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A mutilated 'Ambersons' better than none.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20070427
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Byline: Michael Wilmington

Apr. 27--Orson Welles' second consecutive movie masterpiece, 1942's "The Magnificent Ambersons," sealed his fate in Hollywood. A brilliant adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on the splendor and fall of a rich, elite Midwestern family in the early 20th Century, starring Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt and Dolores Costello, it was torn from Welles' control by the philistinish RKO board, heavily cut (by about 40 minutes) and partially reshot by Robert Wise (also Welles' editor on "Citizen Kane"). Long regarded as a masterpiece ...

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