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00:00:38The End
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00:02:11Come on, get inside
00:02:12This is sick shit
00:02:13It's almost
00:02:14Get in
00:02:22The End
00:02:55A long road from Hamburg
00:02:56It'll be here in the morning
00:02:58Yes, but if anything should happen
00:03:01All that money
00:03:02Ten thousand golden
00:03:04Eh?
00:03:05So much this journey?
00:03:07Seven thousand in one lump
00:03:08From Prince Loewenstein's agent
00:03:09And then all the small sums
00:03:11Ten thousand at least
00:03:14The roads are dangerous
00:03:17Tomorrow morning it'll be here
00:03:21Ah, we should be thankful, Maya
00:03:23Business is good, eh?
00:03:25Nearly a thousand golden since morning
00:03:32Mama
00:03:32Eh?
00:03:34That agent
00:03:34Did you notice him?
00:03:36What?
00:03:37There he sat
00:03:39Sly and smiling
00:03:40Planning to rob this poor old Jew Rothschild
00:03:43And here I was
00:03:45So innocent
00:03:46A little child
00:03:47A baby, in fact
00:03:50And there was that fine old clock
00:03:52That his master had sent him to bargain for
00:03:54Yes
00:03:54And when at last
00:03:56I let him have it for less money than it cost me
00:03:58I could see in his eyes
00:04:00How pleased he was
00:04:01That he got the better of this little baby
00:04:04So would it under cost?
00:04:07Aspect to catch a mackerel, Mama
00:04:08He thinks he's so clever
00:04:10And I'm so stupid
00:04:12Always make them think they're clever
00:04:22Mama
00:04:24I've been robbed
00:04:25Maya
00:04:26Bagged
00:04:27A whole garden
00:04:27A dead loss
00:04:29Bagged
00:04:29Are you sure?
00:04:30Sometimes they're only cracked
00:04:35You're right, Maya
00:04:36Who gave it to you?
00:04:37Could it be that?
00:04:37That agent
00:04:38And I gave him some wine, too
00:04:40Some of the good wine
00:04:42Shmire
00:04:43He'll come again
00:04:45Good
00:04:46He'll come again
00:04:48And then, Mama
00:04:50I catch my mackerel
00:04:54Well, no one can ever say
00:04:56You don't deal fairly with your customers, Mama
00:04:58It pays in the end, Mama
00:05:01Now finish your accounts
00:05:02Now lay the supper
00:05:04All right, Mama
00:05:07It shouldn't be very long now
00:05:09The roast is almost done
00:05:12Smells good
00:05:12Yeah
00:05:15Looks good, too
00:05:25Mama, quick, it's Nathan
00:05:30Mama, the tax collector
00:05:31Oh, oh
00:05:32Papa
00:05:33The tax collector
00:05:34He's down the street
00:05:35Cut it off
00:05:38The tax collector, boys
00:05:47Mama, put away the silver
00:05:49I have
00:05:59Don't forget, I found a book
00:06:02Oh, run away
00:06:03What do you know about?
00:06:04Everything
00:06:07Take those hats off
00:06:10Hey, Mama
00:06:11Yes
00:06:30Hurry up, Carl
00:06:31Comes up, James
00:06:32Open the fireplace
00:06:35Remember, no deal for the last five days
00:06:37Understand
00:06:38Are you hungry?
00:06:41Not so very
00:06:42Then look hungry
00:06:44Look hungry
00:06:47Ancient Solomon
00:06:48You remain below
00:06:54Mama
00:06:55Hide the roast
00:07:01Get off, James
00:07:15Get off, James
00:07:16All right, we'll take a rascal, Nathan
00:07:20Mama
00:07:20Take your sewing
00:07:21And sit there
00:07:22Nathan
00:07:23Find me
00:07:25Nathan
00:07:25Take your hands
00:07:26Out of your pockets
00:07:30Open up, Jew
00:07:39Who is it, Nathan?
00:07:40Now then, Rothschild
00:07:42Why, it's my good friend, the tax collector
00:07:44Bring out your account book
00:07:46Certainly, sir
00:07:47Here it is
00:07:49I was just looking over it
00:07:51Things are very bad
00:07:52I was saying to my poor wife
00:07:54Good dollar
00:07:55This is our friend, the tax collector
00:07:59Never have I known such a good thing
00:08:00It's a bad month
00:08:01No
00:08:01For five days
00:08:03Not one garden have I seen
00:08:04Hmm
00:08:05Customers come
00:08:06Yes, but they don't buy
00:08:08No
00:08:08No one's traveling these days
00:08:11So my exchange business
00:08:12Is worse than nothing
00:08:14I shall soon starve
00:08:15Starve, eh?
00:08:17What?
00:08:17Something smells good
00:08:19Hmm
00:08:20One of our neighbors
00:08:21Must be having a roast
00:08:22Close the window, Mama
00:08:24What do you take me for?
00:08:27Now bring out the real books
00:08:29Real books?
00:08:30My Excellency
00:08:31I don't understand what you mean
00:08:33Rothschild, you're doing more business
00:08:34Than any Jew in Jew Street
00:08:36You're going to pay
00:08:37Twenty thousand gold
00:08:38Twenty thousand?
00:08:40Why, a count of the big merchants
00:08:42And the city doesn't pay as much as that
00:08:43That's another matter
00:08:44He's outside the ghetto
00:08:45He's not a Jew
00:08:46Oh, if you were going to kill me this instant
00:08:48I could barely raise a thousand gold
00:08:51Upstairs
00:08:51Search the house
00:08:54Pull the beds apart
00:09:03Well, I might perhaps raise a two thousand gold
00:09:09Very interesting
00:09:10Oh, that
00:09:11Nathan, lift up the trap drawer for the gentleman
00:09:16Just some old stock
00:09:18We have a little wine down there
00:09:20Not very good wine, I'm afraid
00:09:22Good wine costs money
00:09:24But no account books
00:09:25No gold
00:09:26No jewels, I suppose
00:09:27Jewels
00:09:28Jewels
00:09:29I've had to give up
00:09:30Beating in jewels long ago
00:09:31It needs capital
00:09:32Shall I lead the way?
00:09:34You follow
00:09:34At a distance
00:09:46Stand up, Jew boys
00:10:10Ha
00:10:11Wine
00:10:13Fill up a cup
00:10:14But that's green, excellency
00:10:15Do as I say
00:10:18Oh
00:10:18It had wine in it after all, eh
00:10:21Ha, ha
00:10:26Slop
00:10:27Yes, sir
00:10:28That's what we drink
00:10:29Ha
00:10:31But there's some here
00:10:32That bother keeps for his special customers
00:10:34Won't your excellency
00:10:51Let me try it
00:10:51You old fox
00:10:53It's good
00:10:54Your excellency does us honor
00:10:57Rothschild, apparently you've been telling me the truth
00:10:59So do you know what I'm going to do?
00:11:01No, excellency
00:11:01I'm going to charge you 20,000 golden
00:11:04Just the same
00:11:05But I can't do it
00:11:07There's not that much money in the whole ghetto
00:11:10Rothschild
00:11:12You'd like to pay only 2,000 golden again
00:11:15Wouldn't you?
00:11:18Yes, excellency
00:11:31Now, what would it be worth to me
00:11:33If I put you down for 2,000 this time?
00:11:36Hey, a very handsome present for your excellency
00:11:40Say, 1,000 golden
00:11:42Dark sense, Rothschild
00:11:43I want 10,000
00:11:45Would you leave me and my family penniless?
00:11:48With a great deal of pleasure
00:11:50Come now
00:11:50Well, perhaps
00:11:523,000 golden
00:11:54But that's the limit
00:11:55The actual limit
00:11:56I'll take 6,000
00:11:59Well, I will
00:12:02We'll make it 5,000
00:12:06All right
00:12:07Have it ready tomorrow
00:12:09I'll call
00:12:13And if any of you breathe a word
00:12:16I'll have your house burned to the ground
00:12:27Boys, you did well
00:12:29Nathan, you're a smart lad
00:12:31That wine
00:12:32Mama
00:12:33You should have seen him
00:12:34And after all
00:12:35A 5,000 golden
00:12:37Isn't as bad as it might have been
00:12:38No
00:12:39But it is bad
00:12:41To have to pay away 5,000 golden
00:12:43Not as bad as having to pay away 20,000, father
00:12:49Six o'clock
00:12:51All Jews inside
00:12:52Come on
00:12:58Let's get out of this dead-up
00:12:59What?
00:13:00Shall I go after him?
00:13:02I'll let him go
00:13:05Mr. Rothschild
00:13:09Mr. Rothschild
00:13:09What's the matter?
00:13:10What's happened?
00:13:11The man who was bringing your money from Hamburg
00:13:12Has been waylaid by the tax agents outside the city
00:13:15What?
00:13:15They heard he was bringing the money to Jew Street
00:13:17They might have killed him
00:13:18But he got away
00:13:18He got away?
00:13:19With the money?
00:13:20No, they got it, Mr. Rothschild
00:13:21They got the money
00:13:22What?
00:13:22All of it?
00:13:23Yes
00:13:23All of it
00:13:24Do you hear that, Papa?
00:13:26Do you hear that, all of you?
00:13:2710,000 golden
00:13:28Our money
00:13:29That we worked for
00:13:30Why doesn't the almighty strike them dead?
00:13:32Papa, don't get excited
00:13:33It's bad for you
00:13:34Now listen
00:13:35You are young
00:13:36You are liza before you
00:13:37You've got to fight
00:13:38Fight for yourselves
00:13:39Fight for our people
00:13:41Mama
00:13:42I have to cheat the tax collector
00:13:44Before my own children
00:13:46Do you think I want to do that?
00:13:48I live honestly
00:13:49I trade honestly
00:13:51I want to be honest with them
00:13:53But they won't let us
00:13:54We are Jews
00:13:55Taxed to death
00:13:56Forbidden to learn a trade
00:13:58Forbidden to own land
00:13:59They keep us in chains
00:14:01They send men here to rob us
00:14:02So work and strive for money
00:14:04Money is power
00:14:06Money is the only weapon
00:14:07That the Jew has to defend himself with
00:14:09Oh, Mella
00:14:18Come, we must speak with you
00:14:19All of you
00:14:33We're here, Papa
00:14:35All of us
00:14:40My sons
00:14:42When I go
00:14:44I leave you and your mama's care
00:14:48She is wise
00:14:50Far wiser than I
00:14:52And good
00:14:54Do always as she says
00:14:58And you will grow rich
00:15:02Come closer
00:15:08Much money is lost
00:15:10Through sending gold by coach
00:15:13From one country to another
00:15:15In times of war
00:15:17To seize by the enemy
00:15:18In times of peace
00:15:20By thieves
00:15:21You are five brothers
00:15:23I want you each
00:15:25To start a banking business
00:15:27In a different country
00:15:29One to go and open a house
00:15:31In Paris
00:15:32One in Vienna
00:15:33One in London
00:15:34Choose the most important centers
00:15:37So
00:15:38That when money is to be sent
00:15:41From here
00:15:42To London
00:15:43And let us say
00:15:44You won't have to risk life
00:15:47And gold
00:15:48And kill
00:15:49Here in Frankfurt
00:15:51Will just send a letter
00:15:53To Nathan
00:15:54In London
00:15:54Saying
00:15:55Pay so and so
00:15:57And that will be offset
00:15:59By loans
00:16:00From London
00:16:02To Frankfurt
00:16:03Understand?
00:16:05Yes
00:16:06In your day
00:16:07There will be many wars
00:16:09In Europe
00:16:10A nation that have money
00:16:13To transport
00:16:13Will come to the Rothschilds
00:16:16Because it will be safe
00:16:18Mother you mustn't talk anymore
00:16:20The doctor's
00:16:21I'm giving advice
00:16:21To our sons
00:16:22Mama
00:16:23That the doctor cannot give
00:16:27Remember
00:16:29Unity
00:16:30Is strength
00:16:31All your lives
00:16:33You must stand by one another
00:16:35No one brother
00:16:37Must be allowed to fail
00:16:39While another brother succeeds
00:16:41Your five banking houses
00:16:44May cover Europe
00:16:45But you will be one farm
00:16:48One family
00:16:50The Rothschilds
00:16:52Who work always together
00:16:55That will be your power
00:16:58And when that power comes
00:17:02Remember
00:17:03The ghetto
00:17:04I shall be here
00:17:06I shall never leave the house
00:17:08Where they were all born
00:17:09And remember this before all
00:17:12That neither business
00:17:14Nor power
00:17:15Nor all the gold in Europe
00:17:18Will bring you happiness
00:17:20Till we
00:17:21Our people
00:17:22Have equality
00:17:24Respect
00:17:26Dignity
00:17:27To trade
00:17:29With dignity
00:17:30To live
00:17:32With dignity
00:17:34To walk
00:17:35The world
00:17:37With dignity
00:18:02To Ada
00:18:03To
00:18:23Plus
00:18:24If Napoleon is to be beaten in the East,
00:18:26we must have 15 million florins immediately,
00:18:29and more later.
00:18:31I think it can be done, Prince Martin.
00:18:33But I shall have to consult with my brother Nathan in London.
00:18:36Come, come, Solomon, can't you decide now?
00:18:38Your Highness is aware that the Rothschilds work as a family,
00:18:41and we've made Nathan our head.
00:18:52The Rothschilds,
00:18:53there can be no peace in Europe as long as Napoleon controls Italy.
00:18:5816 million ducats as soon as possible.
00:19:01If your Highness will keep the utmost secrecy,
00:19:04I will endeavor to obtain the consent of my brothers.
00:19:15You must realize, Monsieur de Talleyrand,
00:19:17how difficult it is for the Paris house of Rothschild
00:19:20to help the allies against Napoleon.
00:19:22Yes.
00:19:22My dear Monsieur James,
00:19:23I will be as secret as the great.
00:19:26But we must have 50 million francs.
00:19:36You're busy, Donners, our house, Count Laydrops.
00:19:40Quite aware of that, Andrew Rothschild.
00:19:42I wish no one to hear of it.
00:19:46Only necessity brings me here.
00:19:49The armies of Napoleon are already in Russia.
00:19:52We've got to have five million gulden to drive them out.
00:19:55I will consult my brother.
00:19:57Ah, that's nonsense.
00:19:58It is an unbreakable rule, Your Excellency.
00:20:00The house of Rothschild never participates in a deal of this importance
00:20:04without the approval of all the partners.
00:20:07That is impossible.
00:20:09My brother Nathan in London is permitted to make a decision.
00:20:20Mr. Nathan, it may be that just one more loan will carry us to victory.
00:20:25You've been most generous, you and your brothers too.
00:20:28And I can assure you, sir, that His Majesty fully realizes
00:20:31that the house of Rothschild has already contributed
00:20:33ten times as much as any other banking house in Europe.
00:20:37Captain Fitzroy arrived this morning from Wellington's headquarters.
00:20:40And he's told me how much the General appreciates what you've done.
00:20:46Lord Wellington's language on the battlefield can't be repeated, sir.
00:20:49But I've heard him declare that he wouldn't swap any one of those five
00:20:52dash dash Rothschilds for any five of Napoleon's dash dash dash brigade.
00:20:57May I tell the Prime Minister you agree to one more loan?
00:21:01Do you realize, gentlemen, that the Allies are drawing on us throughout Europe?
00:21:05It's money that wins wars.
00:21:07It's money that makes wars.
00:21:08With five million pounds, we can hold Napoleon at bay.
00:21:12Mr. Harris, tell the Prime Minister I decline to raise five million pounds
00:21:17to keep the Allies fighting Napoleon.
00:21:19I'm sorry.
00:21:20But you can tell Lord Wellington that the five dash dash Rothschilds
00:21:25will let him have ten million if he'll guarantee to smash Napoleon.
00:21:34Excuse my hat, gentlemen.
00:21:59Elas and gentlemen.
00:22:03Once more, England is indebted to her greatest soldier.
00:22:08It is my privilege as Prime Minister to thank him on behalf of England for his glorious
00:22:15achievement.
00:22:17We rejoice at your safe return.
00:22:20My lords and gentlemen, charge your glasses.
00:22:25I give you a toast.
00:22:29His grace, the Duke of Wellington.
00:22:45Well, that's over.
00:22:48Ah, empty.
00:22:49Who's got some snuff here?
00:22:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:51England, your greatest folder.
00:22:52Yeah, that's all right.
00:22:54May I shake your hands, your grace?
00:22:57Thank you, thank you.
00:22:58Here it is.
00:23:03Why wasn't Rothschild here?
00:23:05There was some feeling.
00:23:06Wasn't he asked?
00:23:07Well, no, your grace.
00:23:08Some of these people...
00:23:09Wasn't the man who paid for these dash wars important enough?
00:23:12It wasn't a question of importance, it was...
00:23:14Well, if he can't come here, I suppose we can still go there.
00:23:17He fits.
00:23:18Yes, sir.
00:23:19Just as soon as I can get away, we're going to call on Nathan Rothschild.
00:23:21He ought to have been here.
00:23:23Dash light, I call it.
00:23:25Ah, more snuff.
00:23:28Do you know where the old boy lives?
00:23:29Very well indeed, sir.
00:23:32Oh, you young blackguard.
00:23:34I'd forgotten about that daughter of his.
00:23:46Darling.
00:23:47No, I'm not sorry.
00:23:48Not in the least.
00:23:50Neither am I.
00:23:52Just...
00:23:53I've been trying to tell you for a long time.
00:23:56I've wanted to get you.
00:23:57Yes, I know that.
00:23:58But when it came, it was so sudden, it rather frightened me.
00:24:01Frightened?
00:24:02The captain of the guards to protect you, Dick?
00:24:05Well, the captain of the guards is a very dangerous person.
00:24:08Only to his rivals.
00:24:11You know, you're a very conceited young man.
00:24:13Hmm?
00:24:13You haven't even asked me if I loved you.
00:24:15Well, don't you?
00:24:18Yes, I do.
00:24:20I love you more than anything else in the world.
00:24:29And then tonight, after I've talked to Duke into Ben,
00:24:33I'll call on your father.
00:24:35Darling.
00:24:36My speech to him is all ready.
00:24:38I've rehearsed it not less than a thousand times.
00:24:41To trees at night, to guns, even to horses.
00:24:45I haven't gotten a refusal yet.
00:24:49I'm afraid it's not as simple as that.
00:24:51Some of those horses were pretty difficult customers.
00:24:54It's no use, darling.
00:24:56You're just dodging the real reason.
00:24:58You're being sweet and thoughtful again.
00:25:00But you're not making me forget that you're a gentile and I'm a Jewess.
00:25:04Think of the shock to our families.
00:25:06This is no longer a family matter.
00:25:09Spitz and Julie.
00:25:22Hush, hush, hush.
00:25:24I've had that crowd at me heels all day.
00:25:26If they had any sense, it's you they'd be following around.
00:25:30Not me.
00:25:31Oh, we Rothschildes have had just as big crowds following at our heels in Frankfurt.
00:25:35But not with cheers.
00:25:37Well, I'll cheer for you.
00:25:39Gladly.
00:25:39And I hope one day, Europe will realize he owes you something more than money.
00:25:45Well, my father was a man of peace.
00:25:47He told us never to loan money to make wars, always to end them.
00:25:51And that's been our principle.
00:25:53Well, everybody knows that and respects you for it.
00:25:55No, Your Grace.
00:25:56They don't know it.
00:25:57And they don't respect us.
00:25:59Arab bankers are jealous of us.
00:26:01The man in the street thinks we're just Sherlock's.
00:26:03And Europe hides his head for shame because it borrows from the Jews.
00:26:08I suppose you know it's that Prussian fellow, Count Lederanz, that's responsible for that rot.
00:26:13I know.
00:26:13He hates me and all my race.
00:26:15He's a proper jackass, Rothschild.
00:26:18And he ought to be hanged.
00:26:20I must admit that the same happy thought has occurred to me more than once.
00:26:26You know, it's a danger having a man like that in authority.
00:26:29Always making enemies.
00:26:31Well, that's a danger.
00:26:32They may need us again.
00:26:34What do you mean?
00:26:36Well, perhaps you're not out of the woods yet.
00:26:38Why, Napoleon's scotched.
00:26:40Napoleon's in exile, but he's not dead.
00:26:43As good as dead, Rothschild.
00:26:45As good as dead.
00:26:46Ah.
00:26:47Perhaps.
00:26:50Another brandy, Your Grace.
00:26:51Ah.
00:26:52I often thought it would have saved a lot of trouble if Napoleon had been born an Englishman.
00:26:57Oh.
00:26:59Where would I be then?
00:27:01Why, his commanding officer, of course.
00:27:03Oh.
00:27:07Sound brandy you've got here, Rothschild.
00:27:09To the peace of Europe.
00:27:10Well, I'm a soldier.
00:27:11But I'll drink to that.
00:27:15I see, Rothschild.
00:27:17A little secret.
00:27:19Mind you, I oughtn't to tell you this, but I just heard this morning that they are going to float
00:27:24a dash big loan to put France on her feet.
00:27:26An enormous loan.
00:27:28The biggest thing ever issued.
00:27:29Yes.
00:27:30Well, they've got to do something.
00:27:31France has had 20 years of war and the whole country's torn up.
00:27:34But now they've got peace.
00:27:36They're going to get together, the five allied powers, and help her out.
00:27:39And the banking house that floats this loan will at once become the most powerful in Europe.
00:27:45Its prestige will be enormous.
00:27:47That's it.
00:27:49Now's your chance.
00:27:51Now, Grace, I can't sufficient to thank you for this information.
00:27:54Mind you, it's a dash dark secret.
00:27:56But it serves the chuckleheads right for telling me.
00:27:59They oughtn't know by now, I can't keep a secret.
00:28:02Send a message to Mr. Roth, and ask him to come to be here at once.
00:28:05Yes, sir.
00:28:07We'll drink to the house that floats the new French loan.
00:28:09To the house of Rothschild.
00:28:14And its greatest matter.
00:28:16Ah, there you are.
00:28:19Miss Julie.
00:28:20Your Grace.
00:28:21Mrs. Rothschild, you've got to watch this young rooster.
00:28:25I'm beginning to understand now why you are always asking for leave to return to London.
00:28:29Now that you do understand, I trust you'll let him come more often?
00:28:32It's against the regulations.
00:28:33I only saw Julie five times, sir.
00:28:35And once when you sent him to the dispatches to the Prime Minister,
00:28:38Julie was waiting for him at the corner of Downing Street.
00:28:40That, I hope, isn't against the regulations, Your Grace.
00:28:42Not if he didn't speak to you.
00:28:44We didn't think you knew about that, Nathan.
00:28:46I'm afraid it's time to go, Your Grace.
00:28:48All right.
00:28:48You can't fox this man.
00:28:49He's a magician.
00:28:51There's no question about that.
00:28:53Oh!
00:28:54I see, Rothschild.
00:28:55I've been told you knew about Napoleon's abdication two days before the war office did.
00:29:00Is that true?
00:29:01Yes.
00:29:02But then the war office never knows anything for two days after everybody else knows it.
00:29:06Yes, and then they take two more days thinking it over.
00:29:09But how did you do it?
00:29:10They say Indians get things by putting their ears to the ground.
00:29:13But you're not an Indian, are you?
00:29:15No.
00:29:16No.
00:29:16Just plain Jerusalem.
00:29:17With a heart of gold.
00:29:19Ah.
00:29:20Well, I know something about sending dispatches.
00:29:22My man Fitzroy here is the best at that.
00:29:24But if I had twenty Fitz's, I couldn't do it in that time.
00:29:27You knew about Napoleon's abdication almost as soon as it happened.
00:29:31How the deuce did you do it?
00:29:33Yes.
00:29:34A little bird whispered in my ear.
00:29:36Oh.
00:29:37You don't intend to tell me, eh?
00:29:39Well, I don't blame you.
00:29:43Fitz, we'd better go before he makes us disappear like rabbits in a hat.
00:29:47This is our child.
00:29:48You're a charming home.
00:29:51And a charming daughter.
00:29:52Your Grace.
00:29:54I hope that dash crowd's gone.
00:29:57Ah, thank you.
00:30:00Are they still there?
00:30:04Yes.
00:30:05And this is the man who faced the Grand Army.
00:30:07Hush, hush, hush.
00:30:08Here, Fitzroy.
00:30:09Yes, sir.
00:30:10Brandy before the charge always.
00:30:11Aha.
00:30:11Ah, there's military tactics for you.
00:30:14There's a young man who'll be a general someday.
00:30:18And remember, it's a dashed dark secret.
00:30:20A thousand thanks, your Grace.
00:30:30There he goes.
00:30:32Longing for the peace and the quiet of the battlefield.
00:30:36Yes, sir.
00:30:38Mom.
00:30:39Mom, I ought to be very happy, but I'm not quite.
00:30:43What is it, dear?
00:30:46Fitz says it's nobody's business but ours.
00:30:48Just his and mine.
00:30:49But it's this wretched family I'm thinking of.
00:30:52You know, Mother nearly all of his aunts are duchesses and countesses.
00:30:54And oh, I'm so afraid they'll turn up their notices.
00:30:57He doesn't object to our money, I hope.
00:30:59No.
00:30:59He says he's willing to overlook that.
00:31:01Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
00:31:02Father, please don't think of Fitz like that.
00:31:04Please don't.
00:31:05You're hurting her, Nathan.
00:31:07Isn't that rather cruel?
00:31:08Oh, no, it's my fault.
00:31:10I never told Father I really care as much as I do.
00:31:13And you didn't either of you think I knew?
00:31:15We businessmen are not supposed to notice unimportant things like daughters and wives.
00:31:21You should know better than that, Hannah.
00:31:22Well, I knew she loved him.
00:31:24But we thought we'd tell you when you got to know him better.
00:31:27Julie, you know the tradition of our family.
00:31:30A Rothschild to marry a Rothschild.
00:31:32But I wasn't a Rothschild, Nathan.
00:31:34No.
00:31:34But you were Hannah.
00:31:36And you were one of our race.
00:31:38That's what frightens me, Mom.
00:31:40These dreadful prejudices.
00:31:42Could we bear it?
00:31:44Fitz, bear it.
00:31:45I won't pretend, Julie, that I wouldn't rather you married one of your own people.
00:31:50It's a cruel barrier.
00:31:52Yes.
00:31:53But the world's changed a bit.
00:31:56Especially in England.
00:31:57There's no Jew street here.
00:32:00And they're lifting other chains from us too.
00:32:04So, perhaps...
00:32:04Oh, no.
00:32:05No, don't say perhaps.
00:32:06Say yes.
00:32:07What do you think, Hannah?
00:32:09I think girls should be allowed to make their own choice.
00:32:12Ah.
00:32:12I'm not sure that I agree with you.
00:32:14Oh, but this girl, Father.
00:32:15Well, it's about the first time that I've known a Rothschild to make a bad bargain.
00:32:20You are a Rothschild.
00:32:21And the Duke of Wellington has told me that the Rothschilds did a great deal for Europe during the war.
00:32:26Now, what have your Fitzroys done?
00:32:28Nothing.
00:32:29Beyond repeatedly getting leave of absence from duty and showing an unaccountable interest in orchids.
00:32:34And a remarkable taste in women.
00:32:36That doesn't show strength of character.
00:32:37Any fool could fall in love with you.
00:32:39Oh, but not any fool could get your consent.
00:32:40He hasn't tried yet.
00:32:41But he will.
00:32:42And when he does, you'll see him.
00:32:43Oh, you darling.
00:32:45Here's Roth looking positively shocked.
00:32:48Don't go, Julie.
00:32:49Oh, I must.
00:32:50I'm engaged.
00:32:51Where are you going, Julie?
00:32:52I'm going out to the orchid house.
00:32:53Look at the orchids.
00:32:57Roth.
00:32:57I sent for you because I have tremendous news.
00:33:02This message must go to each of my brothers at once.
00:33:07By what his grace calls our magic.
00:33:13Great news.
00:33:17Yes, indeed.
00:33:27Let me have the earliest possible dates on which all private loans can be recalled.
00:33:31Give instructions to Brant.
00:33:32No more private loans until further notice.
00:33:34I must know at once the exact extent of our available cabin.
00:33:38The most important deal the house of Rothschild has ever attempted.
00:33:59Oh, let me look at you.
00:34:01Oh, you really look so very nice.
00:34:03I'm sure I don't know how they can refuse you anything you ask.
00:34:05I'm not depending entirely on my perfume.
00:34:08Where's my hat?
00:34:08Oh, the carriage hasn't come yet.
00:34:10I'll take a hat.
00:34:10That's what I like to do.
00:34:11It always makes me feel so independent.
00:34:13Sure you won't let me put a little perfume on your handkerchief?
00:34:16Quite surely.
00:34:16You're so calm.
00:34:18Aren't you excited at all about getting this great loan?
00:34:20Who'll be there?
00:34:22Representatives of all the big banking houses in Europe.
00:34:24Baring will be there, of course.
00:34:25And the ministers of the countries interested, I suppose.
00:34:27I suppose so.
00:34:28Laid Rangs representing Prussia, Messenich from Austria and the rest of them.
00:34:32Still, you feel pretty sure, sir, don't you?
00:34:34Sure of half of it, anyhow.
00:34:35I have private information that ours was the best bid.
00:34:38The largest loan in history.
00:34:41You know it's the proudest day of your life.
00:34:43The proudest day of my life happened 30 years later.
00:34:48I shall draw an easy breath.
00:34:50Don't worry.
00:34:51When I say that no other banking house in Europe can match our bid,
00:34:54I'm not guessing.
00:34:55I know.
00:34:56Now where's my hat?
00:34:57On your head, I believe.
00:34:58Where it should be.
00:34:59Where it shouldn't be in the ladies' present.
00:35:01I beg your pardon.
00:35:04To Downing Street and victory.
00:35:08Goodbye.
00:35:09Goodbye, Father.
00:35:09Good luck.
00:35:18Thank you, sir.
00:35:19But, Mr. Rothschild, even your daughter Miss Shuley pays me more than this, sir.
00:35:23Ah, Miss Shuley has a very rich father. I haven't.
00:35:30Mr. Rothschild.
00:35:31Mr. Rothschild.
00:35:32Mr. Rothschild.
00:35:33Mr. Rothschild.
00:35:34Mr. Rothschild.
00:35:34How do you do?
00:35:35Very well, sir.
00:35:36How are you, Rothschild?
00:35:36Hello, Hope.
00:35:37Am I too early or too late?
00:35:39Early.
00:35:39They're still in the conference room.
00:35:41Oh, thanks.
00:35:44My lads and gentlemen.
00:35:58Your hat.
00:35:59Oh.
00:36:01Ah, thank you, Mr. Barington.
00:36:04The meeting is called to order.
00:36:07Gentlemen.
00:36:08Bids for a French loan for 450 million francs have been received and recorded.
00:36:14Offers to take all or a part of the issue of bonds.
00:36:17The greatest single issue in the history of European finance
00:36:21were received from the following banking houses.
00:36:25J. Lafitte and Company, Paris.
00:36:27Gémola, Vienna.
00:36:29Hope, London.
00:36:31Bertrand de Lis, Madrid.
00:36:33Baring and Company, London.
00:36:35It is the decision of the conference that the highest authoritative bid
00:36:39is that of Baring and Company, London.
00:36:42They will be awarded three-quarters of the issue at 71.
00:36:47There being no further...
00:36:49But you're mistaken, Mr. Harries, there is.
00:36:51Mr. Nathan Rothschild.
00:36:53I'm compelled, my lads and gentlemen,
00:36:55to draw your attention to what must certainly be an oversight.
00:36:57I regret to say, Mr. Rothschild, the decision must stand.
00:37:00But my house sent in its bid to take the entire issue.
00:37:03And our price was a point better than Mr. Baring's.
00:37:06Why is that not recorded?
00:37:07Perhaps Count Laidrance would like to explain the situation to Mr. Rothschild.
00:37:16Your Excellency.
00:37:19Your bid was received, Mr. Rothschild.
00:37:21But to put it as delicately as possible, it was thrown out, shall we say, on a technicality.
00:37:29A technicality?
00:37:30What am I to understand by that?
00:37:33You are at liberty to give my statement any interpretation you choose.
00:37:38You mean, in brief, I am a Jew?
00:37:41Likewise, in brief, I do.
00:37:45Gentlemen, I must accept your decision.
00:37:49But since Count Laidrance has been frank enough to admit the reason for our exclusion,
00:37:55I venture to advise him that these attacks on my race are ignorant and futile.
00:38:01He may strike and strike again.
00:38:04A Jew falls.
00:38:06A thousand are wounded.
00:38:08But the race lives on.
00:38:11But unfortunately for His Excellency, we are evidently eternal.
00:38:24Mr. Harris, you say that bearings take three-fourths of the loan.
00:38:29May I ask who takes the other fourth?
00:38:31That is being taken up by Count Laidrance, Prince Metternish, Count Talleyrand.
00:38:36I see.
00:38:37A family party.
00:38:40Good day, gentlemen.
00:38:42Your luck is out, Mr. Rothschild.
00:39:30Good day.
00:39:32Father.
00:39:33Well, Father, what news?
00:39:34How stands the House of Rothschild?
00:39:37Well, they've been throwing stones at it.
00:39:40And I'm afraid some of the stones went wild.
00:39:43And it's usually.
00:39:45What do you mean?
00:39:46I've just come from a meeting of men in society.
00:39:50The kind of society to which Fitzroy belongs.
00:39:53And they stone me because I'm a Jew.
00:39:57Fitzroy isn't that sort.
00:39:59Julie, you must give him up.
00:40:00Give him up?
00:40:01I can't.
00:40:02I know best.
00:40:02But you don't love him, I do.
00:40:04Will he continue to love you?
00:40:05Father, this isn't like you.
00:40:06You've always fought for what you wanted and got it.
00:40:08Well, perhaps I'm a fighter too.
00:40:10This fight's been going on for 2,000 years.
00:40:11The things are changing.
00:40:12You said so yourself.
00:40:13I was a fool.
00:40:14I thought we'd swept away these prejudices.
00:40:16But I was a fool.
00:40:17Fitz knows what he's doing.
00:40:18We've talked this thing all over.
00:40:19We're ready to face the consequences.
00:40:21While you're young.
00:40:22But what are the years to come?
00:40:23There's no one else in the world for me for Fitz, and I won't give him up.
00:40:27Well, Nathan.
00:40:30What is it?
00:40:32They didn't outbid you.
00:40:34Yes.
00:40:35My bid was thrown out on a technicality.
00:40:39A technicality?
00:40:41Because I'm a Jew.
00:40:44But they did me a great service.
00:40:47They showed me just how they were going to behave to Julie if she married into their set.
00:40:56You'll do as I bid you.
00:40:59Try it, Father.
00:41:03Nathan.
00:41:04What have you said to her?
00:41:05You can't ruin their lives.
00:41:07No.
00:41:08I'm going to save them.
00:41:09Hannah, she mustn't continue to see this man.
00:41:12You must get her away.
00:41:13But where?
00:41:14Take her to Frankfurt and take her to Wetz.
00:41:15Excuse me, sir.
00:41:16I heard the result of the meeting and came to offer my sympathy.
00:41:20Oh.
00:41:21Well, thanks.
00:41:22If you have any spare sympathy, you might keep a little in reserve for burying Laidrance and company.
00:41:27I don't think they need it, sir.
00:41:29No, they may later.
00:41:31Do you realize that Laidrance, Metternich, Talleyrand and the rest of the party are taking a fourth of this loan
00:41:39without a penny between them?
00:41:40But they'll make millions on the rise.
00:41:44Ah.
00:41:47He's tired.
00:41:48Perhaps I'd better call again later.
00:41:50Ralph!
00:41:52If you could buy government 4% bonds at 60, would you pay 74 for them?
00:41:56No, sir.
00:41:57Would you, Hannah?
00:41:57Goodness me, no.
00:41:59I thought not.
00:42:00Nathan, what's in your mind?
00:42:04Murder.
00:42:06Hannah, I'll tell you exactly what's in my mind.
00:42:09And this may interest you, Turo.
00:42:13Bering and those others, headed by Laidrance, have taken this new loan at 71.
00:42:19On the first of the month, they're going to offer it to the public at 74.
00:42:23It pays 4%.
00:42:25But there is already in existence a previous government bond, which also pays 4%, of which we have a large
00:42:32holding.
00:42:32Yeah.
00:42:33This bond is now selling at 73.
00:42:36Hannah says I'm tired.
00:42:38But I'm not too tired to realize that if the public can buy one government bond for 73, they won't
00:42:44buy a new issue bearing the same interest for 74.
00:42:47That's true, sir.
00:42:48But bearing on the other bankers will run up the old bonds, and when they rise to about 75...
00:42:53I know what you're going to say.
00:42:54They make the old ones rise, and then launch the new ones a point lower, and the public rushes in.
00:42:59Quite so, sir.
00:43:01But suppose there is no rise.
00:43:03Hmm?
00:43:04Suppose somebody pricks the balloon, and it doesn't go up.
00:43:08Suppose before they can run it up, somebody else begins to run it down.
00:43:13Suppose by the first of the month, these old bonds now selling at 73, should fall down to 63.
00:43:19Then they couldn't possibly launch the new loan at 74, because nobody would buy this.
00:43:23No.
00:43:23And Bering, and Laiderance, and his little band of bankrupt brigands will wait for it to go up.
00:43:31But suppose instead of going up, its chair goes down to 55, to 50, to 45, to 40, while they'll
00:43:40never be able to launch the loan at all.
00:43:42And by God, that's where it's going!
00:43:49Sir.
00:43:54Sir.
00:44:02Sir.
00:44:06Look at Rothschild.
00:44:07You think he was selling apples instead of government bonds?
00:44:11Bonds are now at 53.
00:44:13All right.
00:44:14I'll keep on selling till I tell you to stop.
00:44:16You're creating something like a panic on the exchange, sir.
00:44:19I know.
00:44:20What kind of a flower is this that Hannah gave me this morning?
00:44:23I don't know, sir.
00:44:25Very pretty.
00:44:27Smells nice, too.
00:44:28Mr. Rothschild.
00:44:29Do you know what you're doing to the market?
00:44:31What have you heard?
00:44:31My dear fellow, I don't hear things.
00:44:33I just imagine them.
00:44:34You know what kind of flower this is?
00:44:36No.
00:44:41Fifty-two.
00:44:43Fifty-two.
00:44:44Fifty-two.
00:44:44That means I'm down about 25 million francs.
00:44:46And you're the same, Lederance.
00:44:48Can't something be done to stop him, Bairing?
00:44:50You're the biggest banker in England.
00:44:51Are we all to be ruined by the gymnastics of a dirty shylock?
00:44:54I've thrown the entire resources of Bairing's bank into the pool, but I can't stop it.
00:44:59He's got us on the run.
00:45:02All right.
00:45:03I bet you half a crown that Bairing makes straight for this post within two minutes.
00:45:09I'll take you, sir.
00:45:13I'm tired of losing money.
00:45:14I'd like to win some.
00:45:23You're a magician, sir.
00:45:25Here he is.
00:45:30Mr. Rothschild, I don't have to tell you this is nothing less than slaughter.
00:45:34You know my position.
00:45:35I'm responsible for this new issue at 71.
00:45:37And you're making it impossible for me to put it on the market.
00:45:39We are both bankers.
00:45:41You knew I ought to have had a share of this loan.
00:45:43Why did you shut me out?
00:45:43Certain pressure was brought to bear on me.
00:45:45Ha!
00:45:46Lebrun.
00:45:47Well, yes.
00:45:48Then let Lebrun speak for himself.
00:45:50All right, Mr. Bairing.
00:45:51I'll come.
00:45:52I'll follow you.
00:46:00About how much has this thing cost us up to now?
00:46:03About five million pounds.
00:46:05All right.
00:46:06We'll make ten.
00:46:19I hope I haven't kept you waiting, gentlemen, because I know you must all be very busy.
00:46:26We sent for you, Rothschild, to make you an offer.
00:46:30You'll resent being left out of this loan.
00:46:32Mr. Bairing, as you know, holds three quarters of it.
00:46:35He has prepared part with half of that to you.
00:46:38Will that satisfy you?
00:46:39What about the other quarter?
00:46:41That, as you know, is held by us.
00:46:43Oh, yes.
00:46:43You bought it at 71.
00:46:44Well, we're responsible for it.
00:46:45You bought it at 71.
00:46:47It was allotted to us.
00:46:48Not against your will, I hope.
00:46:49Certainly not.
00:46:50So you bought at 71.
00:46:51What do you mean, bought it?
00:46:52Can you pay for it at 71?
00:46:53You know perfectly well that no one is prepared to pay in full for an entire issue.
00:46:57Well, you're prepared to pay anything.
00:46:58Could you have stood a ten point drop?
00:47:00No.
00:47:01You took it for a raise.
00:47:02You're financially irresponsible, the whole lot of you.
00:47:04Except Mr. Bairing.
00:47:05Well, I know just how much money you've got each one of you.
00:47:08And if I like to hold down the market till after the first of the month, and I can,
00:47:13you're all ruined.
00:47:14And dishonored.
00:47:16Including Bairing's bank.
00:47:18Now, I'll rescue you on one condition.
00:47:22That you pass me the entire issue at 68.
00:47:25That's impossible.
00:47:26Now, what excuse can we offer to the public?
00:47:28Just say it was fair necessary.
00:47:30On what grounds?
00:47:31Oh.
00:47:32On a technicality.
00:47:36No.
00:47:36Very well.
00:47:37Wait, please.
00:47:39We have to deal with Mr. Rothschild.
00:47:41Under the circumstances, I consider his offer a generous one.
00:47:44And as the head of the House of Bairing, I insist on Mr. Rothschild's terms being accepted.
00:47:50What?
00:47:51Are you going to take it off our hands, Rothschild?
00:47:53That's uncommon good of you.
00:47:55Aye, Count Messerode.
00:47:56Are you also on the preferred list?
00:47:59Yes.
00:47:59But I much prefer to be off of it.
00:48:06Well, we've no choice.
00:48:08Aye, sir.
00:48:09I say yes without hesitation.
00:48:12Complete advance?
00:48:14Very well.
00:48:15Well.
00:48:16To save time, I have this little contract drawn, which I shall ask you gentlemen to sign.
00:48:32You seem to have been very sure of yourself.
00:48:37I was.
00:48:39Quite.
00:48:39All right.
00:48:42Will you sign first?
00:48:48Forty-nine.
00:48:59You won your fight with me, Q.
00:49:02But remember, victory may be bought too dearly.
00:49:30Play trance.
00:49:32What are you going to do, sir?
00:49:33I'm going to Frankfurt. I'll leave within an hour.
00:50:03Let's go.
00:50:42Get out. Get out, you doctors. You can't even cure a bellyache. Take your pills and get out. You're no
00:50:49good.
00:50:50Come, come, Mama. You know the doctor's doing everything he can for you.
00:50:54Yeah. You must remember, Mrs. Rothschild, you are 88 years old, and I can't make you any younger.
00:51:01I'm not asking you to make me any younger. I'm asking you to make me older.
00:51:07She's better. She's insulting people.
00:51:11There's nothing to matter with her. Just nerves.
00:51:13Nerves! Do you think I'm afraid of that, Ravel?
00:51:17I've had 88 years of this, and I'm not dead yet.
00:51:21But we want you to come away with us for a few months. You're not safe here.
00:51:25I was born here, and I'll die here.
00:51:29That won't be soon, either. I'll live a dozen years yet.
00:51:33Nathan, you ought to know enough about bargains to know the Lord isn't going to take me at 88 when
00:51:38he can get me at 100.
00:51:44Well, Nathan, what's brought you here all of a sudden?
00:51:45He came to see his wife and family.
00:51:47Why have you been doing that girl of yours? She goes mewing about like a cat that's lost her kittens.
00:51:51She needs a change.
00:51:52She needs a husband. That's what's the matter with her. What about one of the Goldschmidt boys?
00:51:56I'm afraid Julie has ideas of her own.
00:51:59Then leave her alone. She's no fool.
00:52:21Can you tell me which is the Rothschild house?
00:52:23Yeah.
00:52:29That's it.
00:52:41What's the use of our pretending?
00:52:43I don't pretend to father. He knows exactly how I feel.
00:52:46But you see, darling, he's determined too.
00:52:48But you know we can't give each other up.
00:52:51Sending you away from me only makes matters worse.
00:52:54Did you tell him you'd give me up?
00:52:57I told him I'd try.
00:52:59I don't seem to be trying very hard, do I?
00:53:07Let me look at you.
00:53:09How long did it take you to get here?
00:53:10How long have you been riding?
00:53:11I left yesterday morning.
00:53:12How did you manage?
00:53:13I asked Nosey for leave.
00:53:14Who's Nosey?
00:53:16That's what we call the duke behind his back.
00:53:18Oh.
00:53:19I think he guessed where I was bound for.
00:53:21Anyhow, he said yes.
00:53:23Of course, I had no idea your father was here.
00:53:27No, of course not.
00:53:29What are we going to do?
00:53:31I'm going to see you and have it out.
00:53:33Yes.
00:53:34Oh, darling.
00:53:35Won't you see this through with me somehow?
00:53:38I've got you and I'm going to keep you.
00:53:45Then will you be very brave?
00:53:46A soldier.
00:53:49And wear this ring.
00:53:51Oh, yes.
00:53:52It's one of those family things.
00:53:54My mother wore it.
00:53:55Oh, it's lovely.
00:53:57What's the meaning of this?
00:54:02Father, Fitz has only just arrived.
00:54:04I saw him and brought him in here.
00:54:06Does your mother know?
00:54:06No.
00:54:07Now, nobody knows but us.
00:54:09Why are you here?
00:54:10You knew my wishes?
00:54:11I came here for the same reason you did, sir.
00:54:14I heard there was trouble and Julie was in danger.
00:54:17Go to your mother.
00:54:18I'd rather stay and hear what you have to say to Fitz.
00:54:20Please go, Julie.
00:54:25It's no use, Father.
00:54:32I had a good reason for keeping you and my daughter apart.
00:54:35I desire that you respect my wishes.
00:54:37If Julie weren't agreeable, I wouldn't be here, sir.
00:54:39But her happiness is involved as well as mine.
00:54:42Unfortunately, we differ as to where her happiness lies.
00:54:46What has changed your attitude toward me, sir?
00:54:49Captain Fitzroy, I doubt whether there's a single man in London today
00:54:53who would suspect me of being a sentimental fool,
00:54:55which apparently I have been.
00:54:57But fortunately, I have a certain amount of common sense
00:54:59which sometimes comes to my rescue.
00:55:01You'll please understand that your attentions to my daughter
00:55:04are objectionable to me.
00:55:06What is your objection?
00:55:07You're not of our race.
00:55:09That's an objection?
00:55:09I think you might have raised a great deal earlier.
00:55:11I'm a sentimental fool.
00:55:12Walk through this ghetto.
00:55:14Go into the Jewish quarter of any town in Prussia today.
00:55:17And you'll see men lying dead.
00:55:20Julie's people killed by your people.
00:55:23For but one crime.
00:55:25That they were Jews.
00:55:27Now you understand.
00:55:28I'm sorry, sir.
00:55:30But I still love Julie.
00:55:32Julie is a Rothschild.
00:55:33And she'll not marry without her father's consent.
00:55:36Good day.
00:55:54I love you.
00:56:00Always.
00:56:07The Jews of Prussia know that this uprising
00:56:10is the direct result of your quarrel with Laidruns.
00:56:13And that has made them bitter against you.
00:56:16Fools.
00:56:17Nathan has done more for the Jews in England
00:56:19than any man who ever lived.
00:56:20England is in Prussia, Mama.
00:56:22Laidruns has his agents everywhere.
00:56:24They spread lies and propaganda.
00:56:26You've got to put the screws on.
00:56:28Money is the only screws we have.
00:56:30And now, with Napoleon in exile,
00:56:33Laidruns and the Allies leave us no more.
00:56:36It's queer as debt.
00:56:38We fight for the peace of Europe.
00:56:40And with peace, we lose our power.
00:56:43Well, you've got to do something.
00:56:44They burned down the Levy's house last night.
00:56:46And they burned down this one if they dared.
00:56:48But they're afraid of me.
00:56:50You tell all those kings and ministers you feed
00:56:53that if they don't stop this outrage,
00:56:55you'll stop their pocket money.
00:56:59If I thought Laidruns would listen.
00:57:01If I thought I could make him call off his dogs,
00:57:04I'd go to him.
00:57:05But...
00:57:06Now, don't worry, Nathan,
00:57:07and make yourself sick.
00:57:09The Lord isn't going to desert us.
00:57:12So take a rest.
00:57:14Leave the work to him.
00:57:16If there was only some way
00:57:18you could handle Laidruns.
00:57:21For the sake of our Jewish people,
00:57:24I think you should go to him, Nathan.
00:57:28Gravel at his feet.
00:57:30All right.
00:57:31If you think so, I'll go.
00:57:33He must have his price.
00:57:35And whatever it is, I'll pay it.
00:57:43I'll make you gentlemen pay for your wine.
00:57:46The cards seem to favor you tonight, Your Excellency.
00:57:48Well, they should.
00:57:50They're my cards.
00:57:52Our Colonel, any news?
00:57:55Good news, Your Excellency.
00:57:58Dresden, entire ghetto reduced to ashes by fire.
00:58:02It is estimated that 5,000 Jewish refugees
00:58:05crossed the border into the Netherlands.
00:58:06I dispatched three agents to The Hague
00:58:08to stir up the populace there.
00:58:10Frankfurt.
00:58:11The citizens stormed the ghetto
00:58:12and fired two houses.
00:58:15A serious pogrom was prevented
00:58:17by the arrival of the Civic Guard.
00:58:19Who ordered out the Civic Guard?
00:58:20The Burgomaster, but he won't interfere again.
00:58:22We've explained Your Excellency's campaign.
00:58:28That's splendid news, Colonel.
00:58:30I have still better news for Your Excellency.
00:58:32Yes?
00:58:33Nathan Rothschild is in Frankfurt.
00:58:35He arrived from London last night.
00:58:39If he tries to leave,
00:58:41I want him arrested at the border
00:58:42and brought to me here.
00:58:44Yes, Your Excellency.
00:58:45Upon what grounds?
00:58:47Make your own grounds.
00:58:48Yes, Your Excellency.
00:58:50The house of Rothschild.
00:58:53The house with the red shield.
00:58:57I'll make it red.
00:59:25That's him.
00:59:25The one in the heavy coat.
00:59:27Good I am, sir.
00:59:28And I promise you I won't come back without an agreement from Laidrance to stop this Pope.
00:59:34Whatever the cost may be, may God be with me.
00:59:37Send word to stop his carriers as he starts to pass through the city gates.
00:59:41Seize him and place him under arrest. Quick.
00:59:46Mr. Rothschild! Mr. Rothschild!
00:59:48What is it, Schumann?
00:59:50This mess has just arrived with the office, sir. It's from Mr. Nathan.
00:59:52Me?
00:59:53Yes, sir.
01:00:05What is it?
01:00:06Napoleon has escaped from Elba.
01:00:09Yes, sir.
01:00:09The French will rally into his banner by thousands. This means war. Another war.
01:00:15Now you can go to Laidrance. Now he needs you.
01:00:19No, I won't go to Laidrance. Laidrance will come here to the ghetto.
01:00:26Michael, bring my baggage back. I'm not going.
01:00:29Very well, sir.
01:00:33Of course, Wellington, I am Prime Minister, but you are the idol of the people.
01:00:37My dear fellow, I am going to retire quietly to the country, surrounded by me dogs and me books and...
01:00:44Yes.
01:00:44For his grace.
01:00:45Ah. For me, eh?
01:00:48Will you excuse me?
01:00:49Yes, yes, yes.
01:00:53To the capital to the capital.
01:00:54That blusty little corsican is back.
01:00:57What?
01:01:00Oh, Lebron.
01:01:01I gave orders not to be disturbed.
01:01:03It's important, sir.
01:01:04It's important, sir.
01:01:04Word has just reached us.
01:01:06Napoleon has escaped.
01:01:07And he's in France mobilizing his army.
01:01:15Oh, my dear.
01:01:21Well, you're walking just like a young girl.
01:01:27Well, boys.
01:01:35Come here.
01:01:37Let's have another look at you.
01:01:41You're all growing up, aren't you?
01:01:44Nathan, I think you're getting fat.
01:01:46Oh.
01:01:49I'm proud of you.
01:01:51All of you.
01:01:53Your father would have been 92 today.
01:01:57Ours is the richest banking house in Europe, and we're still being kicked.
01:02:03It looks as though we haven't played our cards very well, doesn't it?
01:02:06Perhaps we haven't.
01:02:07I'm not criticizing.
01:02:09I think we're open to criticism, Mama.
01:02:11And that's what has brought us all together here today.
01:02:14Oh, is it?
01:02:15I thought you came here to see me.
01:02:17It seems it takes a war and a Jewish pogrom to get us all together nowadays.
01:02:23Now, that's not fair, Mama.
01:02:24You know where...
01:02:25Well, don't let's waste time and compliments.
01:02:28What have you come for?
01:02:32James.
01:02:34Nathan.
01:02:36You run the English house, and so you have the sea between you and Trouble.
01:02:40But we, Carl and Solomon and Amschel and I, are here in the furnace.
01:02:44Yes.
01:02:44I know.
01:02:45And with Napoleon on the map again, our position is intolerable.
01:02:49Napoleon will be in Paris in a week, with the whole army rallying to his banner and deserting Louis.
01:02:53Napoleon's soldiers must be paid, and if he can't borrow money, he'll take it.
01:02:58Has he suggested a loan?
01:03:00Yes.
01:03:01He sent for me as head of the Paris house.
01:03:04I went to see him in Lyon, and he made a definite proposal.
01:03:07Now, listen, Nathan, before you give an opinion.
01:03:09We've issued 450 million francs worth of bonds for a government which started packing at the first blast of a
01:03:16bugle.
01:03:18Napoleon guarantees the payment of these bonds down to the last centime, and on future loans, he agrees to double
01:03:23the interest offered by his enemies.
01:03:26What have the allies to offer us?
01:03:28From the simple standpoint of business, we shouldn't hesitate a day longer.
01:03:31A refusal to support Napoleon means not only the probable loss of a murderer's sum, but James's Paris business, my
01:03:37Naples business, will be wiped out like that.
01:03:39And Amschel's and Solomon's are in great danger.
01:03:41It's no longer a question with me.
01:03:42We should support Napoleon.
01:03:44As far as I can see, the allies seem to be under the thumb of a tyrant from Austria and
01:03:49a scoundrel from Prussia.
01:03:51Metternich and Laedrance.
01:03:52Malmö has said we are still being kicked, and she's right.
01:03:57For a quarter of a century we have stood with the allies, and apart from what we've got out of
01:04:01it personally, houses, fine clothes, carriages.
01:04:04As Jews, we are just where we started.
01:04:08In the Jew street, waiting for the chains to be put up.
01:04:12I agree with the others.
01:04:14We've got to transfer our support to Napoleon, and start over again with him.
01:04:22Well, son?
01:04:25You're right, all of you.
01:04:28Every word you've said is true.
01:04:30But still, we must fight Napoleon.
01:04:34Why?
01:04:36Well, because we are, we are the Rothschilds.
01:04:39For the time being, anyway, we are something more than five rich Jews looking for the main chance.
01:04:45We know, we know, the world knows, that until Napoleon is gone forever, there can be no peace in Europe
01:04:52for Jew or Gentile.
01:04:54You can't deny it, you can't deny it, any of you.
01:04:58We've got to take the risk.
01:05:00We've got to swallow our pride, to stomach our resentment.
01:05:04We've got to go against every normal, selfish impasse in us, and do what is right for the world.
01:05:10We can go hand in hand with Napoleon, and spread this war over years.
01:05:16We can pay for fire and blood, till all Europe is a slaughterhouse.
01:05:22And the Jew would stand as a pawnbroker in lives.
01:05:28We can't do it.
01:05:31We must stand as we've always stood, not for war, but for peace.
01:05:38And if we all go down, we'll go down with honor.
01:05:45We'll leave no shame anywhere.
01:05:49We'll leave no shame anywhere in the world.
01:05:51My son, that is what your father would have said.
01:05:57You're right.
01:05:58I agree.
01:06:15The house with the red shield, Your Excellency.
01:06:26The Philistines are upon us.
01:06:28Who is it?
01:06:30Metternich, Tulleran, and Laidrath.
01:06:37Who could that be, the tax collector?
01:06:39Something very like it, Mama.
01:06:45Is Mr. Nathan Rothschild here?
01:06:47Your Excellency will enter.
01:06:55This is a great pleasure.
01:06:57But how did you find your way?
01:07:00The Duke of Wellington was kind enough to supply us with a guide, Captain Fitzroy, who has, I believe, been
01:07:06here before.
01:07:10I want you to come in.
01:07:14And my brothers and I, we're speaking of you only this moment.
01:07:17I won't burden you with introductions, except perhaps to my mother, who was startled by your arrival.
01:07:25She thought you were the tax collector, Count Laidrath.
01:07:28Welcome to our ghetto.
01:07:31You will forgive this unexpected visit.
01:07:34Yes, certainly.
01:07:34We were expecting it.
01:07:36Then we may assume you know precisely why we are here.
01:07:39Not the precise amount, but approximately.
01:07:42May I congratulate you on your brilliant sons, Madame Rothschild.
01:07:45Yes, I'm told I'm the mother of half the loans in Europe.
01:07:50I am here at the request of the Duke of Wellington and the Allied governments.
01:07:54In that case, my brothers two are interested.
01:07:57Won't you sit down?
01:07:59We will not intrude very long.
01:08:01Well, you're chained in at six.
01:08:05Speaking for myself, I admit that I come as a penitent.
01:08:08We've not always treated you quite fairly, Nathan.
01:08:11And now, frankly, we need you.
01:08:14You should join Wellington on the field of battle.
01:08:17He once told me that the test of a great general is to know when to retreat
01:08:21and to have the courage to do it.
01:08:24The Allies need money.
01:08:26We're not asking you to give anything.
01:08:28You're moneylenders and you'll get your interest.
01:08:31You sure of that?
01:08:32Don't you trust the powers?
01:08:34No.
01:08:34Austria is bankrupt.
01:08:35France is already in the hands of Napoleon.
01:08:37And so is Italy.
01:08:38Why don't you go to the other bankers?
01:08:40Your own bankers.
01:08:42We have not sufficient capital.
01:08:43You mean they won't take the chance?
01:08:44What if Napoleon wins?
01:08:46I suppose there must be a certain amount of risk in your business.
01:08:49No, we ask security.
01:08:51What security can you offer us?
01:08:53Ah, then don't say you aren't asking us to give anything.
01:08:56You're asking us to give a great deal.
01:08:58I see no reason for prolonging this meeting.
01:09:00As you say, we are moneylenders, not philanthropists.
01:09:04We do it for profit.
01:09:06You may as well know that Napoleon has offered us twice as much as you can promise us.
01:09:11And we've decided to take his offer.
01:09:14Call it over to the enemy, eh?
01:09:15I must admit, I'm amazed.
01:09:17How will Napoleon get the money to pay you?
01:09:19Steal it.
01:09:20But that's not our business.
01:09:23I always thought you stood for peace.
01:09:26For 20 years we've been supporting the peace of Europe.
01:09:29Now we're thinking of the peace of our own people.
01:09:31The Jews?
01:09:32Yes.
01:09:33Napoleon will give us our freedom.
01:09:35That's why we are for Napoleon.
01:09:43Is that your only reason for deserting the Allies?
01:09:47I resent being cross-questioned by you, Count Lady Runceton.
01:09:51I think His Excellency was about to make a proposition.
01:09:58Well, if we gave you all the freedom that Napoleon could give you,
01:10:04would you then be willing to sacrifice the financial advantage of his offer?
01:10:09Count Lady Runceton, we are moneylenders.
01:10:12Come, come, Nathan, after all these years.
01:10:14What do you offer?
01:10:17What do you want?
01:10:20Brothers, may I speak for you?
01:10:22Yes.
01:10:25We require an agreement, a treaty, signed and guaranteed by your governments,
01:10:31giving to our people absolute freedom.
01:10:34In this agreement, they would lose their chains.
01:10:38They would have the right to follow any trade, to own land,
01:10:42to live with respect, and...
01:10:46Do you remember what our father said, Mama?
01:10:50To walk the world with dignity?
01:10:55I fear we will have to lay that before our respective governments.
01:10:59You are your respective governments, and you know it.
01:11:02The day this agreement is signed,
01:11:04the resources of the House of Rothschild will be at your command,
01:11:07and not before.
01:11:10Very well, we accept.
01:11:18Please excuse me, Madame.
01:11:20Some gentile has evidently strayed into our quarter.
01:11:29Goodbye, Granny. Goodbye, my precious.
01:11:33Goodbye, dear.
01:11:34Who's got my hat?
01:11:35Oh, here you are, Father.
01:11:37James.
01:11:38Father, I'll go on out the carriage with Michael.
01:11:40All right, my dear.
01:11:41James.
01:11:42It's of vital importance that we should have first-hand news from the field of battle.
01:11:47Somebody to be close to Wellington's troops.
01:11:49Whom can we trust?
01:11:50In time of war, nobody.
01:11:53What about you?
01:11:54Will you do it?
01:11:57Yes.
01:11:57Yes.
01:11:57I'll get word to you every day.
01:11:59Of every move they make.
01:12:01The instant they make it.
01:12:02And always by the usual method.
01:12:07Mama?
01:12:08I'll come to the door with you.
01:12:10Oh.
01:12:28You won't let it be a long war, will you?
01:12:32It shall be just as short as our money can make it.
01:12:52Good luck.
01:12:55Goodbye, Mama.
01:13:20It's a horse, dear.
01:13:25Good luck.
01:13:29This time I'm here by command of the Duke of Wellington, sir.
01:13:43Give me the ring quickly.
01:13:49Darling.
01:13:54Well.
01:13:58I must say, I hope the entire war isn't going to be conducted on this romantic basis.
01:14:15Seven-fifths right.
01:14:16I give Napoleon a hundred days.
01:14:18No longer.
01:14:19If at the end of that time you're still alive, and you seem to be the type of young man
01:14:24that can't be killed, you can come and talk to me in London.
01:14:26Thank you, sir.
01:14:28I shall count the days.
01:14:55Thank you, sir.
01:14:56Oh, my God.
01:15:42Nathan, the Times says there's a rumour that the Stock Exchange won't open today.
01:15:46I wish it were true, but it isn't.
01:15:51Hannah, sit down.
01:15:55When people become rich, very rich, they have grave responsibilities.
01:16:01I know.
01:16:02I mean moral responsibilities that come with money that poor people never know.
01:16:07Yes.
01:16:08Could you bear to be poor, really poor?
01:16:11I'm asking you now because tonight may be too late.
01:16:14Tell me what you mean.
01:16:15I'm buying on the Stock Exchange whenever everyone else is selling.
01:16:19I'm risking everything we have to save the credit of England.
01:16:22I'm sticking to the bargain I made.
01:16:25But things look bad for us, Hannah.
01:16:27Very bad.
01:16:29Are you doing what you feel you should do?
01:16:32Yes.
01:16:33Do what you think is right.
01:16:35And if you fail, I'll love you all the more.
01:16:43And whatever happens with your love and your flower in my buttonhole,
01:16:51I'll still be the richest man in the world.
01:16:56Father, Mr. Rose brought a message.
01:16:58May we hear it?
01:16:58It just came, sir.
01:16:59I thought you should have it before going to the exchange.
01:17:11Napoleon has thrown into our grand army against Wellington.
01:17:15James.
01:17:17Worse and worse.
01:17:24Poor Julie.
01:17:26These are hard times for young lovers.
01:17:31Father, you said you gave Napoleon a hundred days.
01:17:35This is the hundredth day.
01:17:38But it says he hasn't come back to me.
01:17:48Remember, I'm a magician.
01:17:51My day may be over,
01:17:53but I know there's a message of love and hope
01:17:56on its way for you.
01:18:19He will be over,
01:18:26but it says you are here.
01:18:40Am I to continue to buy?
01:18:43Yes.
01:18:43But it's sheer suicide, sir.
01:18:46I support the market.
01:18:48But we can't possibly keep it up, sir.
01:18:51How long?
01:18:51It's two hours to closing time.
01:18:55I can't hold on for two hours.
01:18:57Then stop this insane buying.
01:19:00No.
01:19:01I made a deal with Laidrance and the rest.
01:19:03And I won't go back on my word.
01:19:05Buy till we break.
01:19:06But do you realize, sir, that you're holding more than any man ever held in the history of the stock
01:19:11exchange?
01:19:11We've picked our horse.
01:19:12We're back at Lidrops.
01:19:14But here are messages from your brothers begging you to hold back.
01:19:16You're alone in your judgment.
01:19:18I am blind.
01:19:19Where will Europe be if England is bankrupt?
01:19:21And if I can't hold the market, England's credit is gone.
01:19:25But no one man can hold the nation's credit single-handed, Mr. Rothschild.
01:19:29One man can try.
01:19:32I'm fighting in the only way I can fight.
01:19:35With money.
01:19:36I'm giving all I've got to give for the peace of Europe.
01:19:40And whatever other Englishmen do tomorrow, I buy today.
01:19:44Mr. Rothschild, forgive me, but why are rumors reached the exchange that Wellington has been defeated?
01:19:49It can't be true.
01:19:50I used to have heard long ago.
01:19:51We owe so much to you.
01:19:52Will you do one thing more?
01:19:53Come and show yourself on the exchange.
01:19:55They say you're ruined and dare not face the music.
01:19:57There's a wild panic.
01:19:59Your presence may steady the market.
01:20:00I come.
01:20:28I come.
01:20:39Too late, Mr. Rothschild.
01:20:41You backed the wrong horse this time.
01:20:43Rothschild, you've lost your luck.
01:20:55Nigel.
01:20:58Fine.
01:21:01Fine.
01:21:03Yes, fine.
01:21:04Have you had any news?
01:21:05What do you think about this rumor?
01:21:06I don't listen to rumors, Mr. Baird.
01:21:08You hear what they say?
01:21:09Wellington defeated.
01:21:10You mind telling me what you're going to do.
01:21:11I have no objection to all London and what I'm going to do.
01:21:14I'm fine.
01:21:21Mrs. Rothschild asked me to give you this.
01:21:25Did she come here to the exchange?
01:21:28Sir?
01:21:29Yes.
01:21:30Good night.
01:21:38Good night.
01:21:38Good night.
01:21:51Good night.
01:21:51Good night.
01:21:52Good night.
01:21:52Hey, we're out.
01:21:57Are you going to come here?
01:21:59Come here.
01:22:07Look at rock, sir. Did you ever see such a cold-blooded fish?
01:22:11Puts a flower in his coat as he stands on the scaffold with a rope around his neck.
01:22:20News. Just arrived.
01:22:38Wellington victorious in Waterloo.
01:22:40Napoleon defeated. The war is over.
01:22:44Gentlemen, listen, listen.
01:22:48Abused. News from Waterloo.
01:22:51Napoleon is beaten.
01:22:54You've been over by.
01:22:55Don't play tricks on us.
01:22:57It is true. Wellington has won and won more.
01:23:01How did you get the new gear?
01:23:02How did you get the new gear?
01:23:04By carrier pigeon. By pigeon posts from the battlefield.
01:23:08Now you know our secret. Now will you buy.
01:23:11Buy it with every security you have.
01:23:14Buy it without security.
01:23:15Buy it with your clothes on your back.
01:23:17Buy it!
01:23:18Buy it!
01:23:19Buy it!
01:23:20Buy it!
01:23:21Come on!
01:23:22Come on!
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01:23:39Oh, Mr. Rothschild!
01:23:40Do tell me how it feels to be the richest man in the world.
01:23:44One has to be very clever to make a fortune these days.
01:23:47Perhaps, but far more clever to keep it.
01:23:52Really?
01:23:53Well, I wish you'd tell me how to make money on the stock exchange.
01:23:56Uh, what's the recipe?
01:23:58Oh, same as for a cold bath.
01:24:00Quick in and quick out.
01:24:02Excuse me.
01:24:11You're good.
01:24:12Take your hands out of your pockets.
01:24:14And it's pretty strange.
01:24:22It's strange, isn't it?
01:24:23If young people like that should be just as interested in romance, as you and I are.
01:24:32May I congratulate you, young people?
01:24:34Thank you, Your Grace.
01:24:36Clayton, you're worried about something.
01:24:38Yes, I am. I'm confoundedly worried.
01:24:40What is it?
01:24:41Well, Mr Rothschild, my congratulations.
01:24:43Harry, George, just the man I wanted to see. I'm very worried.
01:24:46Which knee do I kneel on when I go before His Royal Highness?
01:25:19Well, I've had nothing to say today.
01:25:20And I'm the one more to say no matter what your Royal Highness will be.
01:25:20I'm the one more to say no matter what your Royal Highness will be.
01:25:20When you're driving, I'm the one more to say no matter what your Royal Highness will be.
01:25:22Big, Big, Big, Big!
01:25:29That's my last name.
01:25:29England is deeply grateful to her adopted son,
01:25:33who by his generosity and courage
01:25:35played so large a part in bringing victory and peace to Europe.
01:25:41His loyalty never wavered.
01:25:43His faith in England never faltered.
01:25:46To England, he has brought nothing but honor.
01:25:48And for England, we thank you, Baron Nathan Rothschild.
01:25:59I know. I used the wrong knee.
01:26:12To trade with dignity.
01:26:15To live with dignity.
01:26:18To walk the world with dignity.
01:26:36To live with dignity.
01:26:42To live with dignity.
01:26:42To live with dignity.
01:26:42To live with dignity.