The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.
Direction Orson Welles
Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead · Anne Baxter · Richard Bennett · Ray Collins · Nancy Gates
Soundtrack Bernard Herrmann
Screenplay Orson Welles · Booth Tarkington
Cinematography Stanley Cortez
Original title The Magnificent Ambersons
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