![]() While one may question Welles' choice of theme, as well as his conception of the Tarkington novel, it must be admitted that he has accomplished with marked success what he set out to do. Welles is imposing when he asks moviegoers to become emotionally disturbed over the decline of such minor league American aristocracy as the Ambersons represented in the late Eighteen Seventies. The Capitol's new film, however magnificently executed, is a relentlessly somber drama on a barren theme.In a world brimful of momentous drama beggaring serious screen treatment, it does seem that Mr. Welles still apparently refuses to make concessions to popular appeal. And yet, with all his remarkable talent, Mr. He has an eloquent, if at times grandiose, flair for the dramatic which only the camera can fully capture and he has a truly wondrous knack for making his actors, even the passing bit player, behave like genuine human beings. ![]() With only two pictures to his credit, last year's extraordinary "Citizen Kane" and now Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons," Orson Welles has demonstrated beyond doubt that the screen is his medium. ![]()
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