00:09The Ambersons, literature's most fascinating family, brought to the screen by the magic of
00:16Orson Welles. Richard Bennett plays old Major Amberson, the tyrannical head of a family that
00:21had all the rights of royalty and none of its responsibilities. Dolores Costello returns to
00:26the screen with a magnificent portrayal of Isabel, the major's daughter, who left the
00:30man she loved to wed another who was more acceptable. From Citizen Kane, you will remember
00:35Agnes Moorhead, who plays thin, spinsterish Aunt Fanny, a lonely woman in a house of wealth.
00:41No one would guess that Fanny had a secret love. Ray Collins is Uncle Jack, the black sheep
00:47of the Ambersons. And Joseph Cotman, who plays Eugene Morgan, the man who came out of the
00:51past, to find his first love once again. Finally, Isabel's boy, young George, played
00:58by Tim Holt, Ed's strong impetuous and arrogant heir to the splendor of the young George, who
01:04hated Eugene Morgan, the man his mother really loved, and stood between their happiness like
01:09an avenging angel. Don't you think you should tell George?
01:15About us?
01:16Yes.
01:17You're not wanted in this house, Mr. Morgan.
01:19I'm afraid I don't understand.
01:21Perhaps you'll understand this.
01:24So scandal at last attacked the house of Amberson. Scandal spread by Isabel's own sister.
01:30Scandal spread by her own son, who broke into every house in town to make them take back the
01:34things they said about his mother. That high and mighty Amberson girl who fell in love just
01:39once too long. The Magnificent Ambersons brings you many
01:45of the mercury players you first saw in Citizen Kane. It brings you Orson Welles as commentator,
01:50director, and producer of a truly distinguished and exciting motion picture.
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