![]() Turner Classic Movies is now sponsoring documentarian and Ambersons footage truther Joshua Grossberg to go to Brazil, where he believes Welles’ version is hiding, and return with the holy grail of cinema. A substantial group of optimists believe that the footage is still out there, though. RKO didn’t just eliminate those 43 minutes-they destroyed them, allegedly melting them down so that the nitrate could be used in the war. ![]() On the striking revision, Welles said, “They destroyed Ambersons and they destroyed me.” When the director showed up to RKO Pictures with a dense 131-minute cut, the studio proceeded to excise 43 minutes and reshot the ending to be more uplifting. But what might have been Welles’ true masterpiece never quite ended up seeing the light of day. ![]() It follows a once-affluent Midwestern family living in the second industrial revolution of the 1870s, who are on the brink of financial ruin and obsoletion. ![]() Coming off the critical success of Citizen Kane-a film that, despite not initially doing well at the box office, is now universally heralded as a masterpiece-he chose to adapt The Magnificent Ambersons. In 1942, Orson Welles made the greatest film that never existed. ![]()
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