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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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"First printing: 2018."--Container
Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when an aristocratic Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin
"Screenplay, production, and direction by Orson Welles."--Container
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
Special features: two audio commentaries; new interviews; new video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas; new video essay on the films score by scholar Christopher Husted; Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970; segment from Pampered youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939); trailer; essay by critic Molly Haskell and 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
Photography, Stanley Cortez ; editing, Robert Wise
Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead
Orson Welles, narrator
MPAA rating: Not rated
Blu-ray disc; region A; aspect ratio: 1.37:1; monaural; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
National Board of Review, USA, 1942: NBR Award in Best Acting (Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1942: NYFCC Award in Best Actress (Agnes Moorehead)
National Film Preservation Board, USA 1991: National Film Registry