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 great […]The post TCM to Help Fund Documentary Searching For Orson Welles’ Original Cut of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ appeared first on /Film.
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