Basato sull’omonimo romanzo di Booth Tarkington, vincitore del Premio Pulitzer. Il giovane erede viziato della decadente fortuna di Amberson si mette tra la madre vedova e l’uomo che ha sempre amato.

The films of Orson Welles are marked by a fascination with lost Edens and falls from greatness, and none more so than this pungent masterpiece, with its broken ideals and decaying grandeur. Butchered by the studio on release, The Magnificent Ambersons plays like a wounded elegy for its very self.