Peter Bogdanovich On Orson Welles - (TCM Original) TCM Classic Film Festival

Magnificent Ambersons, The - (Original Trailer)

A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Get A Horse!

Lucy (Anne Baxter) and local scion George (Tim Holt) on a sleigh ride encounter her father, inventor Eugene (Joseph Cotten) and his merry band in his motor-car in a spectacular sequence from Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Will Resent It

Writer-director Orson Welles enjoying his shot, as spiteful aunt Fanny (Agnes Moorehead) means to congratulate nephew George (Tim Holt) for defending the honor of her sister, his mother, as it becomes clear he was unaware of the rumored offense of which she was accused, in The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) The Magnificence

Joseph Cotten (as "Eugene") is featured in the unaccustomed role of a fashion model, supporting the director's famous narration at the opening of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, from the Booth Tarkington novel.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Your Devilish Machines

Major Amberson (Richard Bennett) leads the dinner conversation in which the affronted George (Tim Holt) insults automobile entrepeneur Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Very Well Indeed!

Director Orson Welles' narration and shooting set up George Amberson (Tim Holt) in his single-minded greetings to Eugene (Joseph Cotten), the one-time beau of his society-matron mother (Dolores Costello), and his daughter Lucy (Anne Baxter) in The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.