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The Magnificent Ambersons
Directed by
Orson Welles
Not Rated
1942
88m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
89%
84%
7.3
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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Cast of The Magnificent Ambersons
Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt
George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead
Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins
Jack Amberson
Erskine Sanford
Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett
Major Amberson
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice) / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Edwin August
Citizen (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
Matron (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Citizen (uncredited)
Olive Ball
Mary (Maid) (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
Reverend Smith (uncredited)
William Blees
Young Man at Accident (uncredited)
Lyle Clement
Citizen (uncredited)
Bobby Cooper
George Minafer as a Boy (uncredited)
Don Dillaway
Wilbur Minafer (uncredited)
Heenan Elliott
Workman (uncredited)
John Elliott
Guest (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Even in this truncated form it's amazing and memorable.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Visually creative classic.
TIME Magazine
Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Although reams have been written about the mutilation of Orson Welles' second feature, what remains of it is nevertheless a major accomplishment.
The New Republic
Manny Farber
While telling this story, haltingly and clumsily, the movie runs from burdensome through heavy and dull to bad. It stutters and stumbles as Welles submerges Tarkington's story in a mess of radio and stage technique.
Parallax View
Richard T. Jameson
The essence of the Ambersons and of Ambersons is mortality.
Variety
Variety Staff
Orson Welles devotes 9,000 feet of film to a spoiled brat who grows up as a spoiled, spiteful young man. This film hasn't a single moment of contrast; it piles on and on a tale of woe, but without once striking at least a true chord of sentimentality.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The emotional sense of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is so palpable you can taste it.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A masterpiece in every way (but ignore the awkward ending the studio tacked on without Welles's approval).
Austin Chronicle
Shawn Badgley
This is Orson Welles' lost movie, one he might have been able to rescue, had he been less brash -- and a film he and others believed to be superior to Citizen Kane.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Having mastered film technique in Citizen Kane, Welles devotes more attention to the characters, all of which are all individual creations rather than types. It's a deeper, more personal work than Kane even if it lacks the latter's narrative pull.
New York Times
Thomas M. Pryor
All in all, The Magnificent Ambersons is an exceptionally well-made film, dealing with a subject scarcely worth the attention which has been lavished upon it.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Told in a magnificently opulent cinematic style.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Not 'Citizen Kane,' but what is?
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I must say that I much prefer it to Citizen Kane (1941). So sue me.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A pretty sensational movie.
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
A domestic drama that is every bit the equal of Welles' Citizen Kane.
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