
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 |
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Dolores Costello | Isabel Amberson Minafer |
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Anne Baxter | Lucy Morgan |
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Tim Holt | George Minafer |
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Agnes Moorehead | Fanny Minafer |
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Ray Collins | Jack Amberson |
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Erskine Sanford | Roger Bronson |
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Richard Bennett | Major Amberson |
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Orson Welles | Narrator |
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Edwin August | Citizen |
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Georgia Backus | Matron |
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Harry A. Bailey | Citizen |
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Olive Ball | Mary - Maid |
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Jack Baxley | Reverend Smith |
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William Blees | Young Man at Accident |
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Lyle Clement | Citizen |
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Bobby Cooper | George Minafer as a Boy |
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Don Dillaway | Wilbur Minafer |
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Heenan Elliott | Workman |
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John Elliott | Guest |
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William Elmer | Servant |
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James Fawcett | Citizen |
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Mel Ford | Fred Kinney |
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Nancy Gates | Girl |
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Nina Guilbert | Guest |
Director | Orson Welles |
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Freddie Fleck |
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Robert Wise |
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Writer | Booth Tarkington, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Jack Moss | |
Producer | Jack Moss, George Schaefer, Orson Welles | |
Musician | Bernard Herrmann | |
Photography | Stanley Cortez, Jack MacKenzie, Orson Welles |
Packaging | Digipak |
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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 |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 2139 |
Added Date | Dec 25, 2018 19:35:40 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:47 |
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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