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The Films of Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

starring
Joseph Cotten , Agnes Moorehead with Tim Holt , Dolores Costello
Orson Welles ' second feature film has the same electric feeling of excitement, freshness and discovery that pervades Citizen Kane. In Booth Tarkington's story of the decline and fall of a great American family, he in fact adopted an even more experimental and improvisatory approach to the medium. The result is one of his most enthralling - and deeply-felt - pictures.
Screenplay by ORSON WELLES based on the novel by BOOTH TARKINGTON Produced and directed by ORSON Welles (Black: and white) Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Cotten
Unknown:
Agnes Moorehead
Unknown:
Tim Holt
Unknown:
Dolores Costello
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Novel By:
Booth Tarkington
Eugene Morgan:
Joseph Cotten
Isabel Amberson:
Dolores Costello
Lucy Morgan,:
Anne Baxter
George Amberson Minafer:
Tim Holt
Fanny Minafer:
Agnes Moorehead
Wilbur Minafer:
Don Dillaway
Jack Amberson:
Ray Collins
Major Amberson:
Richard Bennett
Bronson:
Erskine Sanford
Sam j:
Louis Johnson
Drugstore clerk:
Gus Schilling
Uncle John:
Charles Phipps
Mrs Foster:
Anne O'Neal
Nurse:
Hilda Plowright
Source: Radio Times

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