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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

★ 7.3 · 474 ratings on TMDB

Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!

The Magnificent Ambersons poster★ 7.3

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

DirectorOrson Welles
CastAgnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Dolores Costello, Edwin August, Erskine Sanford, Joseph Cotten
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Magnificent Ambersons keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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