Orson Welles' masterwork (Number 1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles a new in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It’s grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay AcademyAward winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man’s last word:“Rosebud.”
Directed by Orson Welles
Produced by George Shaefer and Orson Welles
Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles and John Houseman (uncredited)
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography by Gregg Toland
Editing by Robert Wise
Art Direction by
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, Nat King Cole, Alan Ladd
DVD and Blu-Ray
(Blu-Ray book)
MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 6.4 Ounces
Item model number : 24176999
Director : Orson Welles
Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Subtitled, Blu-ray, Full Screen, Original recording remastered
Run time : 1 hour and 59 minutes
Release date : January 17, 2012
Actors : Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
Producers : Orson Welles
Studio : WarnerBrothers
ASIN : B006CEKZ4Y
Writers : Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Number of discs : 2
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