Tag: The Magnificent Ambersons
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This Orson Welles Movie Was Ruined in the Editing Bay
Orson Welles never comfortably fit in Hollywood. His debut feature, Citizen Kane, may well hold the distinction as the most acclaimed film ever made, but its success did little to deter the onslaught of problems that would plague much of his subsequent career. The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, and Touch of Evil (to…
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The Magnificent Ambersons: rebirth for ruined Orson Welles masterpiece that rivalled Citizen Kane
The studio ‘butchered’ the legendary director’s 1942 film. Now an ambitious project is under way to restore itThe idea of deleting scenes from a film by renowned actor-director Orson Welles would be sacrilege today. But just after he made his masterpiece Citizen Kane for Rko in 1941, studio executives butchered his next great movie, The…
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TCM to Help Fund Documentary Searching For Orson Welles’ Original Cut of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
Director Orson Welles‘ 1942 movie The Magnificent Ambersons was taken away from him by Rko after it earned negative test scores, with the studio scrapping nearly an hour of his footage, reshooting additional scenes, and cooking up a completely different ending than Welles originally intended. The resulting Frankensteined version is still widely regarded as a…
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Streaming: the best Hollywood golden age classics now on iPlayer
The BBC has snapped up 23 gems from the Rko vaults, from Fred and Ginger to salty romcoms and rousing westernsMany a friend and family member has told me they’re watching more classic cinema than usual in lockdown, and not just because they’ve binged every bit of new content Netflix has to offer. Nostalgia, however…