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BLU-RAY EDITION 1942 88 MINUTES BLACK AND WHITE MONAURAL 1.37:1 ASPECT RATIO
SPECIAL FEATURES 2 Audio essay by Robert Carringer 2 Video clips of Orson Wells on the Magnificent Ambersons 2 Wells complete shooting script 2 Excerpts from Pampered Youth, 1925 version 2 1939 Mercury Theatre radio drama 2 Booklet describing captions for the complete storyboards Audio: English LPCM 1.0 / Audio Commentary Mono 1.0 Subtitles: English Main title: 1080p Supplementary material: 480p Laserdisc source
1942
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 of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan—at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is under exclusive license from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment TM 2021 by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. © 2021 The Criterion Collection. All Rights Reserved. Cat. no. CC1109L. ISBN - 0-9313-9330-2. Warning: unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the USA. First printing 2021.
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