0:00:20 > 0:00:24NARRATOR: 'The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28'Their splendour lasted throughout all the years
0:00:28 > 0:00:32'that saw their midland town spread and darken into a city.
0:00:32 > 0:00:37'In that town in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet
0:00:37 > 0:00:40'knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet
0:00:40 > 0:00:44'and everybody knew everybody else's family horse and carriage.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48'The only public conveyance was the streetcar.'
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Yoo-hoo!
0:00:48 > 0:00:53'A lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window and it would wait
0:00:53 > 0:00:58'while she shut the window, put on her hat and coat, went downstairs,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02'found an umbrella, told the girl what to have for dinner
0:01:02 > 0:01:05'and came forth from the house.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07'Too slow for us nowadays
0:01:07 > 0:01:12'because the faster we're carried, the less time we have to spare.'
0:01:12 > 0:01:17'In earlier years, while bangs and bustles had their way with women,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19'there were men of all ages to whom
0:01:19 > 0:01:24'a hat meant only that tall thing, known to impudence as a stovepipe.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28'But the long contagion of the Derby had arrived.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31'One season the crown of his hat would be a bucket,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34'the next it would be a spoon.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38'Every house still kept a bootjack but high-topped boots
0:01:38 > 0:01:42'gave way to shoes and gaiters which went through fashions
0:01:42 > 0:01:45'that shaped them now with toes like box ends,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48'now like the prows of racing shells.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50'Trousers with a crease were plebian.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54'It proved they'd lain on a shelf and were ready-made.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58'With evening dress a gentleman wore a tan overcoat,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02'so short that his black coat-tails hung five inches below it.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06'But after a season or two he lengthened it to his heels
0:02:06 > 0:02:09'and he passed out of his tight trousers
0:02:09 > 0:02:12'into trousers like great bags.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17'In those days they had time for everything.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19'Time for sleigh rides
0:02:19 > 0:02:23'and balls and assemblies and cotillions...
0:02:23 > 0:02:25'and open house on New Year's
0:02:25 > 0:02:27'and all-day picnics in the woods
0:02:27 > 0:02:32'and even that prettiest of all banished customs - the serenade.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37'Of a summer night, men would bring an orchestra under a girl's window
0:02:37 > 0:02:41'and flute, harp, fiddle, cello, cornet and bass viol
0:02:41 > 0:02:44'would release their melodies to the stars.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51'Against so homespun a background,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53'the magnificence of the Ambersons
0:02:53 > 0:02:58'was as conspicuous as a brass band at a funeral.'
0:02:58 > 0:03:01- There it is! - The Amberson mansion!
0:03:01 > 0:03:03The pride of the town!
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Well, well!
0:03:03 > 0:03:0660,000 for the woodwork alone!
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Hot and cold running water.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Upstairs and down.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12And stationary washstands in every bedroom.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14BELL
0:03:18 > 0:03:23Is Miss Amberson at home?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23No, sir, Mr Morgan. Miss Amberson's not home.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Thanks, Sam.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31BELL
0:03:35 > 0:03:39No, sir. Miss Amberson ain't at home to you, Mr Morgan.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Thanks.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- I guess she's still mad at him. - Who?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- Isabel. - Major Amberson's daughter.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50'Eugene Morgan's her best beau.'
0:03:50 > 0:03:53'Took a bit too much to drink the other night
0:03:53 > 0:03:58'and stepped clean through the bass fiddle serenade!'
0:03:58 > 0:04:01'I haven't seen her since her trip abroad.'
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Abel, Wilson, I don't know as I knows how to put it but she's...
0:04:05 > 0:04:07She's kind of a...
0:04:07 > 0:04:10'delightful-looking young lady.'
0:04:13 > 0:04:14WHISTLE
0:04:26 > 0:04:30'Wilbur? Wilbur Minafer? I never thought he'd get her.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32'Well, what do you know?'
0:04:32 > 0:04:37Wilbur may not be any Apollo but he's a steady young businessman.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41- Wilbur Minafer?- She's sensible for such a showy girl.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44To think of her taking him!
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Just because a man anyone would like better went wild one night.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52She minds his making a clown of himself in her front yard.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Made her think he didn't care about her.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58She's probably mistaken but it's too late now.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01The wedding will be a big Amberson thing.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Oysters in scooped-out blocks of ice, a band from out of town.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Wilbur will take Isabel on the carefullest wedding trip
0:05:09 > 0:05:12and she'll be a good wife.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16But they'll have the worst spoiled children this town will ever see.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20How do you figure that, Mrs Foster?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20She couldn't love Wilbur.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Well, it will all go to her children. And she'll ruin them.
0:05:24 > 0:05:29NARRATOR: 'The prophetess was mistaken in a single detail.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33'Wilbur and Isabel did not have children. They had only one.'
0:05:33 > 0:05:37'Only one. But he's spoiled enough for a whole carload!'
0:05:37 > 0:05:40'She found none to challenge her.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44'George Amberson Minafer, the Major's one grandchild,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46'was a princely terror.'
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Hey! By...golly, I guess you think you own this town!
0:05:50 > 0:05:54'There were people, grown people they were,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57'who expressed themselves longingly.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59'They hoped to live to see the day
0:05:59 > 0:06:02'when that boy would get his comeuppance.'
0:06:02 > 0:06:05His what?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05His comeuppance.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10Something's bound to take him down someday. I only want to be there.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15Look at that girly curly! Why'd you steal your mother's old sash?!
0:06:15 > 0:06:20Your sister stole it for me! She stole it off a clothesline for me!
0:06:20 > 0:06:24You get your hair cut! And I haven't got any sister!
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Not at home! I mean, the one that's in jail!
0:06:27 > 0:06:32I dare you to get out of that trap!
0:06:29 > 0:06:32I dare you to come outside the gate!
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Come in here, I dare you!
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Here I come!
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Boy!
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Boy!
0:06:45 > 0:06:47BOYS SHOUT
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Hey, boy!
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Boy! Boy!
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Enough of that!
0:06:56 > 0:06:58You stop that, you!
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Ow! - Don't you know who I am?!
0:07:02 > 0:07:06- You're a disgrace to your mother! - You shut up!
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Ow! She ought to be ashamed, a bad little boy like you!
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Pull down your vest and wipe off your chin and...go to -!
0:07:14 > 0:07:15What?!
0:07:15 > 0:07:18'This was heard not only by myself
0:07:18 > 0:07:21'but by my wife and the lady next door.'
0:07:21 > 0:07:25He's an old liar.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Georgie, you mustn't say "liar".
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Dear, did you say what he says you did?
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Grandpa wouldn't wipe his shoe on that old storyteller.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Georgie, you mustn't.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38We Ambersons wouldn't have anything to do with him.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38We're not talking about that.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42If he wanted to see us, he'd have to use the side door.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42HE LAUGHS
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Please, Father.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48He doesn't seem a tactful person.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48He's just riffraff.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50You mustn't say so.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54You must promise me never to use those bad words.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I promise not to.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Unless I get mad at somebody.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Wait till they send him away to school! Then he'll get it!
0:08:05 > 0:08:08They'll knock the stuffing out of him.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11'But he returned with the same stuffing.'
0:08:11 > 0:08:13- CRACK! - Ow!
0:08:13 > 0:08:16SHOUTS INSULTS
0:08:18 > 0:08:20'When Mr George Amberson Minafer
0:08:20 > 0:08:25'came home for the holidays in his sophomore year,
0:08:25 > 0:08:29'nothing about him encouraged hope that he'd received his comeuppance.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32'Cards were out for a ball in his honour
0:08:32 > 0:08:35'and this pageant of the tenantry
0:08:35 > 0:08:38'was the last of the great long-remembered dances
0:08:38 > 0:08:41'that everybody talked about.'
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Lovett!
0:08:56 > 0:08:58..by that big bow window.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02I s'pose that's where they'll put the Major when his time comes.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Don't look at me like that, Major!
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Georgie, you look fine!
0:09:07 > 0:09:11There was a time, though, in your fourth month,
0:09:11 > 0:09:15that you were so puny nobody thought you'd live!
0:09:15 > 0:09:17I remember you very well indeed.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Isabel?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Eugene!
0:09:19 > 0:09:22This your boy, Isabel?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26George, this is Mr Morgan.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I remember you very well.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29You never saw me before! But from now on you will.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32I hope.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32I hope so, too, Eugene.
0:09:32 > 0:09:39Where's Wilbur?
0:09:34 > 0:09:39In the game room. He never was much for parties, remember?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Yes. I remember.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43I'll come back for a dance.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Please do.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Eugene Morgan, Major Amberson.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Well, well, well.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I remember you very well indeed.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Miss Morgan.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55I remember you very well indeed.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00You don't remember her either, Georgie. But, of course, you will.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Miss Morgan's from out of town.
0:10:02 > 0:10:08Take her up to the dancing. You've done your duty here.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08I'd be delighted.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14What did you say your name was?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Morgan.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18I'm glad you're back.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18It's nice to be back, too, Jack.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Who's that?
0:10:20 > 0:10:24I didn't catch his name. The queer-looking duck?
0:10:24 > 0:10:28The who?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Queer-looking duck.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28I wouldn't say that.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31The other is Uncle Jack. Everybody knows him.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35He looks like everyone ought to. It runs in your family.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Most everybody knows him.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Out in this part of the country.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Uncle Jack is well known. He's a Congressman.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Oh, really?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Oh, yes.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49The family always liked to have someone in Congress.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Hello, Lucy.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Hello, Lucy.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Hello, Lucy.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58How'd they get to know you so quick?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58I've been here a week.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01You've been pretty busy. Most...
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Hello, Lucy.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Most of them, I don't know why Mother invited them.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Don't you like them?
0:11:08 > 0:11:12I used to be president of a club some of them were in.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16But I don't care for such things now. Why did Mother invite them?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Maybe she didn't want to offend their parents.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23She needn't worry about offending anybody.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27It must be wonderful, Mr Amberson - Mr Minafer.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30What must be wonderful?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30To be so important.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Oh, that isn't... Good evening.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Anybody that is anybody ought to do as they like in their own town.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Hello!
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Well, how's that for a bit of freshness?!
0:11:43 > 0:11:47What was?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47The queer-looking duck waving at me.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49He meant me.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Oh, he did? Everybody seems to mean you.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57See here, are you engaged to anybody?
0:11:57 > 0:11:58No.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01You know a good many people.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Papa does. He lived here before I was born.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Where do you live now?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07We've lived all over.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Why do you keep moving around so? Is he a promoter?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13No, he's an inventor.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Oh? What has he invented? Grandfather.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20He's working on a new kind of horseless carriage.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Horseless carriage? Automobile? Well, well!
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Don't you approve of them, Mr Minafer?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Oh, yes. They're all right.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32You know, I'm beginning to understand.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Understand what?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36What?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38What it means to be a real Amberson.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43Papa told me something about it but I see he didn't say half enough.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Did your father say he knew us?
0:12:46 > 0:12:49He wasn't boasting of it. He was quite calm.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Most girls are usually fresh.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56They ought to go to a man's college. They'll learn about freshness!
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Who sent you those flowers you're fussing over?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- Lucy! - He did.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04- Who's he? - The queer-looking duck.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06I've come for that dance.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10Oh, him. I suppose he's some old widower!
0:13:10 > 0:13:15Yes, he is a widower. I ought to have said before. He's my father.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Oh. Well, that's a horse on me. If I'd known...
0:13:18 > 0:13:22This is our dance. But I guess I won't insist on it.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26George, are you enjoying the party?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Yes, Mother, very much.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Will you please excuse us? Miss Morgan?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Eggnog, anybody?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Not for me, sir.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37I see you kept your promise.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Isabel, I remember the last drink Gene ever had.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43I believe if you hadn't broken that bass fiddle,
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Isabel never would've taken Wilbur.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51What do you think, Wilbur?
0:13:47 > 0:13:51I shouldn't be surprised, so I'm glad he did.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53What do you say, Isabel?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56My dear, you're blushing!
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Who wouldn't blush?
0:13:58 > 0:14:03- FANNY: - The important thing is that Wilbur got her and kept her.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07There's another important thing - for me.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11It's the only thing that makes me forgive that bass viol.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- JACK: - Well, what's that?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Lucy.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16You having a good time?
0:14:16 > 0:14:21Ever gave up smoking?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21No, sir.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21I've got some Havanas.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Your ears burn, young lady?
0:14:24 > 0:14:28Would you care for refreshments?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Yes, thanks.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31What did you say your name was?
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Morgan.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Funny name.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Everybody else's name always is.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40Not really funny. That's just one of our bits of horsing at college.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42I meant your first name.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Lucy.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Well!
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Is Lucy a funny name, too?
0:14:48 > 0:14:51No. Lucy is very much all right.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Thanks.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Here they are, Henry!
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Thanks for what?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58About letting my name be Lucy.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02I've got this dance with her.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05With who?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05With Isabel, of course.
0:15:05 > 0:15:1018 years have passed. Have you danced with poor old Fanny, too?
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Twice.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Old times are starting over again.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18There aren't old times. Times that have gone aren't old, they're dead.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21There aren't any times but new times.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33What are you studying in school?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33I beg your pardon?
0:15:33 > 0:15:37What are you studying in school?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37College. Lots of useless guff.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Why don't you study useful guff?
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Useful?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Something for your profession.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I don't intend to have a profession.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47- No? - No.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Why not?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Well, just look at them.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55That's a fine career for a man(!) Lawyers, bankers, politicians.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58What do they ever get out of life?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01What do they know about real things?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03What do they ever get?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05What do you want to be?
0:16:06 > 0:16:08A yachtsman.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22SLOW WALTZ
0:16:30 > 0:16:33They always break down.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33They do not!
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Of course they do.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Horseless carriages! Automobiles!
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Hm?
0:16:39 > 0:16:44People won't spend their lives on the road with grease on their faces.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47I think your father better forget about it.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Papa would be grateful for your advice(!)
0:16:50 > 0:16:54I haven't done anything to be insulted for.
0:16:54 > 0:16:59I don't mind your being such a lofty person. I think it's interesting.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02But Papa's a great man.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Is he? Well, let us hope so.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04I hope so, I'm sure.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12How lovely your mother is.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14I think she is.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18She's so graceful. She dances like a girl of 16.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Most girls of 16 are bad dancers.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Anyhow, I wouldn't dance with one unless I had to.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Er, the snow's fine for sleighing.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32I'll be by for you in the cutter ten minutes after two.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Tomorrow? I can't.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35MUSIC STOPS
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Bravo! Bravissimo!
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Papa.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Lucy.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I'll get your things.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43I'll sit at your gate
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and if you try to go with anyone, he must whip me first.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51Take this in case you break down in that horseless carriage.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Uncle Jack. Come here.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Fanny, where are you going?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Oh, just out to look.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Well?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Oh, nothing.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Hold this.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Who is this fellow, Morgan?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08He's a man with a pretty daughter.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11He certainly seems to feel at home here,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14the way he danced with Mother and Aunt Fanny.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Well, I'm afraid your Aunt Fanny's heart
0:18:18 > 0:18:21was stirred by ancient recollections.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26You mean she was silly about him?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Oh, she wasn't considered singular.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28He was... He was popular.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33Are you so interested in the parents of every girl you dance with?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Oh, dry up. I only wanted to know.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Lucy, about that sleigh ride...
0:18:38 > 0:18:42I want to look at your automobile carriage, Gene.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Fanny, you'll get cold.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47Good night, Isabel.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Good night, Eugene.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52You'll be ready.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52No, I won't.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52You will. Ten minutes after two.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Yes, I will.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- JACK: - Gene, show us how it works!
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Come on, Lucy!
0:19:00 > 0:19:02I'm coming, Papa!
0:19:02 > 0:19:05I hope you're going to be warm enough.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Papa?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Huh?
0:19:16 > 0:19:20You think George is terribly arrogant and domineering?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22He's still only a boy.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Plenty of fine stuff in him.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Can't help but be. He's Isabel Amberson's son.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36You liked her pretty well once, I guess, Papa.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Yes. Do still.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41That isn't all that's worrying you.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Well, I've been a little bothered about your father.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Why?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48He looks so badly.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51He's no different to normal.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55He's worried about investments he made last year.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57I think it's affected his health.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01What investments? Not in Morgan's automobile concern?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Oh, no. That is all Eugene's.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Your father's rolling mills...
0:20:07 > 0:20:11Hello, dear. Have you had trouble sleeping?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14About Morgan and his sewing machine.
0:20:14 > 0:20:19He wants Grandfather to invest. Is that what he's up to?
0:20:19 > 0:20:24You silly! Eugene Morgan can finance his own inventions these days.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27I bet he borrows from Uncle Jack.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Georgie, why do you say such things?
0:20:29 > 0:20:33He just strikes me as that sort. Isn't he, Father?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35A fairly wild fellow 20 years ago.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39He was like you in one thing - he spent too much.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Only he didn't have a mother to get money for him.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47He's done well. He doesn't need help to back his automobile.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51What's he brought it here for?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51I'm sure I don't know. Ask him.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53I'll be in to say goodnight.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Aunt Fanny!
0:20:58 > 0:21:00What is the matter with you?
0:21:00 > 0:21:05Do you know why he doesn't want to go on that horseless carriage trip?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07What do you mean?
0:21:07 > 0:21:10You're his only sister and you don't know?
0:21:10 > 0:21:14He never likes to go anywhere that I ever heard of.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17What is the matter with you?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21He doesn't want to go because he doesn't like Morgan.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Oh, good gracious!
0:21:23 > 0:21:28Eugene Morgan isn't in your father's thoughts at all. Why should he be?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30You two at it again?
0:21:30 > 0:21:34What makes everybody so excited over this man Morgan?
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Oh, shut up.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Excited? Can't...
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Can't people be glad to see an old friend
0:21:40 > 0:21:45without silly children like you having to make a to-do about it?
0:21:47 > 0:21:52I've just suggested that your mother might give a dinner for them.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56For who?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56For whom, Georgie.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58"For whom, Georgie"(!)
0:22:00 > 0:22:03For Mr Morgan and his daughter.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07Look here, don't do that. Mother mustn't do that.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09"Mother mustn't do that"(!)
0:22:09 > 0:22:12It wouldn't look well.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12"It wouldn't look well"(!)
0:22:13 > 0:22:19See here, Georgie Minafer, I suggest that you just march into your room!
0:22:19 > 0:22:24Sometimes you say things that show you have a pretty mean little mind!
0:22:24 > 0:22:27What upset you?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Shut up! >
0:22:27 > 0:22:31I know what you mean! You're saying I got Isabel to invite him for me!
0:22:31 > 0:22:35I'm gonna move to a hotel! >
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Because he's a widower.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37What?
0:22:36 > 0:22:37"What?"(!)
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Ha ha...
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Heh-heh-heh(!)
0:22:40 > 0:22:45I'm saying you're setting your cap for him and getting Mother to help?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Oh!
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Is that what you mean?
0:22:51 > 0:22:53< You attend to your own affairs!
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Well, I will be shot...
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I will. I certainly will be shot.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- < Oh! - Oh!
0:23:01 > 0:23:03GEORGE LAUGHS
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Do you think you'll get it to start?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23What's wrong with it, Gene?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23I wish I knew.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40ENGINE TURNS OVER
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Get a horse! Get a horse!
0:24:07 > 0:24:10What happened to them?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Are you all right?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Georgie!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25They're all right, Isabel.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27The snow bank's a feather bed.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29I'm fine, Papa.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Oh, Georgie!
0:24:30 > 0:24:32They're all right, Isabel.
0:24:32 > 0:24:38You're not hurt, Lucy?
0:24:33 > 0:24:38Georgie...
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Don't make a fuss, Mother. Please.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39I'm all right.
0:24:39 > 0:24:45Are you sure? One doesn't realise the shock. You've got to be sure.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Let me brush you off.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53You look bright, Lucy. Snow becomes you.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53That's right!
0:24:53 > 0:24:55That darn horse.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58He'll be home long before we will.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00All we've got is this machine.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03ENGINE HALTS
0:25:02 > 0:25:03ALL: Oh!
0:25:03 > 0:25:05All aboard!
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Dab the snow off. You mustn't be wet.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16I'm not wet. Get in. You're standing in the snow.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20You're the same Isabel - a divinely ridiculous woman.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24George, you'll push her to get started?
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Push?
0:25:25 > 0:25:29"Divinely" and "ridiculous" balance each other.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Plus one and minus one equal nothing.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34So I'm nothing in particular?
0:25:34 > 0:25:38That doesn't seem to be precisely what I meant.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40ENGINE TURNS OVER
0:25:47 > 0:25:49HE COUGHS
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Come on, Georgie, push!
0:25:52 > 0:25:53I'm pushing!
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Push harder!
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Come on, Georgie, push!
0:26:17 > 0:26:19What do you think I'm doing?
0:26:21 > 0:26:25Your father wanted to prove it would run in snow.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29It really does, too. It's so interesting.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34He says he'll have wheels made of rubber, blown up with air.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I should think they'd explode.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38HE COUGHS
0:26:38 > 0:26:40It's so like old times to hear him.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45< ALL SING
0:26:42 > 0:26:45# ..Broke the bank at Monte Carlo! #
0:26:53 > 0:26:57# ..independent air, hear the girls declare, be a millionaire... #
0:26:57 > 0:27:00EUGENE: Be a millionaire!
0:26:58 > 0:27:00ALL LAUGH
0:27:00 > 0:27:03George, you tried to swing underneath me
0:27:03 > 0:27:05and break my fall when we went over.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08It was nice of you.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11It wasn't a big fall. How about that kiss?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13# ..hear them sigh, wish to die
0:27:13 > 0:27:16# See them wink the other eye
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- OFF-KEY: - # At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo!
0:27:19 > 0:27:22# As I...
0:27:22 > 0:27:25# Walked along the Bois de Boulogne with an independent air
0:27:25 > 0:27:30# You hear the girls declare, to be a millionaire... #
0:27:48 > 0:27:50MUFFLED BELL
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Wilbur Minafer.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Quiet man.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Town will hardly know he's gone.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53THUNDER
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Where did Isabel go to?
0:29:00 > 0:29:02She was tired.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05It never was becoming to her to look pale.
0:29:05 > 0:29:06Look out.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Oh, boy. Strawberry shortcake.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11First of the season.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Hope it's big enough.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16You knew I was coming home.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16Hm.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18What did you say?
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Nothing.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Mmm.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26Sweet enough?
0:29:24 > 0:29:26Fine.
0:29:28 > 0:29:33I suppose your mother's been gay at the commencement? Going a lot?
0:29:33 > 0:29:37How could she, in mourning? All she can do is look glum.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40That's all Lucy could do, too.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42How did Lucy get home?
0:29:42 > 0:29:44The train with the rest of us.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47Quit bolting your food.
0:29:55 > 0:30:00Did you drive out to their house with her before you came here?
0:30:00 > 0:30:03No. She went home with her father.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Oh, I see.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Don't eat so fast, George.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12THUNDER
0:30:14 > 0:30:19So, er... Eugene came to the station to meet you?
0:30:21 > 0:30:23To meet us?
0:30:23 > 0:30:25How could he?
0:30:26 > 0:30:29I don't know what you mean.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31THUNDER
0:30:32 > 0:30:35Want some more milk?
0:30:33 > 0:30:35No, thanks.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41I haven't seen him while your mother's been away.
0:30:41 > 0:30:45Naturally. He's been east himself.
0:30:45 > 0:30:50Did you see him?
0:30:46 > 0:30:50Naturally, since he made the trip home with us.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53He did? He was with you all the time?
0:30:53 > 0:30:57Uh-uh. Only on the train in the last three days before we left.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59Uncle Jack got him to come along.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01You're gonna get fat.
0:31:01 > 0:31:06I can't help that. You're such a wonderful housekeeper.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08You know how to make things taste good.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Hmm.
0:31:10 > 0:31:15You won't stay single if some of the widowers...
0:31:13 > 0:31:15It's a little odd.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17THUNDER
0:31:17 > 0:31:19What's odd?
0:31:19 > 0:31:23Your mother's not saying that Mr Morgan had been along.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26I'll tell you something in confidence.
0:31:26 > 0:31:27What?
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Mr Morgan was looking pretty absentminded.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32And he is dressing better.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36He isn't dressing better, he's dressing up.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40Fanny, you ought to be encouraging when a prized bachelor
0:31:40 > 0:31:44shows by his haberdashery what he wants you to think about him.
0:31:44 > 0:31:49Jack says the factory is doing quite well.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49Quite well?
0:31:49 > 0:31:52Aunt Fanny, I think he'll declare his intentions
0:31:52 > 0:31:56and ask my permission to pay his addresses to you...
0:31:56 > 0:31:58SHE SOBS
0:31:59 > 0:32:03Oh, Aunt Fanny...
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Oh, Fanny, we were only teasing.
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Oh, let me alone!
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Please...
0:32:04 > 0:32:07We didn't mean anything.
0:32:07 > 0:32:11Please let me alone!
0:32:08 > 0:32:11I didn't know you were so sensitive.
0:32:17 > 0:32:22It's getting so you can't joke with her about anything any more.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Since we found that Father's estate was washed up
0:32:25 > 0:32:27and he didn't leave anything.
0:32:27 > 0:32:32I thought she'd feel better when we turned over his insurance to her.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35Gave it to her without any strings.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37But now...
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Yeah.
0:32:42 > 0:32:47Think maybe we've been teasing her about the wrong things.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Fanny hasn't got much in her life.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56You know, George, just being an aunt
0:32:56 > 0:33:01isn't really the great career it may sometimes seem to be.
0:33:01 > 0:33:05I really don't know of anything much Fanny has got.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Except her feeling about Eugene.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10BANGING ON METAL
0:33:13 > 0:33:16They're turning out a car and a quarter a day.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Isn't that marvellous?!
0:33:17 > 0:33:19What's marvellous?
0:33:19 > 0:33:23They're turning out a car and a quarter a day.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Mother, I don't get it.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28All this noise and smell seem to be good for you.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31You ought to come every time you get the blues.
0:33:31 > 0:33:35The blues? I never knew a person of a more easy disposition.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38I wish I could be more like that.
0:33:38 > 0:33:42Wouldn't anyone be glad to see a friend take an idea out of the air,
0:33:42 > 0:33:45an idea people laugh at him for,
0:33:45 > 0:33:48and make such a splendid thing as this factory?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Remember this? Our first machine.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54The original Morgan Invincible.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56I remember.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58FANNY: How quaint.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01Of course I'm happy. So very, very happy.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Look at the Morgan now.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06It's beautiful. Just beautiful.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Did you ever see anything so lovely?
0:34:09 > 0:34:12As what?
0:34:10 > 0:34:12As your mother. She's a darling.
0:34:12 > 0:34:17Papa looks as if he were going to either explode or utter loud sounds.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21It's just glorious. It makes us all happy, Eugene.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Give him your hand, Fanny.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26There. If brother Jack were here,
0:34:26 > 0:34:31Eugene would have his three oldest and best friends congratulating him.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34We know what Jack thinks about it, though.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39I used to write verse about 20 years ago. Remember that?
0:34:39 > 0:34:41I remember that, too.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44I'm almost thinking I could do it again.
0:34:44 > 0:34:50To thank you for making a factory visit into such a kind celebration.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Isabel, dear...
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Yes, Eugene?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Don't you think you should tell George?
0:35:03 > 0:35:06About us?
0:35:05 > 0:35:06Yes.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09There's still time.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12I think he should hear it from you.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16He will, dearest.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19Soon.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Soon.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34I'll still take a horse any day.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41- Whoa. - Oh, don't.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45Do you want to trot his legs off?
0:35:43 > 0:35:45No, but...
0:35:45 > 0:35:51No, but what?
0:35:46 > 0:35:51You make him walk so you can give your attention to proposing again.
0:35:51 > 0:35:56Do let Pendennis trot.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56I won't.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Get up, Pendennis. Trot. Commence!
0:35:56 > 0:36:00Lucy, you are the prettiest thing in this world.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03When are you going to say we're really engaged?
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Not for years. So there's the answer.
0:36:07 > 0:36:12Lucy, what's the matter? You look as if you're gonna cry.
0:36:12 > 0:36:17You always do whenever I can get you to talk about marrying me.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20I know it.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Well, why do you?
0:36:20 > 0:36:24One reason is because I feel it's never going to be.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27You haven't any reason or...
0:36:25 > 0:36:27It's just a feeling.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31I don't know. Everything is so unsettled.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35If you aren't the queerest girl. What's unsettled?
0:36:35 > 0:36:39For one thing, you haven't decided on anything to do yet.
0:36:39 > 0:36:41At least, you've never spoken of it.
0:36:41 > 0:36:47Haven't you understood that I'm not going into business or a profession?
0:36:47 > 0:36:49What are you going to do?
0:36:49 > 0:36:52Why, I expect to lead an honourable life.
0:36:52 > 0:36:57I expect to contribute to charities and take part in...movements.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00What kind?
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Whatever appeals to me.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04I shall revert to my original question.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04No, George. I think we -
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Your father's a businessman.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08A mechanical genius.
0:37:08 > 0:37:14He thinks I ought to go into business before you're engaged?
0:37:12 > 0:37:14No. I've not spoken to him about it.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18But you know that's how he feels?
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Yes.
0:37:18 > 0:37:23I wouldn't be much of a man if I let another man dictate my way of life.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Who is dictating your way of life?
0:37:25 > 0:37:28I don't believe in the whole world
0:37:28 > 0:37:33scrubbing dishes, selling potatoes or trying law cases.
0:37:33 > 0:37:37I don't like your father's ideals any more than he does mine.
0:37:37 > 0:37:38George.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40Get up, Pendennis.
0:37:42 > 0:37:47Well, he seems to have recovered. Looks in good spirits.
0:37:47 > 0:37:48I beg your pardon?
0:37:48 > 0:37:53Your grandson. Last night he seemed inclined to melancholy.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55What about?
0:37:55 > 0:38:00Not getting emotional about all the money he spent at college, is he?
0:38:00 > 0:38:03I wonder what he thinks I'm made of.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07Gold. And he's right about that part of you, Father.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10What part?
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Your heart.
0:38:10 > 0:38:16I suppose that may account for how heavy it feels nowadays sometimes.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20This town seems to be rolling riot
0:38:20 > 0:38:24over that old heart you mentioned just now, Jack.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27Rolling over it and burying it under.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32- MAJOR: - I miss my best girl.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36We all do. Lucy is on a visit. She's with a school friend.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38She'll be back Monday.
0:38:38 > 0:38:43George, why didn't you say? Not a word about Lucy's going away.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Probably afraid to.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49Georgie might cry if he tried to speak of it.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Isn't that so, Georgie? >
0:38:51 > 0:38:54Didn't Lucy tell you?
0:38:52 > 0:38:54She told me.
0:38:54 > 0:38:59Georgie didn't approve. I suppose you two aren't speaking again! >
0:38:59 > 0:39:04I hear someone's opened a horseless carriage shop in the suburbs.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07I suppose they'll drive you out of business.
0:39:07 > 0:39:11Or you'll get together and drive us off the streets.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15We'll even it up by making the streets bigger.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Streets will go to the county line.
0:39:17 > 0:39:21I hope you're wrong. If people move that far,
0:39:21 > 0:39:24real estate values in town will be stretched thin.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28So your devilish machines are going to ruin us all. >
0:39:28 > 0:39:31You think they'll change the land?
0:39:31 > 0:39:37They're already doing it and it can't be stopped. Automobiles...
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Automobiles are a useless nuisance.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45What did you say, George?
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Automobiles are a useless nuisance!
0:39:45 > 0:39:48They had no business to be invented.
0:39:48 > 0:39:53< You forget Mr Morgan makes them. And did his share in inventing them.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58If you weren't so thoughtless, he might think you offensive.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06With all their speed forward,
0:40:06 > 0:40:09they may be a step backward in civilisation.
0:40:09 > 0:40:13It may be that they won't add to the beauty of the world
0:40:13 > 0:40:15or the life of men's souls.
0:40:15 > 0:40:19I'm not sure. But automobiles have come.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24And almost all outward things are going to be different
0:40:24 > 0:40:26because of what they bring.
0:40:26 > 0:40:31They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace.
0:40:31 > 0:40:36Men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of them.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38It may be that George is right.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42It may be that in ten or 20 years from now,
0:40:42 > 0:40:46if we can see the inward change in man by then,
0:40:46 > 0:40:49I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine
0:40:49 > 0:40:52but would have to agree with George
0:40:52 > 0:40:56that automobiles had no business to be invented.
0:41:01 > 0:41:02Major.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04If you'll excuse me.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06Fanny.
0:41:06 > 0:41:07Isabel.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09I've got to run down to the shop.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13I'll see you to the door.
0:41:10 > 0:41:13Don't bother. I know the way.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15FANNY: I'll come, too.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34Georgie, dear, what did you mean?
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Just what I said.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36He was hurt.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41Don't see why he should be. I didn't say anything about him.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44He didn't seem hurt. Seemed cheerful.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48What made you think he was hurt?
0:41:46 > 0:41:48I know him.
0:41:56 > 0:42:01By Jove, Georgie, you are a puzzle.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01In what way?
0:42:01 > 0:42:04It's a new style, courting a pretty girl,
0:42:04 > 0:42:08for a fellow to deliberately make an enemy of her father
0:42:08 > 0:42:10by attacking his business.
0:42:10 > 0:42:13By Jove! It's a new way of winning a woman.
0:42:21 > 0:42:25George, you struck just the right treatment to adopt.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Oh, what do you want?
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Your father would thank you.
0:42:28 > 0:42:33Quit the mysterious detective stuff.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33But I approve of what you're doing.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37What is wrong with you?
0:42:34 > 0:42:37You're always picking on me, always.
0:42:37 > 0:42:38Oh, my gosh...
0:42:38 > 0:42:42You wouldn't treat anybody like this except Fanny.
0:42:42 > 0:42:47You say, "It's nobody but Fanny so I'll kick her. Nobody will mind."
0:42:47 > 0:42:51You're right. I haven't got anything since my brother died.
0:42:51 > 0:42:52Oh, my gosh...
0:42:52 > 0:42:55I never would have told you about it
0:42:55 > 0:42:58if I hadn't seen that somebody else had told you.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Somebody else had told me what?
0:43:01 > 0:43:04How people are talking about your mother.
0:43:09 > 0:43:14What did you say?
0:43:10 > 0:43:14I understood what you were doing by being rude to Eugene.
0:43:14 > 0:43:19You'd give Lucy up if it came to a question of Isabel's reputation.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23Look here. Just what do you mean?
0:43:21 > 0:43:23I'm sorry for you, George.
0:43:23 > 0:43:28But it's only old Fanny, so whatever she says, pick on her for it!
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Hammer her! Hammer her! It's only poor, old, lonely Fanny.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Jack said any gossip was about you.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38People laughing at how you ran after Morgan.
0:43:38 > 0:43:42Oh, yes, it's always Fanny, ridiculous old Fanny, always!
0:43:42 > 0:43:46You said Mother let him come here on your account...
0:43:46 > 0:43:50She did. He liked to dance with me. He danced with me as much as her.
0:43:50 > 0:43:57You said she only saw him when she was chaperoning you.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57You don't suppose that stops talk?!
0:43:57 > 0:44:01They just thought I didn't count. "It's only Fanny," they'd say.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Everybody knew they'd been engaged.
0:44:04 > 0:44:10What's that?
0:44:05 > 0:44:10Everybody knows Isabel never cared for any other man.
0:44:10 > 0:44:16I'm going crazy! You lied when you said there was no talk?
0:44:13 > 0:44:16It'd be nothing if Wilbur had lived.
0:44:16 > 0:44:21You mean Morgan might have married you?!
0:44:18 > 0:44:21No. I might not have accepted him.
0:44:21 > 0:44:26Are you saying that because he comes here and they see them out driving,
0:44:26 > 0:44:31they think they were right in saying that she loved him before?
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Before my father died?
0:44:33 > 0:44:37Why, George... Don't you know that's what they say?
0:44:37 > 0:44:40You must know that everybody...
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Who told you?
0:44:40 > 0:44:44What?
0:44:41 > 0:44:44Who said there was talk? Who?!
0:44:44 > 0:44:46I suppose pretty much everybody.
0:44:46 > 0:44:51Who?! How did you hear it? Answer!
0:44:48 > 0:44:51It wouldn't be fair to give names.
0:44:51 > 0:44:55Your friend across the way - has she ever mentioned this?
0:44:55 > 0:44:58- She may... - You've been talking? Do you deny it?
0:44:58 > 0:45:00- Why... - DO YOU DENY IT?!
0:45:00 > 0:45:02She may have intimated...
0:45:02 > 0:45:04George!
0:45:04 > 0:45:07What are you going to do?!
0:45:05 > 0:45:07DOOR SLAMS
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Mr Amberson!
0:45:09 > 0:45:13I mean, Mr Minafer. Won't you come in, please?
0:45:13 > 0:45:14Thank you.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Well, how nice to see you.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18Mrs Johnson.
0:45:21 > 0:45:25Mrs Johnson, I've come to ask you a few questions.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Certainly. Anything I can do.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30I don't mean to waste any time, Mrs Johnson.
0:45:30 > 0:45:35You...were talking about a scandal that involved my mother's name.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Mr Minafer!
0:45:37 > 0:45:42My aunt said you told her the scandal.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42I don't think she'd have said that.
0:45:42 > 0:45:48We may have discussed matters that have been a topic in town.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Yes, I think you may have.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51Other people may be less considerate.
0:45:51 > 0:45:55Other people? That's what I want to know. How many?
0:45:55 > 0:45:58What?
0:45:56 > 0:45:58How many people talk about it?
0:45:58 > 0:46:02This isn't a court. I'm not a defendant in a libel suit.
0:46:02 > 0:46:07You may be. I want to know who said these things! I mean to know -
0:46:07 > 0:46:12You mean to know?! Well, you'll know something pretty quick.
0:46:12 > 0:46:17You'll know that you're out on the street. Please to leave my house!
0:46:20 > 0:46:22TAPS SQUEAK
0:46:22 > 0:46:24Oh!
0:46:24 > 0:46:26Now you have done it!
0:46:26 > 0:46:30What? You think riffraff can go bandying my mother's good name?
0:46:30 > 0:46:34They can now! Georgie, gossips never fail...
0:46:34 > 0:46:37If you think I'm gonna let my mother's good name...
0:46:37 > 0:46:41Good name(!) Nobody has a good name in a bad or silly mouth.
0:46:41 > 0:46:45Don't you understand me? People say Mother means to marry...
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Yes, I understood you!
0:46:47 > 0:46:52Gosh, you speak of it so calmly.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52Why shouldn't they marry?
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Why shouldn't they?!
0:46:52 > 0:46:58Yes, why shouldn't they?!
0:46:54 > 0:46:58That you can sit there and speak of it! Your sister!
0:46:58 > 0:47:03Oh, for heaven's sake! Don't be so theatrical. Come back!
0:47:23 > 0:47:25BELL
0:47:27 > 0:47:30Leave it, Mary. I'll see who it is and what they want.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33Probably it's only a peddlar.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35Thank you, Mr George.
0:47:43 > 0:47:48Good afternoon, George. Your mother expects to go driving with me.
0:47:48 > 0:47:52If you'll send her word I'm here.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52No.
0:47:52 > 0:47:58I beg your pardon? I said...
0:47:54 > 0:47:58You said you had an engagement with my mother and I said no.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00What's the matter?
0:48:00 > 0:48:05My mother will not care that you came today. Or any other day.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08I don't understand.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08I doubt I can make it much plainer.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11But I'll try. You're not wanted here, Mr Morgan.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14Now or at any other time.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17Perhaps you'll understand this!
0:48:46 > 0:48:48DOOR CLOSES BELOW
0:48:55 > 0:48:56Isabel.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58Yes?
0:48:58 > 0:49:01I've just come from Eugene.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Yes?
0:49:03 > 0:49:05I want to talk to you.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17Well!
0:49:19 > 0:49:22I can just guess what that was about!
0:49:33 > 0:49:36He's telling her what you did to Eugene.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39- Go to your room. - You're not going in?!
0:49:39 > 0:49:41- Go to your room. - George!
0:49:41 > 0:49:44George! No, you don't! Keep away from there!
0:49:44 > 0:49:46- Let go! - I won't!
0:49:46 > 0:49:48Hush up!
0:49:48 > 0:49:51Go on to the top of the stairs! Go on!
0:50:00 > 0:50:02It's indecent.
0:50:02 > 0:50:06Like squabbling outside the door of an operating room.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09The idea of you going in there!
0:50:09 > 0:50:14Jack's telling Isabel and you let him. He's got consideration for her!
0:50:14 > 0:50:19And I haven't?
0:50:15 > 0:50:19You considerate of anybody?!
0:50:17 > 0:50:19I'm considerate of her good name.
0:50:19 > 0:50:24You're taking a different tack.
0:50:21 > 0:50:24I thought you knew everything I did!
0:50:24 > 0:50:28I was suffering, so I wanted to let out a little.
0:50:28 > 0:50:33I was a fool! He wouldn't have had me even if he'd never seen Isabel!
0:50:33 > 0:50:35And they haven't done any harm!
0:50:35 > 0:50:38She made... Wilbur happy.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42She was a true wife to him as long as he lived.
0:50:42 > 0:50:47Here I go, not doing myself a bit of good by it. I'm just ruining him.
0:50:47 > 0:50:51You said all the riffraff were busy with her name.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54I protect her and you attack...
0:50:52 > 0:50:54Shh!
0:50:54 > 0:50:57Look. He's leaving.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57< I'll be back, Isabel.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59George! Let her alone.
0:50:59 > 0:51:03She's down there by herself. Don't go down.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Let her alone.
0:51:38 > 0:51:42'Dearest one, yesterday I thought the time had come
0:51:42 > 0:51:44'when I could ask you to marry me
0:51:44 > 0:51:49'and you were dear enough to tell me, "Sometime it might come to that."
0:51:49 > 0:51:54'Now we are faced not with slander and not with our own fear of it,
0:51:54 > 0:51:56'because we haven't any,
0:51:56 > 0:52:00'but someone else's fear of it - your son's.
0:52:00 > 0:52:05'Oh, dearest woman in the world, I know what your son is to you
0:52:05 > 0:52:07'and it frightens me.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09'Let me explain a little.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11'I don't think he'll change.
0:52:11 > 0:52:17'At 21 or 22, so many things appear solid, permanent and terrible,
0:52:17 > 0:52:21'which 40 sees are nothing but disappearing miasma.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24'40 can't tell 20 about this.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28'20 can find out only by getting to be 40.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32'And so we come to this, dear.
0:52:32 > 0:52:36'Will you live your life your way or George's way?
0:52:37 > 0:52:42'Dear, it breaks my heart for you but what you have to oppose now
0:52:42 > 0:52:47'is the history of your own selfless and perfect motherhood.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50'Are you strong enough, Isabel?
0:52:50 > 0:52:52'Can you make the fight?
0:53:03 > 0:53:06'I promise you that if you will take heart for it,
0:53:06 > 0:53:11'you will find so quickly that it's all amounted to nothing.
0:53:11 > 0:53:15'You shall have happiness and only happiness.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18'I'm saying too much for wisdom, I fear,
0:53:18 > 0:53:21'but, oh, my dear, won't you be strong?
0:53:21 > 0:53:25'Such a little, short strength it would need.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35'Don't strike my life down twice, dear.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38'This time I've not deserved it.'
0:53:56 > 0:53:58KNOCK AT DOOR
0:53:57 > 0:53:58Come in. >
0:54:09 > 0:54:11Did you read it, dear?
0:54:12 > 0:54:14Yes, I did.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18All of it?
0:54:21 > 0:54:23Yes.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30Well, what do you think, Georgie?
0:54:30 > 0:54:32What do you mean?
0:54:32 > 0:54:35You can see how fair he means to be.
0:54:35 > 0:54:41Fair?! Fair? When he says that he and you don't care what people say?
0:54:41 > 0:54:43What people say?
0:54:43 > 0:54:46That Eugene loves me?
0:54:46 > 0:54:48He's always loved you.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56That's true, Georgie.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58But you're my mother.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03You're an Amberson. You just...
0:55:03 > 0:55:06Yes, dear?
0:55:18 > 0:55:20I don't know, Mother.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41I'll write Eugene.
0:55:44 > 0:55:46He'll understand.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48He'll wait.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52It'll be better this way.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59We'll go away for a while, you and I.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06Hello.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13Lucy, you... Haven't you...
0:56:13 > 0:56:16Haven't I what?
0:56:14 > 0:56:16Nothing.
0:56:16 > 0:56:20May I walk with you a little way?
0:56:18 > 0:56:20Yes, indeed.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31I want to talk to you, Lucy.
0:56:31 > 0:56:36Hope it's something nice. Papa's so glum, he's scarcely spoken.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38- Well.. - Is it a funny story?
0:56:38 > 0:56:40It may seem like one to you.
0:56:40 > 0:56:45To begin with, when you went away, you didn't let me know. Not a word.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49Why, no. I just trotted off for some visits.
0:56:49 > 0:56:56Least you might have...
0:56:50 > 0:56:56No. We'd had a quarrel and we didn't speak all the way home on the drive.
0:56:56 > 0:57:02Since we couldn't play like good children, we oughtn't to play at all
0:57:02 > 0:57:04Play?
0:57:04 > 0:57:06What I mean is, we'd come to the point
0:57:06 > 0:57:11where it was time to quit playing.... what we were playing.
0:57:11 > 0:57:15At being lovers, you mean?
0:57:12 > 0:57:15Something like that. It was absurd.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Didn't have to be absurd.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18It couldn't help but be.
0:57:18 > 0:57:22The way I am and you are, it would never be anything else.
0:57:22 > 0:57:27This time I'm going away. That's what I want to tell you, Lucy.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30I'm going away tomorrow night. Indefinitely.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33I hope you have ever so nice a time.
0:57:33 > 0:57:36I don't expect to have a very nice time.
0:57:36 > 0:57:40Well, then, if I were you, I don't think I'd go.
0:57:40 > 0:57:43This is our last walk together.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46Evidently, if you're going away tomorrow.
0:57:46 > 0:57:51This is the last time I'll see you. Ever. Ever in my life.
0:57:51 > 0:57:55Mother and I are starting on a trip round the world and...
0:57:55 > 0:57:58we've made no plans for coming back.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00My, that is a long trip.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04Will you travel all the time or stay in one place for part of it? I...
0:58:04 > 0:58:09Lucy! I can't stand this. I'm just about ready to go in that drugstore
0:58:09 > 0:58:14for something to keep me from dying in my tracks. It's quite a shock.
0:58:14 > 0:58:21What is?
0:58:15 > 0:58:21To find out how deeply you care, to see what difference it makes to you.
0:58:21 > 0:58:22George...
0:58:22 > 0:58:25I can't stand this any longer. I can't, Lucy.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Goodbye, Lucy.
0:58:34 > 0:58:36It's goodbye.
0:58:44 > 0:58:49I think it's goodbye for good, Lucy.
0:58:47 > 0:58:49Goodbye, George.
0:58:49 > 0:58:52I do hope you have the most splendid trip.
0:58:52 > 0:58:54Give my love to your mother.
0:59:10 > 0:59:14May I please have a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia
0:59:14 > 0:59:16and a glass of water?
0:59:21 > 0:59:23For gosh sake, Miss!
0:59:29 > 0:59:32Mighty nice of you, Lucy, you and Eugene
0:59:32 > 0:59:36to have me over to your new house my first day back.
0:59:36 > 0:59:40You'll probably find the old town dull after Paris.
0:59:43 > 0:59:46I...found Isabel as well as usual.
0:59:49 > 0:59:54Only, I'm afraid "as usual" isn't...particularly well.
0:59:57 > 1:00:00Struck me Isabel ought to be in a wheelchair.
1:00:00 > 1:00:02What do you mean by that?
1:00:02 > 1:00:06Oh, she's cheerful enough. Least...
1:00:07 > 1:00:09..she manages to seem so.
1:00:10 > 1:00:12Pretty short of breath.
1:00:14 > 1:00:18Father's been that way for years, of course, but...
1:00:18 > 1:00:21never nearly so much as Isabel is now.
1:00:21 > 1:00:25I told her she ought to make Georgie let her come home.
1:00:25 > 1:00:27Let her?
1:00:27 > 1:00:29Does she want to?
1:00:29 > 1:00:31She doesn't urge it.
1:00:33 > 1:00:39George likes the life there in his grand, gloomy and peculiar way.
1:00:39 > 1:00:43She'll never change about being proud of him and all that.
1:00:43 > 1:00:45He's quite a swell.
1:00:46 > 1:00:48She does want to come.
1:00:50 > 1:00:55She'd like to be with Father, of course, and I think she's...
1:00:55 > 1:01:01Well, she intimated one day that she was afraid it might even happen
1:01:01 > 1:01:04that she wouldn't get to see him again.
1:01:05 > 1:01:10I think she was really thinking of her own state of health.
1:01:10 > 1:01:12I see.
1:01:13 > 1:01:16And you say he won't let her come home?
1:01:18 > 1:01:20I don't think he uses force.
1:01:22 > 1:01:24He's very gentle with her.
1:01:24 > 1:01:29I doubt if the subject is mentioned between them, and yet...
1:01:29 > 1:01:33Yet knowing my interesting nephew as you do,
1:01:33 > 1:01:37wouldn't you think that was not the way to put it?
1:01:39 > 1:01:41Knowing him as I do...yes.
1:01:46 > 1:01:48HOOTER
1:02:00 > 1:02:02Changed.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04So changed.
1:02:04 > 1:02:07You mean... You mean the town?
1:02:07 > 1:02:10You mean, the old place has changed, don't you, dear?
1:02:10 > 1:02:12Yes.
1:02:12 > 1:02:16It'll change to a happier place, now that you're here.
1:02:16 > 1:02:18You're going to get well again.
1:02:21 > 1:02:25Mr George will be right down.
1:02:23 > 1:02:25Thank you.
1:02:47 > 1:02:50I've come to see your mother, George.
1:02:50 > 1:02:52I'm sorry, Mr Morgan.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58Not this time, George.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00I'm going up to see her.
1:03:00 > 1:03:02The doctor said that...
1:03:02 > 1:03:04she had to be kept quiet.
1:03:06 > 1:03:08I'll be quiet.
1:03:08 > 1:03:10FANNY SOBS
1:03:12 > 1:03:15I don't think you should right now.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18- The doctor said... - SHE SOBS
1:03:20 > 1:03:22Fanny is right, Gene.
1:03:26 > 1:03:28Why don't you come back later?
1:03:52 > 1:03:54All right.
1:04:04 > 1:04:06< She wants to see you.
1:04:37 > 1:04:41Darling... did you get something to eat?
1:04:41 > 1:04:43Yes, Mother.
1:04:43 > 1:04:46All you needed?
1:04:44 > 1:04:46Yes, Mother.
1:04:48 > 1:04:52Are you sure you didn't catch cold coming home?
1:04:52 > 1:04:54I'm all right, Mother.
1:04:57 > 1:04:59That's sweet.
1:05:00 > 1:05:01Sweet.
1:05:01 > 1:05:03What is, Mother, darling?
1:05:03 > 1:05:06My hand against your cheek.
1:05:06 > 1:05:08I can feel it.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16I wonder...
1:05:16 > 1:05:20if Eugene and Lucy know that we've come home.
1:05:20 > 1:05:22I'm sure they do.
1:05:25 > 1:05:27Has he asked about me?
1:05:31 > 1:05:33Yes.
1:05:33 > 1:05:35He was here.
1:05:37 > 1:05:39Has he gone?
1:05:40 > 1:05:42Yes, Mother.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45Oh...
1:05:46 > 1:05:49I'd liked to have seen him.
1:05:52 > 1:05:54Just once.
1:05:58 > 1:06:00< She must rest now.
1:06:31 > 1:06:33George...
1:06:33 > 1:06:35She loved you.
1:06:35 > 1:06:37She loved you!
1:06:38 > 1:06:42NARRATOR: 'And now, Major Amberson was engaged
1:06:42 > 1:06:45'in the profoundest thinking of his life.
1:06:45 > 1:06:50'He realised that everything which had worried him or delighted him -
1:06:50 > 1:06:54'all his buying and building and trading and banking -
1:06:54 > 1:06:57'that it was all trifling and waste
1:06:57 > 1:07:00'beside what concerned him now.
1:07:00 > 1:07:05'For the Major knew he had to plan how to enter an unknown country,
1:07:05 > 1:07:10'where he was not even sure of being recognised as an Amberson.'
1:07:10 > 1:07:12- JACK: - Father. >
1:07:12 > 1:07:14Father!
1:07:14 > 1:07:15Huh?
1:07:15 > 1:07:20The house was in Isabel's name, wasn't it?
1:07:20 > 1:07:21Yes.
1:07:21 > 1:07:25Can you remember when you gave her the deed, Father?
1:07:26 > 1:07:28No.
1:07:28 > 1:07:30No, I can't just remember.
1:07:30 > 1:07:32- GEORGE: - It doesn't matter.
1:07:32 > 1:07:36The whole estate has got as mixed up as an estate can get.
1:07:36 > 1:07:40You want to have that deed, George?
1:07:38 > 1:07:40No, don't bother. >
1:07:47 > 1:07:50It must be in the sun.
1:07:52 > 1:07:55There wasn't anything here...
1:07:55 > 1:07:57but the sun in the first place.
1:08:00 > 1:08:02The sun...
1:08:02 > 1:08:04The earth came out of the sun.
1:08:05 > 1:08:07We came out of the earth.
1:08:08 > 1:08:13So, for whatever we are, we must have been the earth...
1:08:19 > 1:08:21TRAIN WHISTLE
1:08:22 > 1:08:25Odd way for us to be saying goodbye.
1:08:25 > 1:08:29One wouldn't have thought it even a few years ago.
1:08:29 > 1:08:34But here we are, two gentlemen of elegant appearance,
1:08:34 > 1:08:36in a state of bustitude.
1:08:36 > 1:08:40You can't ever tell what will happen at all, can you?
1:08:40 > 1:08:45Once I stood where we're standing to say goodbye to a pretty girl.
1:08:45 > 1:08:49Only it was in the old station before this was built.
1:08:49 > 1:08:52We knew we wouldn't see each other for almost a year.
1:08:52 > 1:08:55I thought I couldn't live through it.
1:08:55 > 1:08:57She stood there crying.
1:08:58 > 1:09:02Don't even know where she lives now. Or if she is living.
1:09:02 > 1:09:05If she thinks of me, she probably imagines
1:09:05 > 1:09:09I'm still dancing in the ballroom at the Amberson mansion.
1:09:09 > 1:09:13She probably thinks of the mansion as still beautiful,
1:09:13 > 1:09:16still the finest house in town.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20Ah, life and money both behave like
1:09:20 > 1:09:23loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26When they're gone you can't tell where,
1:09:26 > 1:09:28or what the devil you did with them.
1:09:28 > 1:09:30But I believe I'll say now
1:09:30 > 1:09:34while there isn't much time for us to get more embarrassed...
1:09:34 > 1:09:36I've always been fond of you.
1:09:36 > 1:09:40I can't say I've always liked you. We spoiled you terribly.
1:09:40 > 1:09:44But this is a heavy chill. You've taken it quietly.
1:09:44 > 1:09:48The train's coming. At times I felt you ought to be hanged.
1:09:48 > 1:09:52There may be somebody else who's felt like that -
1:09:52 > 1:09:57fond of you, I mean, no matter how much it seems you ought to hang.
1:09:57 > 1:10:02I must run. I'll send back the money as fast as they pay me.
1:10:02 > 1:10:04Goodbye. God bless you, Georgie.
1:10:08 > 1:10:13Did you ever hear the Indian name for that grove of beech trees?
1:10:13 > 1:10:15No.
1:10:15 > 1:10:17And you never did either.
1:10:18 > 1:10:20Well?
1:10:20 > 1:10:22The name was Lo-man-na-sha.
1:10:22 > 1:10:25It means, They Couldn't Help It.
1:10:25 > 1:10:29Doesn't sound like it.
1:10:27 > 1:10:29Indian names don't.
1:10:29 > 1:10:34A bad Indian chief lived there. The worst Indian that ever lived.
1:10:34 > 1:10:36His name was... It was...
1:10:38 > 1:10:41..Ven-dona. It means, Rides Down Everything.
1:10:41 > 1:10:42What?
1:10:42 > 1:10:45Ven-dona - Rides Down Everything.
1:10:45 > 1:10:47I see.
1:10:49 > 1:10:51Go on.
1:10:51 > 1:10:54Ven-dona was unspeakable.
1:10:54 > 1:10:59He was so proud he wore iron shoes and walked over people's faces.
1:10:59 > 1:11:01At last the tribe decided
1:11:01 > 1:11:06it wasn't a good enough excuse that he was young and inexperienced,
1:11:06 > 1:11:08he'd have to go.
1:11:08 > 1:11:11They took him to the river, put him in a canoe,
1:11:11 > 1:11:13pushed him out from the shore
1:11:13 > 1:11:19and the current carried him on down to the ocean and he never got back.
1:11:19 > 1:11:23They didn't want him back, of course. They hated Ven-dona.
1:11:23 > 1:11:26But they weren't able to discover
1:11:26 > 1:11:30any other warrior they wanted to make chief in his place.
1:11:30 > 1:11:33They couldn't help feeling that way.
1:11:33 > 1:11:38I see. So that's why they named the place They Couldn't Help It.
1:11:38 > 1:11:40It must have been.
1:11:49 > 1:11:52So, you're going to stay in your garden?
1:11:53 > 1:11:59You think it's better to keep walking about among your flower beds
1:11:59 > 1:12:01till you get old?
1:12:01 > 1:12:05Like a pensive garden lady in a Victorian engraving. Hm?
1:12:06 > 1:12:10I suppose I'm like that tribe that lived here, Papa.
1:12:10 > 1:12:15I had too much unpleasant excitement. I don't want any more.
1:12:15 > 1:12:18In fact, I don't want anything but you.
1:12:18 > 1:12:21You don't? What was the name of that grove?
1:12:21 > 1:12:24They Couldn't...
1:12:22 > 1:12:24The Indian name, I mean.
1:12:24 > 1:12:27Oh. Mo-la-ha-ha.
1:12:27 > 1:12:29Ha ha!
1:12:29 > 1:12:31Mo-la-ha-ha!
1:12:31 > 1:12:33That wasn't the name you said.
1:12:33 > 1:12:35I've forgotten.
1:12:35 > 1:12:37I'd say you have.
1:12:37 > 1:12:41Perhaps you remember the chief's name better.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44I don't.
1:12:48 > 1:12:51I hope some day you can forget it.
1:12:53 > 1:12:57Try and understand. It's not doing us any good to argue! That place...
1:12:57 > 1:13:02This boarding house is practical and we could be together.
1:13:02 > 1:13:05How? On eight dollars a week?
1:13:05 > 1:13:09I'm only going to be getting eight dollars a week at the law office.
1:13:09 > 1:13:13You'd be paying more of the expenses than I would.
1:13:13 > 1:13:16I'd be paying? I'd be paying?
1:13:16 > 1:13:20Certainly. We'd be using more of your money than mine.
1:13:20 > 1:13:22My money? My...
1:13:22 > 1:13:24SHE LAUGHS
1:13:25 > 1:13:29I've got 28! That's all!
1:13:30 > 1:13:3328?
1:13:31 > 1:13:33That's all.
1:13:33 > 1:13:38I know I told Jack I didn't put everything in the headlight company
1:13:38 > 1:13:40but... I did.
1:13:40 > 1:13:42Every cent.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45And it's gone.
1:13:45 > 1:13:50Why wait till now to tell me?
1:13:47 > 1:13:50I couldn't tell till I had to!
1:13:50 > 1:13:52It wouldn't do any good.
1:13:52 > 1:13:53Oh, my gosh...
1:13:53 > 1:13:55Oh, I know what you're gonna do.
1:13:57 > 1:14:01You're... You're gonna leave me in the lurch!
1:14:01 > 1:14:04I'm only asking you to be reasonable.
1:14:04 > 1:14:08It's impossible for either of us to go on this way.
1:14:08 > 1:14:11Will you get up?!
1:14:09 > 1:14:11I can't...
1:14:11 > 1:14:14I'm too weak.
1:14:14 > 1:14:18Oh... None of this makes any sense. Will you get up?!
1:14:18 > 1:14:22I...know your mother would want me to watch over you
1:14:22 > 1:14:26and try and make something like a home for you.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29And I've tried.
1:14:29 > 1:14:33I tried to make things as nice for you as I could.
1:14:33 > 1:14:35I know that.
1:14:35 > 1:14:40I walked my heels down looking for a place for us to live.
1:14:41 > 1:14:44I... I walked and walked over this town.
1:14:46 > 1:14:48I...
1:14:48 > 1:14:51I didn't ride one block on a streetcar.
1:14:54 > 1:14:59I wouldn't use five cents no matter how tired I was!
1:14:59 > 1:15:03For gosh sakes, get up! Don't sit against the boiler!
1:15:03 > 1:15:05Get up, Aunt Fanny!
1:15:05 > 1:15:07It's not hot! It's cold!
1:15:08 > 1:15:11The plumber's disconnected it!
1:15:11 > 1:15:12I...
1:15:12 > 1:15:15I wouldn't mind if they hadn't.
1:15:16 > 1:15:18I wouldn't mind if it...
1:15:18 > 1:15:21I wouldn't mind if it burned me, George!!
1:15:21 > 1:15:23For gosh sakes, get up!
1:15:23 > 1:15:26SHE SCREAMS HYSTERICALLY
1:15:24 > 1:15:26Stop it! Stop it!
1:15:26 > 1:15:29Stop it! Stop it!
1:15:29 > 1:15:31Listen to me now!
1:15:31 > 1:15:33There. That's better.
1:15:33 > 1:15:35Now let's see where we stand.
1:15:35 > 1:15:39Let's see if we can afford this place you picked out.
1:15:39 > 1:15:43I'm sure the boarding house is practical. I'm sure it is.
1:15:43 > 1:15:45I know it must be practical.
1:15:45 > 1:15:49And it is a comfort to be among nice people.
1:15:49 > 1:15:51I was thinking of the money, Aunt.
1:15:51 > 1:15:56There's one great economy. They... They don't allow tipping.
1:15:56 > 1:15:59They have signs that prohibit it.
1:15:59 > 1:16:02That's good. But the rent is 36 a month.
1:16:02 > 1:16:05And dinner is 22.50 for each of us.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07I've got about 100 left.
1:16:07 > 1:16:09100. That's all.
1:16:09 > 1:16:13I won't need any new clothes for a year. Perhaps if...
1:16:13 > 1:16:15Oh, so you see...
1:16:15 > 1:16:17Yes, I see.
1:16:17 > 1:16:19I see that 36 and 45 make 81.
1:16:19 > 1:16:23At the lowest we'll need 100 a month.
1:16:24 > 1:16:27And I'm going to be making 32.
1:16:29 > 1:16:32A real flair. Real flair for the law.
1:16:32 > 1:16:36That's right. Couldn't wait till tomorrow to begin.
1:16:36 > 1:16:39The law's a jealous mistress and a stern one.
1:16:39 > 1:16:41I can't. I can't take up the law.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43What?
1:16:43 > 1:16:48I must find something quicker, something that pays from the start.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50I can't think of anything like that.
1:16:50 > 1:16:55I've heard they pay high wages to people in dangerous trades
1:16:55 > 1:17:00who handle chemicals, explosives, in the dynamite factories.
1:17:00 > 1:17:04I thought I'd try for a job like that. I want to start tomorrow.
1:17:04 > 1:17:08Georgie, your grandfather and I were friends.
1:17:08 > 1:17:10You think I don't know what's wrong?
1:17:10 > 1:17:15Well, it's Aunt Fanny. She's set her mind on this boarding house.
1:17:15 > 1:17:19She put everything in the headlight company.
1:17:19 > 1:17:21She's got some old cronies
1:17:21 > 1:17:26and I guess she's looking forward to games of bridge and gossip.
1:17:26 > 1:17:29It's a life she'd like better than anything else.
1:17:29 > 1:17:32Struck me as she's got to have it.
1:17:32 > 1:17:36I got her into the headlight firm. I feel a responsibility.
1:17:36 > 1:17:39It's my responsibility. She's not your aunt.
1:17:39 > 1:17:44I can't see that a man is morally obliged to give up a career in law
1:17:44 > 1:17:48to give his aunt a favourable opportunity to play bridge!
1:17:48 > 1:17:52All right! If you promise not to get blown up,
1:17:52 > 1:17:54I'll see if we can find you the job.
1:17:54 > 1:17:59You certainly are the most practical young man I ever met.
1:18:00 > 1:18:03NARRATOR: 'George Amberson Minafer walked home
1:18:03 > 1:18:08'through what seemed to be the strange streets of a strange city.
1:18:08 > 1:18:11'For the town was growing, changing.
1:18:11 > 1:18:15'It was heaving up in the middle incredibly.
1:18:15 > 1:18:18'It was spreading incredibly.
1:18:18 > 1:18:20'And as it heaved and spread,
1:18:20 > 1:18:24'it befouled itself and darkened its sky.
1:18:25 > 1:18:27'This was the last walk home
1:18:27 > 1:18:32'he was ever to take up National Avenue to Amberson Addition
1:18:32 > 1:18:36'to the big, old house at the foot of Amberson Boulevard.'
1:18:36 > 1:18:39'Tomorrow they were to move out.
1:18:39 > 1:18:42'Tomorrow everything would be gone.
1:18:49 > 1:18:51Mother, forgive me.
1:18:54 > 1:18:56God, forgive me.
1:19:01 > 1:19:04NARRATOR: 'Something had happened.
1:19:04 > 1:19:06'The thing which, years ago,
1:19:06 > 1:19:11'had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town.
1:19:14 > 1:19:16'And now it came at last.
1:19:18 > 1:19:22'George Amberson Minafer had got his comeuppance.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26'He got it three times filled...
1:19:27 > 1:19:29'..and running over.
1:19:31 > 1:19:35'But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it
1:19:35 > 1:19:37'and they never knew it.'
1:19:37 > 1:19:42'Those who were still living had forgotten all about it...
1:19:42 > 1:19:44'and all about him.'
1:19:46 > 1:19:48Stay back there now!
1:19:48 > 1:19:51He run into me as much as I run into him.
1:19:51 > 1:19:54If he gets well, he won't get a cent out of me!
1:19:54 > 1:19:56I'll only say I'm sorry for him.
1:19:56 > 1:20:02Wonderful the damage these machines can do. All right, back in your car.
1:20:21 > 1:20:23What are you going to do, Papa?
1:20:34 > 1:20:36I'm going to him.
1:20:41 > 1:20:43You coming, Papa?
1:21:07 > 1:21:09DOOR CLOSES
1:21:27 > 1:21:29How is he?
1:21:29 > 1:21:31How is Georgie?
1:21:31 > 1:21:33He's going to be all right.
1:21:33 > 1:21:38Fanny, I wish you could've seen Georgie's face when he saw Lucy.
1:21:40 > 1:21:43You know what he said to me when we went into that room?
1:21:43 > 1:21:45He said...
1:21:47 > 1:21:52.."You must have known my mother wanted you to come here today,
1:21:52 > 1:21:56"so that I could ask you to forgive me."
1:21:56 > 1:21:58We shook hands.
1:22:03 > 1:22:07I never noticed before how much like Isabel Georgie looks.
1:22:09 > 1:22:11You know something, Fanny?
1:22:13 > 1:22:17I wouldn't tell this to anybody but you.
1:22:22 > 1:22:26But it seemed to me as if someone else was in that room.
1:22:28 > 1:22:33And that through me she brought her boy under shelter again.
1:22:35 > 1:22:38And that I'd been true at last...
1:22:39 > 1:22:41..to my true love.
1:22:52 > 1:22:55NARRATOR: 'Ladies and gentlemen,
1:22:55 > 1:22:59'The Magnificent Ambersons was based on Booth Tarkington's novel.
1:22:59 > 1:23:02'Stanley Cortez was the photographer.
1:23:02 > 1:23:04'Mark-Lee Kirk designed the sets.
1:23:04 > 1:23:06'Al Fields dressed them.
1:23:06 > 1:23:08'Robert Wise was the film editor.
1:23:08 > 1:23:11'Fred E Fleck was the assistant director.
1:23:11 > 1:23:13'Edward Stevenson designed the ladies' wardrobe.
1:23:13 > 1:23:16'The special effects were by Vernon L Walker.
1:23:16 > 1:23:20'The sound recording was by Bailey Flessner and James G Stewart.
1:23:20 > 1:23:24'Here's the cast: Eugene - Joseph Cotten.
1:23:25 > 1:23:28'Isabel - Dolores Costello.
1:23:30 > 1:23:32'Lucy - Anne Baxter.
1:23:33 > 1:23:35'George - Tim Holt.
1:23:37 > 1:23:39'Fanny - Agnes Moorehead.
1:23:41 > 1:23:43'Jack - Ray Collins.
1:23:45 > 1:23:48'Roger Bronson - Erskine Sandford.
1:23:50 > 1:23:53'Major Amberson - Richard Bennett.
1:23:54 > 1:23:56'I wrote the script and directed it.
1:23:56 > 1:23:59'My name is Orson Welles.
1:24:00 > 1:24:02'This is a Mercury Production.'
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