I’ve seen every film with Orson Welles' name attached, whether as actor, writer or director. One of my favorites is THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, his second feature film. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel about the declining fortunates of a proud Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age. The novel is a dark and tragic one, and many of those elements remain intact in the film. But the studio was worried about Welles' version, so while he was working on another project in South America, the studio reshot the ending (as well as several scenes) to be upbeat. Despite that, AMBERSONS is hailed as one of the finest American motion pictures ever made. The film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, with Welles providing the narration.