The magnificent Ambersons
Record details
- ISBN: 168143525X
- ISBN: 9781681435251
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Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
videodisc - Edition: Special edition.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from sell sheet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942. Special features: two audio commentaries; new interviews; new video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas; new video essay on the films score by scholar Christopher Husted; Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970; segment from Pampered youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939); trailer; essay by critic Molly Haskell. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead. |
Summary, etc.: | A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
System Details Note: | DVD. |
Language Note: | Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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Subject: | Social change Drama Mothers and sons Drama Inheritance and succession Drama Children of the rich Drama Families Indiana Drama |
Genre: | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Film adaptations. Fiction films. Domestic drama. Feature films. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | DVD M (Text) | 34027142233058 | Adult DVD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | DVD DRAMA MAG (Text) | 36123144372883 | Adult DVD | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | MAG (Text) | 34010143716420 | Adult DVD | Available | - |