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The budget for The Magnificent Ambersons was set at $853,950, roughly the final cost of Citizen Kane. During shooting the film went over budget by 19 percent ($159,810), bringing the cost of the Welles cut to $1,013,760.
Jul 8, 2022 · Movies Features Orson Welles. In 1942, Orson Welles made the greatest film that never existed. Coming off the critical success of Citizen Kane —a film that, despite not initially doing well at the...
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction .
The Magnificent Ambersons: Directed by Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt. 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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- Drama, Romance
- Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
- 1942-07-10
Mar 4, 2002 · The adaptation of Booth Tarkington's tragic novel about the life of the Amberson family in 1870s America deserved much better treatment.
1942 USA. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello. 88 minutes. = 169. Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’ masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio.
The Magnificent Ambersons. 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.
