According to him, yes. Others say differently.
I love how secretive Thatcher’s office is. It’s like going into the “Top Men” location at the end of ‘Raiders’
Mrs. Kane is creepy.
After being told about getting cash, father says, “Let’s hope it’s all for the best.”
So subtle and funny.
Communism and capitalism are, by nature, mutually exclusive (at least in their purest forms). Fascism could be either or both.
This kid really looks like a young Orson.
Thatcher’s sporting a Willy Wonka hat.
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper!”
Love that and breaking the fourth wall…over and over and over again.
Strong, ambitious women back then pretty much had to be, I’d imagine.
OK, I think I missed something. How did Kane become involved with Thatcher in the first place? Why did his mother basically give him up?
I don’t know. Aunt Em from ‘Wizard of Oz’ was strong but in no way creepy.
“At rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in about… 60 years.” 
A guy who handles things. I don’t know if he is a lawyer or banker. He gets custody of Kane.
Privatize profit, socialize loss.
But where did this fortune come from in the first place? I must have missed it. 
I believe that’s the AIG corporate slogan. 
Quoted from elsewhere:
Famed in American legend is the origin of the Kane fortune, how to boarding house keeper Mary Kane by a defaulting boarder in 1868 was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mine shaft - the Colorado Lode. Fifty-seven years later, before a Congressional investigation, Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of Wall Street, for years chief target of Kane papers’ attacks on trusts, recalls a journey he made as a youth.
Also:
(His mother Mary (Agnes Moorehead), proprietress of the lonely, run-down, wooden boarding house, becomes unexpectedly wealthy when seemingly worthless mining stock certificates given her by a poor prospector/boarder in lieu of payment make her the sole owner of one of the world’s great gold mines, the Colorado Lode.)
Here come the dancing girls!!
WooT!!
Thanks 'Talos.
So, um, you’re not going to get in trouble for watching this, are you? :rolleyes:
Love the use of the reflection of the window during the party. While Leland and Bernstein are talking about policies and Kane be seen dancing in the background. Nice effect.