Orson Welles' masterwork (Number 1 in the American Film Institute's list ofBest American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digitaltransfer. It’s grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many ofWelles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) anddirected with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of aninfluential 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.”
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