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The Magnificent Ambersons

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The Magnificent Ambersons
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NR,1hr 28min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
July 10, 1942
Director:
Orson Welles
Distributor:
RKO Radio Pictures
Starring:
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter  ...more
Synopsis: Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in its own way. Writer/director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn-of-century Indianapolis. Its mistress is the haughtily beautiful Isabel Amberson (Dolores Costello). When Isabel's beau, erstwhile inventor ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Some consider Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons one of the finest films ever made, even in the form in which it has been handed down to us. At the time of its production, Orson Welles was the big noise among new young filmmakers, but not a very profitable one. His first movie, Citizen Kane, had generated press and praise, but not profits. RKO, never a profitable studio and in danger of receivership ... Full Review
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Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt
George Amberson Minafer
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