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The Magnificent Ambersons (Criterion Collection)

The Magnificent Ambersons (Criterion Collection)

RKO Radio Pictures (1942)
Blu-ray
UR (Unrated)
715515223515
Drama | Romance
USA | English | Black & White | 01:28

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.


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Joseph Cotten Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins Jack Amberson
Erskine Sanford Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett Major Amberson
Orson Welles Narrator
Edwin August Citizen
Georgia Backus Matron
Harry A. Bailey Citizen
Olive Ball Mary - Maid
Jack Baxley Reverend Smith
William Blees Young Man at Accident
Lyle Clement Citizen
Bobby Cooper George Minafer as a Boy
Don Dillaway Wilbur Minafer
Heenan Elliott Workman
John Elliott Guest
William Elmer Servant
James Fawcett Citizen
Mel Ford Fred Kinney
Nancy Gates Girl
Nina Guilbert Guest

Trailer

Edition details

Packaging Digipak
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks PCM Mono [English]
Subtitles English
Distributor Criterion
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Nov 27, 2018
Regions Region A

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Watched
Quantity 1
Index 2139
Added Date Dec 25, 2018 19:35:40
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:34:47

Notes

Christmas 2018 gift from Beth


SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride
New video essay on the film’s cinematographers by scholar François Thomas
New video essays by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted
Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970
Segment from a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons
Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939)
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell and (Blu-ray only) essays by authors and critics Luc Sante, Geoffrey O’Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles
New cover by Eric Skillman

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