Rent The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
3.8 of 5 from 135 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
Set in Midwestern America, 'The Magnificent Ambersons' tells the tale of Isabel Amberson Minafer (Dolores Costello) and her son George (Tim Holt), an upper middle class family experiencing social decline at the turn of the century. With the industrial and technological age taking full force, the chances within the family are self destructing. After the death of her husband Wilbur (Don Dillaway), Isabel is romantically linked with Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) whom she knew from years previous to her marriage. George, unhappy with this courtship, proceeds to do everything in his power to destroy their relationship despite falling for Eugene's daughter Lucy (Anne Baxter). Disaster strikes for the Amberson family and events do not turn out as George expected... - Actors:
- Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Edwin August, Georgia Backus, Harry A. Bailey, Olive Ball, Jack Baxley, William Blees, Lyle Clement, Bobby Cooper, Don Dillaway, Heenan Elliott, John Elliott, William Elmer
- Directors:
- Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
- Producers:
- Orson Welles
- Voiced By:
- Orson Welles
- Narrated By:
- Orson Welles
- Writers:
- Booth Tarkington, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Jack Moss
- Others:
- Darrell Silvera, Albert S. D'Agostino, Stanley Cortez, Al Fields
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/12/2018
- Run Time:
- 88 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 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 essays by scholars Frangois 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
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Reviews (1) of The Magnificent Ambersons
Brilliant Criterion Blu Ray - The Magnificent Ambersons review by LE
It's a great film - or at least the first half is - and the less said about the ending the better - but this is a phenomenal Bluray because of its extras. Two great commentaries and a load of amazing documentaries and interesting video essays etc. I wish there was some way of finding out which Criterion discs that Cinema Paradiso have because if they are all as good as this one, I'd like to see them.
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