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Title:

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

Edition:

DVD edition

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

DVD videodisc.
Families--Indiana--Drama.
Children of the rich--Drama.
Inheritance and succession--Drama.
Loss (Psychology)--Drama.
Mothers and sons--Drama.
Social change--Drama.

Other Authors:

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, film director.
Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994, actor.
Baxter, Anne, actor.
Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974, actor.
Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975, composer (expression)
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Magnificent Ambersons.
Mercury Productions, Inc., production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture)

Notes:

Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins. Credits, from container; film credits are spoken. From the novel by Booth Tarkington. 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. Program note (1 folded sheet) with essay by critic Molly Haskell inserted in container.

Summary:

A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the 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.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 952

ISBN:

168143525X
9781681435251

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1056157966

UPC:

715515223614

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)