The Magnificent Ambersons (Criterion Collection)

Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead. A wealthy, spoiled young man does all he can to ensure that his widowed mother doesn’t marry her former sweetheart in this Orson Welles-directed masterpiece. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. Includes two audio commentary tracks featuring scholars and experts, new interviews with historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride, new video essay on the film’s cinematographers, new essays by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted, interview with Welles, segment from a 1925 silent adaptation, audio interviews with Welles, two Mercury Theatre radio plays, original trailer and essay by critic Molly Haskell on 2 DVDs or 1 Blu-ray Disc. 1942/b&w/88 min/NR/fullscreen.