Directed by:
Orson WellesScreenplay:
Orson WellesComposer:
Bernard HerrmannCast:
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Orson Welles (narrator), Nancy Gates (more)VOD (1)
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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 characterized by 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. (Criterion)
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Citizen Kane / The Magnificent Ambersons
Label: Soundtrack Factory
Year: 2000
Country: Andorra
Format: CD
Length: 47:10
1. | CITIZEN KANE: Main Title | Bernard Herrmann | 01:32 |
2. | Rosebud | Bernard Herrmann | 00:58 |
3. | News On The March | Bernard Herrmann | 07:22 |
4. | Searching Traces On The Thatcher Library | Bernard Herrmann | 02:17 |
5. | Arrival To "The Chronicle" | Bernard Herrmann | 01:35 |
6. | Kane Meet Benrnstein | Bernard Herrmann | 01:08 |
7. | Party On "The Inquirer" | Bernard Herrmann | 03:03 |
8. | Mr. Kane Politician | Bernard Herrmann | 02:37 |
9. | Kane And Miss Susan | Bernard Herrmann | 00:51 |
10. | Operatic Fiasco At The Opera House | Bernard Herrmann | 02:09 |
11. | Memories Of The Susan Life | Bernard Herrmann | 06:25 |
12. | The Decline Of A Bel Canto Diva | Bernard Herrmann | 02:09 |
13. | Disbanding Xanadu | Bernard Herrmann | 03:16 |
14. | End Title | Bernard Herrmann | 01:06 |
15. | MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: Main Title | Bernard Herrmann | 02:06 |
16. | The Arrogant Ambersons | Bernard Herrmann | 00:24 |
17. | The Great Ball | Bernard Herrmann | 00:34 |
18. | The Young People Promenade | Bernard Herrmann | 00:39 |
19. | Death Of Wilbur Minafer | Bernard Herrmann | 01:32 |
20. | Morgan's Love Letter From Isabel | Bernard Herrmann | 02:27 |
21. | Isabel Death | Bernard Herrmann | 01:17 |
22. | End Title | Bernard Herrmann | 01:43 |
The Magnificent Ambersons
Original 1942 Motion Picture Score
Label: Preamble
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 49:50
Notes: New recording conducted by Tony Bremner.
1. | Theme & Variations; George's Homecoming | Bernard Herrmann | 07:14 |
2. | Snow Ride | Bernard Herrmann | 03:00 |
3. | The Door; Death & Youth | Bernard Herrmann | 01:01 |
4. | Toccata | Bernard Herrmann | 01:07 |
5. | Pleasure Trip | Bernard Herrmann | 01:01 |
6. | Prelude | Bernard Herrmann | 01:25 |
7. | First Nocturne | Bernard Herrmann | 04:03 |
8. | Garden Scene | Bernard Herrmann | 01:09 |
9. | Fantasia | Bernard Herrmann | 02:05 |
10. | Scene Pathetique | Bernard Herrmann | 02:14 |
11. | Waiting 1 And 2 | Bernard Herrmann | 01:27 |
12. | Ostinato | Bernard Herrmann | 01:47 |
13. | First Letter Scene | Bernard Herrmann | 03:20 |
14. | Second Letter Scene; Romanza | Bernard Herrmann | 02:07 |
15. | Second Nocturne | Bernard Herrmann | 03:17 |
16. | Departure; Isabel's Death | Bernard Herrmann | 01:43 |
17. | First Reverie; Second Reverie | Bernard Herrmann | 02:35 |
18. | The Walk Home | Bernard Herrmann | 02:44 |
19. | Garden Music | Bernard Herrmann | 02:54 |
20. | Elegy | Bernard Herrmann | 01:18 |
21. | End Title | Bernard Herrmann | 02:19 |