The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Directed by Orson Welles
small town
marriage proposal
jealousy
love of one's life
marriage crisis
only child
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Cast
Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt
George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead
Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins
Jack Amberson
Erskine Sanford
Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett
Major Amberson
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
Edwin August
Citizen (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
Matron (uncredited)
Don Dillaway
Wilbur Minafer (uncredited)
Crew
Orson Welles
Director
Orson Welles
Screenplay
Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Robert Wise
Editor
Stanley Cortez
Director of Photography
Orson Welles
Producer
Vernon L. Walker
Special Effects
Albert S. D'Agostino
Production Design
David Sharpe
Stunt Double
Mark Robson
Additional Editing
Orson Welles
Additional Photography
Robert Wise
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
165 reviews
WilliamYummy
7.0★ · 05/17/26
"...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty."
Fascinating for a 26-year-old to have made this film.
"...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty."
Fascinating for a 26-year-old to have made this film.
adrian villarreal
8.0★ · 02/22/26
talk about tracking shots! Orson Welles is so gifted with that damn camera. and his script is so strong here too. what a really great film.
talk about tracking shots! Orson Welles is so gifted with that damn camera. and his script is so strong here too. what a really great film.
Eclectic Sorcerer
8.0★ · 02/15/26
A mess, but a beautiful mess filled with Welles sensibilities.
A mess, but a beautiful mess filled with Welles sensibilities.
Eclectic Sorcerer
8.0★ · 02/15/26
A mess, but a beautiful mess filled with Welles sensibilities.
A mess, but a beautiful mess filled with Welles sensibilities.
Naïs
6.0★ · 12/26/25
Okay whatever you say, bill skarsgård doppelganger
Okay whatever you say, bill skarsgård doppelganger
