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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

NR ★ 7.3/10 88 min Drama, Romance United States English
Director: Orson Welles
Screenplay by: Orson Welles
Novel: Booth Tarkington
Streaming: Not available
Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!

Description

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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Top Cast

Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt
Tim Holt George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins
Ray Collins Jack Amberson
Erskine Sanford
Erskine Sanford Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett Major Amberson

The Magnificent Ambersons Appears on 13 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #848
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #947
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #187
Metacritics Top 250 Movies Of All Time
Metacritic #99
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #441
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Sight & Sound #178

Critic Curated

BBC Culture: 100 Greatest American Films
BBC #11
Paste Magazines 50 Best Films Of The 1940s
Paste Magazine #23
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #308

Filmmaker Curation

Francois Truffaut's List Of Favorite Films
LaCinetek #97
Guillermo Del Toro's Greatest Films Of All Time
Letterboxd #10
James Gray's 50 Favorite Films
LaCinetek #23

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1940-1949 Films
Letterboxd #86

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