Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
- small town
- marriage proposal
- jealousy
- love of one's life
- marriage crisis
- only child
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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)
- Harry A. Bailey — Citizen (uncredited)
- Olive Ball — Mary (Maid) (uncredited)
- Jack Baxley — Reverend Smith (uncredited)
- William Blees — Young Man at Accident (uncredited)
- Directed
- Orson Welles
- Written
- Orson Welles
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 481 ratings
- Studio
- Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
