DVD
The magnificent Ambersons
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (88 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
The socially prominent Midwestern Amberson family sees their fortunes undone by industrialization and pride.
Notes
From the novel by Booth Tarkington.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum ; new interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride ; new video essay by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted ; director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970 ; segment from a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons ; audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich ; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939) ; trailer.