An Orson Welles Classic Is Getting Destroyed Footage Remade In The Worst Way Possible

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Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" has suffered enough. 83 years ago, when RKO exercised their right to reedit Welles' 131-minute cut while the director was in Brazil making the movie "It's All True" to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy, the studio slashed what might've been a masterpiece superior to "Citizen Kane" down to 88 minutes. While there is greatness in the truncated cut, it's also plagued by tonal whiplash and a happy ending that betrays Welles' much darker vision (which was in keeping with the Booth Tarkington novel on which the film is based). Worst of all, if the 131-minute print that was sent to Welles in Brazil is never discovered (which, even with search efforts funded by TCM ,