It's All True, he was unable to prevent (*) RKO from cutting forty minutes of footage and filming a happier ending scene between Fanny and Eugene.
In this film, an iris out ends a shot of a car full of singing people driving over a hill. One of AndrÃ© Bazin's favorite examples of "in-depth decoupage" was a long take from this film in which a character gorges himself on strawberry shortcake, its "kitchen scene." A scene of this film set in a boiler-room was reshot after test audiences laughed at Agnes Moorehead's hysterical crying during it. Near the end of this film, the camera zooms out on a main character kneeling at his dead mother's bed as the narrator states that he "had got his comeuppance." Because its director was in Brazil shooting It's All True, he was unable to prevent (*) RKO from cutting forty minutes of footage and filming a happier ending scene between Fanny and Eugene. This film contrasts Eugene Morgan's success in car manufacturing with the decline of the title family. For 10 points, name this second Orson Welles feature film after Citizen Kane, which is adapted from a Booth Tarkington novel.
In this film, an iris out ends a shot of a car full of singing people driving over a hill.
The Magnificent Ambersons