35:04That is.
00:35:05All this noise and smell seems to be good for you.
00:35:06I think you ought to come here every time you get the blues.
00:35:07Oh, she never gets the blues, George.
00:35:08I never knew a person of a more easy disposition.
00:35:09Oh, it's this place.
00:35:10I wish I could be more like that.
00:35:11Wouldn't anybody be delighted to see an old friend take an idea out of the air like that?
00:35:13An idea most people laughed at him for.
00:35:14And turn it into such a splendid humming thing as this factory.
00:35:15What?
00:35:16What?
00:35:17They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:35:18What?
00:35:19They're turning out a car in a quarter a day.
00:35:20Oh!
00:35:21So very, very happy.
00:35:22Just look at the morning.
00:35:23I never knew a person of a more easy disposition.
00:35:24No, it's this place.
00:35:25I wish I could be more like that.
00:35:26Wouldn't anybody be delighted to see an old friend take an idea out of the air like
00:35:30that?
00:35:31An idea most people laughed at him for.
00:35:33And turn it into such a splendid humming thing as this factory.
00:35:36Remember this?
00:35:38Our first machine.
00:35:41The original Morgan Invincible.
00:35:43I remember.
00:35:45How quaint.
00:35:47Of course I'm happy.
00:35:49So very, very happy.
00:35:50Just look at the Morgan now, Mrs. Minifer.
00:35:52It's beautiful.
00:35:54Just beautiful.
00:35:56Did you ever see anything so lovely?
00:35:58As what?
00:35:59As your mother.
00:36:00She's a darling.
00:36:02And Papa looks as if he were going to either explode or utter loud sobs.
00:36:06It's just glorious.
00:36:08It makes us all happy, Eugene.
00:36:11Give him your hand, Fanny.
00:36:13There.
00:36:14If Brother Jack were here, Eugene would have his three oldest and best friends congratulating him
00:36:19all at once.
00:36:20We know what Brother Jack thinks about it, though.
00:36:25I used to write verse about 20 years ago.
00:36:28Remember that?
00:36:29I remember that, too.
00:36:31I'm almost thinking I could do it again.
00:36:35To thank you for making a factory visit into such a kind celebration.
00:36:40Isabel, dear.
00:36:41Yes, Eugene?
00:36:42Don't you think you should tell George?
00:36:43About us?
00:36:44Yes.
00:36:45There's still time.
00:36:46I think he should hear it from you.
00:36:47He will, dearest.
00:36:48Soon.
00:36:49Soon.
00:36:50Soon.
00:36:51Soon.
00:36:52Soon.
00:36:53What do you want to tell George?
00:36:56About us?
00:36:57Yes.
00:37:00There's still time.
00:37:03I think he should hear it from you.
00:37:06He will, dearest.
00:37:10Soon.
00:37:14Soon.
00:37:24I'll still take a horse any day.
00:37:33Oh.
00:37:34Oh, don't.
00:37:35Why?
00:37:36You want him to trot his legs off?
00:37:37No, but...
00:37:38Oh, but what?
00:37:40I know when you make him walk,
00:37:41it's so he can give all your attention to proposing to me again.
00:37:44George, do let Pendennis trot again.
00:37:46I won't.
00:37:47Get up, Pendennis.
00:37:48Go on.
00:37:49Trot.
00:37:50Commence.
00:37:51Lucy, if you are the prettiest thing in this world,
00:37:54when are you going to say we're really engaged?
00:37:58Not for years.
00:37:59So there's the answer.
00:38:02Lucy.
00:38:03Dear, what's the matter?
00:38:05Look as if you're going to cry.
00:38:08You always do that whenever I can get you to talk about marrying me.
00:38:12I know it.
00:38:13Well, why do you?
00:38:15One reason is because I have a feeling it's never going to be.
00:38:19You haven't any reason or...
00:38:20It's just a feeling.
00:38:23I don't know.
00:38:25Everything's so unsettled.
00:38:27Why the queerest girl?
00:38:29What's unsettled?
00:38:31Well, for one thing, George,
00:38:32you haven't decided on anything to do yet.
00:38:34Or at least if you have, you've never spoken of it.
00:38:37Lucy, haven't you perfectly well understood
00:38:39that I don't intend to go into a business or adopt a profession?
00:38:43What are you going to do, George?
00:38:44Why, I expect to lead an honorable life.
00:38:48I expect to contribute my share to charities
00:38:51and to take part in, well, in movements.
00:38:53What kind?
00:38:54Whatever appeals to me.
00:38:56I should like to revert to the questions I was asking you, if you don't mind.
00:38:59No, George. I think we'd better...
00:39:00Your father's a businessman.
00:39:02He's a mechanical genius.
00:39:04It's your father's idea.
00:39:05Isn't it your father's idea that I have to go into a business
00:39:07and you oughtn't to be engaged to me until I do?
00:39:09No.
00:39:10I've never once spoken to him about it.
00:39:12But you know that's the way he does feel about it.
00:39:14Yes.
00:39:16Do you think that I'd be very much of a man
00:39:18if I let another man dictate to me my own way of life?
00:39:21George, who's dictating your way of life?
00:39:22I don't believe in the whole world scrubbing dishes,
00:39:26or selling potatoes, or trying law cases.
00:39:31No, I dare say I don't care any more for your father's ideals
00:39:34than he does for mine.
00:39:35George?
00:39:36Get up, Ben Dennis.
00:39:41Well, seems to have recovered.
00:39:44Looks in the highest good spirits.
00:39:46I beg for him.
00:39:47Your grandson.
00:39:49Last night he seemed inclined to melancholy.
00:39:52What about?
00:39:55Not getting remorseful about all the money he spent at college, is he?
00:40:00I wonder what he thinks I'm made of.
00:40:03Gold.
00:40:05And he's right about that part of you, father.
00:40:07What part?
00:40:08Your heart.
00:40:11I suppose that may account for how heavy it feels nowadays, sometimes.
00:40:16This town seems to be rolling right over that old heart you mentioned just now, Jack.
00:40:22Rolling over it and burying it under.
00:40:25I miss my best girl.
00:40:26We all do.
00:40:27Lucy's on a visit, father.
00:40:28She's spending a week with a school friend.
00:40:29She'll be back Monday.
00:40:30Oh.
00:40:31George, how does it happen you didn't tell us before?
00:40:33He never said a word to us about Lucy's going away.
00:40:34Probably afraid to.
00:40:36He didn't know what he might break down and cry if he tried to speak of it.
00:40:38Isn't that so, Georgie?
00:40:39Or didn't Lucy tell you she was going?
00:40:40She told me.
00:40:42At any rate, Georgie didn't approve.
00:40:43I suppose you two are speaking again.
00:40:46Gene, what's this I hear about someone else opening up a horseless carriage shop somewhere
00:41:02out in the suburbs?
00:41:03Oh, I suppose you two are speaking again.
00:41:05Oh, I suppose I say you're not saying that one's coming up in the suburbs.
00:41:08Ah, I suppose they'll drive you out of business,
00:41:11or else the two of you will get together
00:41:13and drive all the rest of us off to the streets.
00:41:15Well, we'll even things up by making the streets bigger.
00:41:18Automobiles will carry our streets clear out to the county line.
00:41:22Well, I hope you're wrong,
00:41:23because if people go to moving that far,
00:41:25real estate values here in the old residence part of town
00:41:28will be stretched pretty thin.
00:41:30So your devilish machines are going to ruin all your old friends, eh, Gene?
00:41:34Do you really think they're going to change the face of the land?
00:41:37They're already doing it, Major, and it can't be stopped.
00:41:40Automobiles...
00:41:41Automobiles are a useless nuisance.
00:41:46What did you say, George?
00:41:48I said automobiles are a useless nuisance.
00:41:51Never amount to anything but a nuisance,
00:41:53and they had no business to be invented.
00:41:55Of course, you forget Mr. Morgan makes them.
00:41:57Also, did they share in inventing them?
00:42:00If you weren't so thoughtless, he might think you rather offensive.
00:42:04I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles.
00:42:09With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.
00:42:15Maybe that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of man's souls.
00:42:21I'm not sure.
00:42:23But automobiles have come.
00:42:26Almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring.
00:42:31They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace.
00:42:36And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles.
00:42:41And it may be that George is right.
00:42:45It may be that in 10 or 20 years from now,
00:42:48if we can see the inward change in men by that time,
00:42:52I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine,
00:42:54but would have to agree with George
00:42:56that automobiles had no business to be invented.
00:43:00Well, Major, if you'll excuse me, Danny.
00:43:14Oh, Eugene.
00:43:15Isabel, we've got to run down to the shop and speak for the foreman.
00:43:18I'll see you to the door.
00:43:20Don't bother, Sarah. Another way.
00:43:21I'll come too.
00:43:30George, dear, what did you mean?
00:43:43Just what I said.
00:43:46He was hurt.
00:43:48I don't see why he should be.
00:43:50Didn't say anything about him.
00:43:52Seemed to me to be hurt. He seemed perfectly cheerful.
00:43:55What made you think he was hurt?
00:43:58I know him.
00:44:09By Jove, Georgie, you are a puzzle.
00:44:11In what way, may I ask?
00:44:13Well, it's a new style of courting a pretty girl,
00:44:15I must say, for a young fellow to go deliberately out of his way
00:44:18to try and make an enemy of a father by attacking his business.
00:44:22By Jove.
00:44:24It's a new way of winning a woman.
00:44:28George, you've struck just the right treatment to adopt.
00:44:30You're doing just the right thing.
00:44:31Oh, what do you want?
00:44:32Your father would thank you if he could see what you're doing.
00:44:33Quit the mysterious detective business.
00:44:34You make me dizzy.
00:44:35You don't care to hear that I approve of what you're doing?
00:44:36For the gosh sakes, what in the world is wrong with you?
00:44:37Oh, you're always picking on me. Always.
00:44:38Ever since you were a little boy.
00:44:39Oh, my gosh.
00:44:40You wouldn't treat anybody in the world like this except old Fanny.
00:44:43Old Fanny, you say. It's nobody but old Fanny, so I'll kick her.
00:44:46Nobody will resent it. I'll kick her all I want to.
00:44:48And you're right.
00:44:49I haven't got anything in the world since my brother died.
00:44:50Nobody. Nothing.
00:44:51Oh, my gosh.
00:44:52I never, never in the world would have told you about it
00:44:53or even made the faintest reference to it.
00:44:54I'd like to thank you if you could see what you're doing.
00:44:55Thank you if you could see what you're doing.
00:44:56Quit the mysterious detective business.
00:44:57Quit the mysterious detective business.
00:44:58You make me dizzy.
00:44:59You don't care to hear that I approve of what you're doing?
00:45:01You're right.
00:45:02I haven't got anything in the world since my brother died.
00:45:04Nobody. Nothing.
00:45:05Oh, my gosh.
00:45:06I never, never in the world would have told you about it
00:45:08or even made the faintest reference to it
00:45:10if I hadn't seen that somebody else had told you
00:45:12or you found out for yourself in some way.
00:45:13Somebody else had told me what?
00:45:15How people are talking about your mother.
00:45:24What did you say?
00:45:25Of course, I understood what you were doing
00:45:27when you started being rude to Eugene.
00:45:29I knew you'd give Lucy up in a minute
00:45:31if it came to a question of your mother's reputation
00:45:33because you said it.
00:45:34Look here.
00:45:35Just what do you mean?
00:45:36I only wanted to say that I'm sorry for you, George.
00:45:39That's all.
00:45:40But it's only old Fanny,
00:45:42so whatever she says, pick on her for it.
00:45:44Hammer her.
00:45:45Hammer her.
00:45:46Jack said.
00:45:47It's only poor old only Fanny.
00:45:48Jack said that if there was any gossip,
00:45:50it was about you.
00:45:51He said people might be laughing
00:45:52about the way you ran after Morgan,
00:45:53but that was all.
00:45:54Oh, yes.
00:45:55It's always Fanny.
00:45:56Ridiculous old Fanny.
00:45:57Always, always.
00:45:58Listen.
00:45:59You said mother let him come here just on your account,
00:46:01and now you say.
00:46:02I did.
00:46:03Anyhow, he liked to dance with me.
00:46:05He danced with me as much as he did with her.
00:46:07You told me mother never saw him
00:46:08except when she was chaperoning you.
00:46:09Well, you don't suppose that stops people from talking,
00:46:11do you?
00:46:12They just thought I didn't count.
00:46:15It's only Fanny Minifer, I suppose they'd say.
00:46:18Besides, everybody knew he'd been engaged to her.
00:46:21What's that?
00:46:22Everybody knows it.
00:46:23Everybody in this town knows that Isabelle
00:46:25never really cared for any other man in her life.
00:46:27I believe I'm going crazy.
00:46:29You mean you lied when you told me there wasn't any talk?
00:46:31It never would have amounted to anything if Wilbert lived.
00:46:33You mean Morgan might have married you?
00:46:35No.
00:46:36Because I don't know that I'd have accepted him.
00:46:39Are you trying to tell me that because he comes here
00:46:42and they see her with him driving and all that,
00:46:44they think that they were right in saying that she was,
00:46:47she was in love with him before?
00:46:49Before my father died?
00:46:51Why, George, don't you know that's what they say?
00:46:55You must know that everybody in town...
00:46:58Who told you?
00:46:59What?
00:47:00Who told you there was talk?
00:47:01Where is this talk?
00:47:02Where does it come from?
00:47:03Who does it?
00:47:04I suppose pretty much everybody I know is pretty general.
00:47:05Who said so?
00:47:06What?
00:47:07How did you get hold of it?
00:47:08Why, I hardly think it would be fair to give names.
00:47:10Look here.
00:47:11One of your best friends is that mother of Charlie Johnson's across the way.
00:47:13Has she ever mentioned this to you?
00:47:15She may have intimated it.
00:47:16You and she have been talking to you about it.
00:47:17Do you deny it?
00:47:18Why, George, do you deny it?
00:47:19She's a very kind, discreet woman, George, but she may have intimated it.
00:47:22George!
00:47:25What are you going to do, George?
00:47:28Mr. Amberson.
00:47:30I mean, Mr. Minifer.
00:47:32Won't you come in, please?
00:47:35Well, how nice to see you, Mr. Minifer.
00:47:37Mrs. Johnson?
00:47:42Mrs. Johnson, I've come to ask you a few questions.
00:47:45Certainly, Mr. Minifer. Anything I can do for you.
00:47:48I don't mean to waste any time, Mrs. Johnson.
00:47:51You...
00:47:52You were talking about a...
00:47:54A scandal that involved my mother's name.
00:47:56Mr. Minifer!
00:47:57My aunt told me you repeated this scandal to her.
00:48:00I don't think your aunt can have said that.
00:48:03We may have discussed some few matters that have been a topic of comment about town.
00:48:08Yes, I think you may have.
00:48:10Other people may be less considerate.
00:48:12Other people?
00:48:13That's what I want to know about.
00:48:14These other people.
00:48:15How many?
00:48:16How many?
00:48:17What?
00:48:18How many other people talk about it?
00:48:19Really, this isn't a courtroom.
00:48:21And I'm not a defendant in a liable suit.
00:48:24You may be.
00:48:25I want to know just who's dared to say these things if I have to force my way into every house in town.
00:48:29I mean to know just who told you these...
00:48:30You mean to know.
00:48:32Well, you'll know something pretty quick.
00:48:34You'll know that you're out in the street.
00:48:36Pleased to leave my house.
00:48:46Oh.
00:48:48Now you have done it.
00:48:49What have I done that wasn't honorable and right?
00:48:51Oh.
00:48:52Do you think these riffraps can go around town banning my mother's good name?
00:48:55They can now.
00:48:56Georgie, gossip's never fatal till it's denied.
00:48:59If you think I'm gonna let my mother's good name be...
00:49:01Good name.
00:49:02No...
00:49:03Nobody has a good name and a bad mouth.
00:49:05Nobody has a good name and a silly mouth either.
00:49:07Don't you understand me when I told you people are saying my mother means to marry this man?
00:49:11Yes, yes, I understood you.
00:49:12Great gosh.
00:49:13You speak of it so commonly.
00:49:14Why shouldn't they marry if they want to?
00:49:15Why shouldn't they?
00:49:16Why shouldn't they?
00:49:17Why shouldn't they?
00:49:18Yes, why shouldn't they?
00:49:19Well, that you can sit there and speak of it.
00:49:22Your own sister.
00:49:23Oh, for heaven's sake.
00:49:24Don't be so theatrical.
00:49:26Come back here.
00:49:35I'll see who it is and what they want.
00:49:36Probably it's only a peddlery.
00:49:37Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:38Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:39Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:40Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:42I don't know anything about that.
00:49:43You can see what they want.
00:49:47Can you see him, Mr. George?
00:49:48They'll see who it is and what they want.
00:49:50Probably it's only a peddlery.
00:49:51Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:52I'll see who it is and what they want.
00:49:54Probably it's only a peddlery.
00:49:56Thank you, Mr. George.
00:49:58Good afternoon, George.
00:50:00Your mother expects to go driving with me, I believe.
00:50:02If you'll be so kind as to send her word I'm here.
00:50:04No.
00:50:06No.
00:50:08No.
00:50:10No.
00:50:12No.
00:50:14No.
00:50:16No.
00:50:18No.
00:50:20No.
00:50:21I beg your pardon, I said...
00:50:23I heard you.
00:50:24You said you had an engagement with my mother and I said no.
00:50:27What's the matter?
00:50:29My mother will have no interest in knowing that you came here today.
00:50:32Or any other day.
00:50:34I'm afraid I don't understand you.
00:50:35I doubt if I can make it much plainer.
00:50:37But I'll try.
00:50:39You're not wanted in this house, Mr. Morgan.
00:50:41Now or at any other time.
00:50:43Perhaps you'll understand this.
00:50:51I don't understand this house.
00:50:53I don't know why it's a lie.
00:50:54You're not a lie.
00:50:55You're not a lie.
00:50:56We can only be a lie.
00:50:58You're taking the night a lot.
00:50:59You're not a lie.
00:51:01No.
00:51:03No.
00:51:04No.
00:51:05No.
00:51:06No.
00:51:07No.
00:51:08No.
00:51:09No.
00:51:10No.
00:51:11No.
00:51:12No.
00:51:13No.
00:51:14No.
00:51:15Isabel?
00:51:16Yes?
00:51:17I've just come to Eugene.
00:51:30Yes?
00:51:31I want to talk to you.
00:51:45Well, I could just guess what that was about.
00:52:07He's telling me what you did to Eugene.
00:52:09You go back to your room.
00:52:10You're not going in there.
00:52:11You go back to your room.
00:52:12George!
00:52:13George!
00:52:15No, you don't, George.
00:52:16You keep away from there.
00:52:17You let go.
00:52:18I won't come back here and let them alone.
00:52:20All of me.
00:52:21Hush up, hush up.
00:52:22Go on to the top of the stairs.
00:52:24Go out.
00:52:34It's indecent.
00:52:36It's like squabbling outside the door of an operating room.
00:52:40The idea of you going in there now.
00:52:43Jack's telling Isabel the whole thing.
00:52:45Now you stay here and let him tell her.
00:52:47He's got some consideration for her.
00:52:49I suppose you think I haven't.
00:52:50You considerate of anybody.
00:52:51I'm considerate of a good now.
00:52:53Look here.
00:52:54Seems to me you're taking a pretty different tack.
00:52:56I thought you already knew everything I did.
00:52:58I was just suffering so I wanted to let out a little.
00:53:02Oh, I was a fool.
00:53:04Eugene never would have looked at me even if he'd never seen Isabel.
00:53:08And they haven't done any harm.
00:53:11She made Wilbur happy.
00:53:14She was a true wife to him as long as he lived.
00:53:17Honey, here I go, not doing myself a bit of goodbye and just ruining them.
00:53:23You told me how all the riff-raff in town were busy with her name.
00:53:26And the minute I lift my hand to protect her, you attack me and...
00:53:29Shh!
00:53:30Your uncle's leaving.
00:53:31I'll be back, Isabel.
00:53:32George!
00:53:33Leave her alone.
00:53:34She's down there by herself.
00:53:35Don't go down.
00:53:38Leave her alone.
00:53:39Leave her alone.
00:53:44All right, see if she comes on.
00:53:47Come on.
00:53:57Please come back.
00:54:02Take him.
00:54:07We and?
00:54:09Don't seize the poke yourself, open?
00:54:12Dearest one, yesterday I thought the time had come when I could ask you to marry me,
00:54:23and you were dear enough to tell me sometime it might come to that.
00:54:28But now we're faced, not with slander,
00:54:31and not with our own fear of it, because we haven't any,
00:54:36but someone else's fear of it, your son's.
00:54:40Oh, dearest woman in the world, I know what your son is to you, and it frightens me.
00:54:47Let me explain a little.
00:54:49I don't think he'll change.
00:54:52At 21 or 22, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible,
00:54:58which Forty sees in nothing but disappearing miasma.
00:55:02Forty can't tell 20 about this.
00:55:0620 can find out only by getting to be 40.
00:55:10And so we come to this, dear.
00:55:13Will you live your life, your way, or George's way?
00:55:19Dear, it breaks my heart for you,
00:55:21but what you have to oppose now
00:55:23is the history of your own selfless and perfect motherhood.
00:55:29Are you strong enough, Isabel?
00:55:31Can you make a fight?
00:55:32I promise you that if you will take heart for it,
00:55:48you will find so quickly that it's all amounted to nothing.
00:55:53You shall have happiness, and only happiness.
00:55:56I'm saying too much for wisdom, I fear.
00:56:02But, oh, my dear, won't you be strong?
00:56:05Such a little, short strength it would need.
00:56:15Don't strike my wife down twice, dear.
00:56:18This time I've not deserved it.
00:56:20Come in.
00:56:43Come in.
00:56:43Did you read it, dear?
00:56:58Yes, I did.
00:57:03All of it?
00:57:08Yes.
00:57:09Well, what do you think, Georgie?
00:57:18What do you mean?
00:57:20You can see how fair he means to be.
00:57:23Fair?
00:57:26Fair when he says that he and you don't care what people say.
00:57:29What people say?
00:57:32That Eugene loves me?
00:57:33He's always loved you.
00:57:39That's true, Georgie.
00:57:45But you're my mother.
00:57:48You're an Amberson.
00:57:50You just...
00:57:52Yes, dear?
00:58:06I don't know, mother.
00:58:09You're an Amberson.
00:58:29All right, Eugene.
00:58:34You'll understand.
00:58:36You'll wait.
00:58:37It will be better this way.
00:58:45We'll go away for a while, you and I.
00:58:53Hello.
00:59:00Lucy, you... haven't you...
00:59:03Haven't I what?
00:59:06Nothing.
00:59:08May I walk with you a little ways?
00:59:09Yes, indeed.
00:59:21I want to talk to you, Lucy.
00:59:23Hope it's about something nice.
00:59:24Papa's been so glum today, he's scarcely spoken to me.
00:59:27Well...
00:59:28Is it a funny story?
00:59:29It may seem like one to you.
00:59:31Just to begin with...
00:59:33When you, in a way, you didn't let me know.
00:59:35Not a word.
00:59:36Not even a line.
00:59:37Why, no.
00:59:38I just trotted off for some visits.
00:59:40At least you might have done something.
00:59:42I know, George.
00:59:43Don't you remember?
00:59:44We'd had a quarrel.
00:59:45We didn't speak to each other all the way home from a long, long drive.
00:59:48And since we couldn't play together like good children...
00:59:51Of course, it was plain that we oughtn't to play at all.
00:59:54Play?
00:59:55What I mean is...
00:59:57We'd come to the point where it was time to quit playing.
01:00:00Well...
01:00:01What we were playing.
01:00:03That being lovers you mean, don't you?
01:00:05Something like that.
01:00:06It was absurd.
01:00:07It didn't have to be absurd.
01:00:09No, it couldn't help but be.
01:00:11The way I am and the way you are.
01:00:13It would never be anything else.
01:00:15This time I'm going away.
01:00:17That's what I wanted to tell you, Lucy.
01:00:20I'm going away tomorrow night.
01:00:22Indefinitely.
01:00:24I hope you have every so nice a time, George.
01:00:26I don't expect to have a particularly nice time.
01:00:29Well then, if I were you, I don't think I'd go.
01:00:32This is our last walk together, Lucy.
01:00:36Evidently, if you're going away tomorrow night.
01:00:39This is the last time I'll see you.
01:00:42Ever.
01:00:43Ever in my life.
01:00:45Mother and I are starting on a trip around the world tomorrow.
01:00:49We've made no plans at all for coming back.
01:00:52My, that does sound like a long trip.
01:00:54Do you plan to be traveling all the time,
01:00:56or will you stay in one place for the greater part of it?
01:00:58I think it'd be lovely...
01:00:59Lucy.
01:01:00To...
01:01:01I can't stand this.
01:01:03I'm just about ready to go in that day.
01:01:05I'm just about ready to go in that drug store there,
01:01:07and ask the clerk to give me something to keep me from dying in my tracks.
01:01:09It's quite a shock, Lucy.
01:01:11What is?
01:01:12To find out just how deeply you've cared.
01:01:15To see how much difference this makes to you.
01:01:17George.
01:01:18I can't stand this any longer.
01:01:20I can't, Lucy.
01:01:26Goodbye, Lucy.
01:01:30It's goodbye.
01:01:35I think it's goodbye for good, Lucy.
01:01:36Goodbye, George.
01:01:37I do hope you have the most splendid trip.
01:01:38Give my love to your mother.
01:01:42May I please have a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia,
01:01:45and a glass of wine,
01:01:46and a glass of wine,
01:01:47and a glass of wine,
01:01:48and a glass of wine,
01:01:49and a glass of wine.
01:01:50I think it's goodbye for good, Lucy.
01:01:51Goodbye, George.
01:01:52I do hope you have the most splendid trip.
01:01:53Give my love to your mother.
01:01:54while she's drinking water.
01:01:55Thank you, Lucy.
01:02:01I'm here to get a coffee tonight
01:02:02with a nice coffee shop.
01:02:03Well, it's right.
01:02:04We'll have a coffee shop.
01:02:05Old Sammy.
01:02:09May I please have a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia,
01:02:10and a glass of wine?
01:02:11May I please have a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia,
01:02:14and a glass of water?
01:02:16For gosh's sake, miss.
01:02:18For my God's sake, Miss.
01:02:29It's very nice of you, Lucy.
01:02:31You and Eugene to have me over to your new house my first day back.
01:02:35You'll probably find the old town rather dull after Paris.
01:02:43I...
01:02:44found Isabelle as well as usual.
01:02:49Only I'm afraid as usual isn't...
01:02:53particularly well.
01:02:57Struck me Isabelle ought to be in a wheelchair.
01:03:01What do you mean by that?
01:03:04Oh, she's cheerful enough, at least...
01:03:08she manages to seem so.
01:03:11She's pretty short of breath.
01:03:14Her father's been that way for years, of course, but...
01:03:19never nearly so much as Isabelle is now.
01:03:23I told her I thought she ought to make Georgie let her come home.
01:03:26Let her?
01:03:28Does she want to?
01:03:31She doesn't urge it.
01:03:34George seems to like the life there in his grand, gloomy and peculiar way.
01:03:41She'll never change about being proud of him and all that.
01:03:45It's quite a swell.
01:03:46She does want to come.
01:03:50She'd like to be with father, of course, and I think she's...
01:03:56Well...
01:03:58She intimated one day that she was afraid it might even happen.
01:04:03She wouldn't get to see him again.
01:04:04She wouldn't get to see him again.
01:04:08I think she was really thinking of her own state of health.
01:04:13I see.
01:04:17And you say he won't let her come home.
01:04:19Well...
01:04:22I don't think he uses force.
01:04:26He's very gentle with her.
01:04:29Doubt if the subject is mentioned between them.
01:04:31Yet...
01:04:34Yet knowing my interesting nephew as you do...
01:04:38Wouldn't you think that was about the way to put it?
01:04:43Knowing him as I do?
01:04:46Yes.
01:04:49I don't think so.
01:05:07Changed.
01:05:10So changed.
01:05:12You mean...
01:05:14You mean the town?
01:05:16You mean the old place has changed, don't you, dear?
01:05:18Yes.
01:05:20It'll change to a happier place, old dear, now that you're back at it.
01:05:23It's going to get well again.
01:05:29Mr. Jones will be right down, Mr. Morton.
01:05:48I've come to see your mother, George.
01:06:00I'm sorry, Mr. Morgan.
01:06:06Not this time, George.
01:06:08I'm going up to see her.
01:06:10The doctor said that...
01:06:12She had to be kept quiet.
01:06:15I'll be quiet.
01:06:21I don't think you should right now.
01:06:24The doctor said...
01:06:26The doctor said...
01:06:30Fanny's right, Jean.
01:06:36Why don't you come back later?
01:06:37I'll be back later.
01:06:38I'll be back later.
01:06:40The doctor said...
01:06:42I'll be back now.
01:06:44I'll be back later.
01:06:46And he's back.
01:06:47You would be going to...
01:07:01You're not going to be back tonight.
01:07:02I'll be back tomorrow.
01:07:04All right.
01:07:17She wants to see you.
01:07:33Come on.
01:07:51Darling, did you get something to eat?
01:07:54Yes, Mother.
01:07:56All you need is?
01:07:58Yes, Mother.
01:07:59Are you sure you didn't catch cold coming home?
01:08:06I'm all right, Mother.
01:08:11That's sweet.
01:08:14Sweet.
01:08:16What is, Mother, darling?
01:08:18My hand against your cheek.
01:08:21I can feel it.
01:08:29I wonder if Eugene and Lucy know that we've come home.
01:08:35I'm sure they do.
01:08:41Has he asked about me?
01:08:47Yes.
01:08:49He was here.
01:08:53Has he gone?
01:08:55Yes, Mother.
01:09:00Oh.
01:09:03I'd like to have seen him.
01:09:08Just once.
01:09:15She must rest now.
01:09:24Yes.
01:09:50George.
01:09:52She loved you.
01:09:54She loved you.
01:09:58And now, Major Amberson was engaged in the profoundest thinking of his life.
01:10:04And he realized that everything which had worried him or delighted him during this lifetime,
01:10:10all his buying and building and trading and banking,
01:10:14that it was all trifling and waste beside what concerned him now.
01:10:18For the Major knew now that he had to plan how to enter an unknown country,
01:10:24where he was not even sure of being recognized as an Amberson.
01:10:28Father.
01:10:30Father.
01:10:32Father.
01:10:34Huh?
01:10:36The house was in Isabel's name, wasn't it?
01:10:40Yes.
01:10:42Can you remember when you gave her the deed, Father?
01:10:44No.
01:10:48No.
01:10:50No, I can't just remember.
01:10:52It doesn't matter.
01:10:54The whole estate's about as mixed up as an estate can get.
01:10:57You ought to have that deed, George.
01:10:59No, don't bother.
01:11:00It must be in the sun.
01:11:14There wasn't anything here.
01:11:17The sun in the first place.
01:11:22Sun.
01:11:24Earth came out of the sun.
01:11:27We came out of the earth.
01:11:30So...
01:11:32Whatever we are...
01:11:34It must be in the air.
01:11:46Well...
01:11:48Odd way for us to be saying goodbye.
01:11:50One wouldn't have thought it even a few years ago.
01:11:54But here we are.
01:11:56Two gentlemen of elegant appearance in a...
01:11:59state of bustitude.
01:12:03Ah, you can't ever tell what'll happen at all, can you?
01:12:06Once I stood there, we were standing now to say goodbye to a pretty girl.
01:12:10Only it was in the old station before this was built.
01:12:12We called it the Depot.
01:12:15We knew we wouldn't see each other again for almost a year.
01:12:18I thought I couldn't live through it.
01:12:21She stood there crying.
01:12:25Don't even know where she lives now.
01:12:27Well, she is living.
01:12:31If she ever thinks of me, she probably imagines I'm still dancing in the ballroom of the Amberson mansion.
01:12:36She probably thinks of the mansion as still beautiful.
01:12:40Still the finest house in town.
01:12:42Ah, life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks.
01:12:51When they're gone, you can't tell where.
01:12:54Or what the devil you did about.
01:12:56But I believe I'll say now, while there isn't much time left for either of us to get any more embarrassed, I believe I'll say I've always been fond of you, Georgie.
01:13:06I can't say I've always liked you.
01:13:08But we all spoiled you terribly when you were a boy.
01:13:11But you've had a pretty heavy joke.
01:13:12I've taken it pretty quietly.
01:13:14Well, with the train coming into the shed, you'll forgive me for saying there have been times I thought you ought to be hanged.
01:13:17And just for a last word, there may be somebody else in this town who's always felt about you like that.
01:13:22Fond of you, I mean.
01:13:23No matter how much it seems you ought to be hanged, you might try...
01:13:26Well, I must run.
01:13:28I'll send back the money as fast as they pay me, so goodbye and God bless you, Georgie.
01:13:38Did you ever hear the Indian name of that little grove of beech trees?
01:13:43No.
01:13:44You never did either.
01:13:48Well?
01:13:50The name was Loma Nasha.
01:13:54It means they couldn't help it.
01:13:56Doesn't sound like it.
01:13:58Indian names don't.
01:14:00There was a bad Indian chief there.
01:14:03Worst Indian that ever lived.
01:14:05His name was...
01:14:07It was...
01:14:09Vendona.
01:14:11Means rides down everything.
01:14:12What?
01:14:14His name was Vendona.
01:14:15Same thing as rides down everything.
01:14:17I see.
01:14:21Go on.
01:14:24Vendona was unspeakable.
01:14:26He was so proud he wore iron shoes and walked over people's faces with him.
01:14:30So at last the tribe decided that it wasn't a good enough excuse for him that he was young and inexperienced.
01:14:37He'd have to go.
01:14:39So they took him down to the river and put him in a canoe and pushed him out from shore.
01:14:44And the current carried him on down to the ocean.
01:14:49And he never got back.
01:14:51They didn't want him back, of course.
01:14:54They hated Vendona.
01:14:56But they weren't able to discover any other warrior they wanted to make the chief in his place.
01:15:03They couldn't help feeling that way.
01:15:05I see.
01:15:09So that's why they named the place they couldn't help it.
01:15:12Must have been.
01:15:13So, you're going to stay in your garden.
01:15:28You think it's better just to keep walking about among your flower beds until you get old?
01:15:36Like a pensive garden lady on a Victorian engraving?
01:15:39Hmm?
01:15:42I suppose I'm like that tribe that lived here, Papa.
01:15:45I had too much unpleasant excitement.
01:15:48I don't want any more.
01:15:50In fact, I don't want anything but you.
01:15:54You don't?
01:15:56What was the name of that grove?
01:15:58They couldn't help me.
01:15:59The Indian name, I mean.
01:16:01Oh.
01:16:02Molahaha.
01:16:06Molahaha.
01:16:07That wasn't the name you said.
01:16:10Oh, I've forgotten.
01:16:12I see you have.
01:16:14Perhaps you remember the chief's name better.
01:16:19I don't.
01:16:25I hope someday you can forget it.
01:16:27Please try and understand.
01:16:32It's not doing either of us any good going on arguing this way.
01:16:35The place you picked up...
01:16:36But this boarding house is practical.
01:16:39And we could be together.
01:16:40How?
01:16:42On eight dollars a week.
01:16:44I'm only going to be getting eight dollars a week at the law office.
01:16:48You'd be paying more of the expenses than I would.
01:16:51I'd be paying.
01:16:53I'd be paying.
01:16:55Certainly you would.
01:16:57We'd be using more of your money than mine.
01:16:59My money.
01:17:01My money.
01:17:03I...
01:17:05I've got twenty-eight dollars.
01:17:07That's all.
01:17:09Twenty-eight dollars?
01:17:10That's all.
01:17:12I know.
01:17:14I told Jack I didn't put everything in the headlight company.
01:17:17But...
01:17:19I did.
01:17:21Every cent.
01:17:24And it's gone.
01:17:26Why did you wait till now to tell me?
01:17:28I couldn't tell till I had to.
01:17:30It wouldn't do any good.
01:17:32Oh, my God.
01:17:34Oh, I know what you're gonna do.
01:17:37You're...
01:17:39You're gonna leave me in the lurch.
01:17:42I'm only asking you to be reasonable.
01:17:45To try and understand that it's impossible for either of us to go on this way.
01:17:49Will you get up?
01:17:51I can't.
01:17:53I'm too weak.
01:17:55Oh, none of this makes any sense.
01:17:58Will you get up?
01:18:00I knew your mother would want me to watch over you.
01:18:03And try to make something like a home for you.
01:18:08And I tried.
01:18:10I tried to make things as nice for you as I could.
01:18:14I know that.
01:18:16I walked my heels down looking for a place for us to live.
01:18:22I...
01:18:24I walked and walked over this town.
01:18:28I...
01:18:30I didn't run one block on a streetcar.
01:18:36I wouldn't use five cents no matter how tired I was.
01:18:42For the gosh sakes, will you get up?
01:18:44Don't sit there with your back against the boiler.
01:18:46Get up, Ed Ben.
01:18:48It's not hot. It's cold.
01:18:51The plumbers disconnect.
01:18:55I...
01:18:56I wouldn't mind if they hadn't.
01:19:00I wouldn't mind if it burned...
01:19:02I wouldn't mind if it burned me, George!
01:19:05Oh!
01:19:06Andy, for gosh sakes, get up!
01:19:08Now stop it!
01:19:10Stop it! Listen to me! Do you hear me?
01:19:12Stop it! Stop it!
01:19:14Listen to me now!
01:19:16There. That's better.
01:19:18Now let's see where we stand.
01:19:20See if we can afford this place you picked out.
01:19:22I...
01:19:24I'm sure the boarding house is practical, George.
01:19:27I'm sure it's practical.
01:19:28I know it must be practical, Aunt Fanny.
01:19:31It is a comfort to be among nice people.
01:19:34It's all right. I was thinking of the money, Aunt Fanny.
01:19:37There's... there's... there's one great economy.
01:19:40They...
01:19:41They don't allow tipping.
01:19:43They... they have signs that prohibit it.
01:19:45That's good.
01:19:46But the rent's $36 a month.
01:19:48And dinner's 22 and a half for each of us.
01:19:49I've got about a hundred dollars left.
01:19:53A hundred dollars, that's all.
01:19:55We won't need any new clothes for a year.
01:19:57Perhaps...
01:19:58Oh! Longer!
01:20:00So... so you see...
01:20:01Yes, I see.
01:20:03I see that 36 and 45 make 81.
01:20:06That's the lowest. We'll need a hundred dollars a month.
01:20:10And I'm gonna be making 32.
01:20:16A real flare!
01:20:17A real flare for the law.
01:20:20That's right.
01:20:22Couldn't wait till tomorrow to begin.
01:20:24The law's a jealous mistress.
01:20:25And a stern mistress.
01:20:27I can't do it.
01:20:28I can't take up the law.
01:20:30What?
01:20:31I've come to tell you that I've got to find something quicker.
01:20:34Something that pays from the start.
01:20:36I can't think of anything just this minute that pays from the start.
01:20:39Well, sir, I've heard that they pay very high wages to people in dangerous trades.
01:20:42People that handle touchy chemicals or high explosives.
01:20:46Men in the dynamite factories.
01:20:48I thought I'd see if I couldn't get a job like that.
01:20:51I wanted to get started tomorrow if I could.
01:20:53Georgie, your grandfather and I were boys together.
01:20:57Don't you think I ought to know what's the trouble?
01:20:59Well, sir, it's Aunt Fanny.
01:21:02She set her mind on this particular boarding house.
01:21:05Seems she put everything in the headlight company.
01:21:08Well, she's got some old cronies.
01:21:10And I guess she's been looking forward to the games of bridge.
01:21:14And the harmless kind of gossip that goes on in such places.
01:21:17Really, it's a life she'd like better than anything else.
01:21:20Struck me that she just about got to heaven.
01:21:23I got her in that headlight visit with Jack.
01:21:24I feel you have certain responsibility myself.
01:21:27I'm taking the responsibility.
01:21:28She's not your aunt, you know, sir.
01:21:29Well, I'm unable to see, even if she's yours,
01:21:31that a young man is morally called upon to give up a career at the law
01:21:34to provide his aunt with a favorable opportunity to play bridge with.
01:21:39All right, all right.
01:21:41If you promise not to get blown up, I'll see if he can find you the job.
01:21:45You certainly are the most practical young man I ever met.
01:21:49George Amberson Minifer walked homeward slowly through what seemed to be the strange streets of a strange city.
01:21:59For the town was growing and changing.
01:22:03It was heaving up in the middle incredibly.
01:22:07It was spreading incredibly.
01:22:09And as it heaved and spread, it befouled itself and darkened its sky.
01:22:15This was the last walk home he was ever to take up National Avenue to Amberson Addition
01:22:25in the big old house at the foot of Amberson Boulevard.
01:22:29Tomorrow they were to move out.
01:22:32Tomorrow everything would be gone.
01:22:34Tomorrow everything would be gone.
01:22:44Mother, forgive me.
01:22:49God, forgive me.
01:22:56Something had happened.
01:22:57A thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens in the town.
01:23:10And now it came at last.
01:23:13George Amberson Minifer had got his comeuppance.
01:23:18He got it three times filled.
01:23:23And running over.
01:23:27But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it.
01:23:31And they never knew it.
01:23:34Those who were still living had forgotten all about it.
01:23:38And all about him.
01:23:40All right, stay back there now.
01:23:43He run into me as much as I run into him.
01:23:46And if he gets well, he ain't gonna get not one single cent out of me.
01:23:50I'm perfectly willing to say I'm sorry for him, and so is the lady with me.
01:23:53Wonderful, the damage one of these little machines can do.
01:23:55You'll never believe it.
01:23:56All right, Sonny, back in your car.
01:23:58All right, stay back there now.
01:23:59All right, stay back there now.
01:24:19What are you going to do, Papa?
01:24:29I'm going to him.
01:24:40You coming, Papa?
01:24:59You coming, Papa?
01:25:00You coming, Papa?
01:25:01I'm gonna get the car help.
01:25:02You coming, Papa?
01:25:03I'm gonna do it.
01:25:04Why are you looking for it?
01:25:05How is he?
01:25:06I'm gonna do it.
01:25:07I'm gonna get up to it.
01:25:08I'm gonna do it.
01:25:10You coming...
01:25:13How is he?
01:25:15He's looking for a stuntman.
01:25:17I'm gonna get his arm?
01:25:19He's looking for an arrow!
01:25:21How is he?
01:25:27But he's looking for something?
01:25:28How is he?
01:25:31How is Georgie?
01:25:32He's going to be all right.
01:25:34Annie, I wish you could have seen George's face when he saw Lucy.
01:25:41You know what he said to me when we went into that room?
01:25:45He said...
01:25:49You must have known my mother wanted you to come here today.
01:25:53So that I could ask you to forgive me.
01:25:56We shook hands.
01:26:05I never noticed before how much like Isabel Georgie looks.
01:26:12You know something, Fanny?
01:26:16I wouldn't tell this to anybody but you.
01:26:25But it seemed to me as if someone else was in that room.
01:26:31And it through me she brought her boy onto shelter again.
01:26:39And that I'd been true at last.
01:26:43To my true love.
01:26:55Ladies and gentlemen, The Magnificent Ambersons was based on Booth Tarkington's novel.
01:27:04Stanley Cortez was the photographer.
01:27:07Mark Lee Kirk designed the sets.
01:27:10Hal Fields dressed them.
01:27:12Robert Wise was the film editor.
01:27:14Freddie Fleck was the assistant director.
01:27:16Edward Stevenson designed the ladies wardrobe.
01:27:18The special effects were by Vernon L. Walker.
01:27:21The sound recording was by Bailey Fessler and James G. Stewart.
01:27:25Here's the cast.
01:27:27Eugene.
01:27:29Joseph Cotton.
01:27:31Isabel.
01:27:33Dolores Costello.
01:27:36Lucy.
01:27:38Ann Baxter.
01:27:40George.
01:27:41Tim Holt.
01:27:43Fanny.
01:27:45Agnes Moorhead.
01:27:48Jack.
01:27:49Ray Collins.
01:27:52Roger Bronson.
01:27:54Erskine Sanford.
01:27:57Major Amberson.
01:27:59Richard Bennett.
01:28:01I wrote the script and directed it.
01:28:03My name is Orson Welles.
01:28:07This is a Mercury production.
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