The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520078574)

Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, "They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios drastically recut the completed film. None of that deleted footage is known to survive.

Now film scholar Robert Carringer has reconstructed Welles's own version of Ambersons, using all available surviving evidence including rare studio documents and the recollections of Welles himself and other original participants in the film.

Carringer reaches startling conclusions about where the responsibility for the film's undoing ultimately lies. His spellbinding--and no doubt controversial--book will be eagerly welcomed by film historians and enthusiasts.

Author: Robert L. Carringer
ISBN-10: 0520078578
ISBN-13: 9780520078574
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/29/1993
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 10.18h x 7.42w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/1993