The magnificent Ambersons / an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles.

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"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarking...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture)
Criterion collection ; 952.
Corporate Authors: Mercury Productions, Inc (Production company)
RKO Radio Pictures (Film distributor)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Narrator)
Cortez, Stanley (director of photography.)
Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975 (composer (expression))
Wise, Robert, 1914-2005 (Editor of moving image work)
Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994 (Actor)
Baxter, Anne (Actor)
Moorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974 (Actor)
Costello, Dolores, 1905-1979 (Actor)
Holt, Tim, 1918-1973 (Actor)
Collins, Ray, 1889-1965 (Actor)
Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969 (Actor)
Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944 (Actor)
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Edition:Two-DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 952.
Subjects:
Tarkington, Booth, > 1869-1946 > Film adaptations.
Families > Indiana > Drama.
Children of the rich > Drama.
Inheritance and succession > Drama.
Loss (Psychology) > Drama.
Mothers and sons > Drama.
Social change > Drama.
Tarkington, Booth, > 1869-1946.
Children of the rich.
Families.
Inheritance and succession.
Mothers and sons.
Social change.
Indiana.
Drama.
Feature films.
Domestic drama.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Feature films.
Domestic drama.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert (12 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm).
Variant Title:
Orson Welles' the magnificent Ambersons
Format: Video DVD

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