Hunt for lost 'Magnificent Ambersons' footage in Brazil

[RayKelly]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin-william-friedkin-ambersons/

[Dan]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin-william-friedkin-ambersons/

I first thought that Baldwin was going to physically join in the search. I pictured him scouring Brazilian warehouses at night with a big flashlight.

[tonyw]

Perhaps he could put on his Trump make-up and launch a kickstarter appeal suggesting that Brazil has documents verifying who actually won the election?

[Steve Paradis]

Humor aside, a couple of big Hollywood names and an expectation of a payday might shake a few more memories loose, and open a few more doors.

[Wich2]

My hope remains that - as with much such "Reality (!) TV" - the trick here is that the ballyhoo and "mystery" is just a milking of the fact that they actually do already have something in hand...

- Craig

[Dan]

My hope remains that - as with much such "Reality (!) TV" - the trick here is that the ballyhoo and "mystery" is just a milking of the fact that they actually do already have something in hand...

- Craig

I think a lot of us here have had that same thought but after 79 years it's doubtful. Now if TCM flies Geraldo Rivera down to Brazil you may be on to something.

[Steve Paradis]

79 years? Try 500+.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumatio ... of_England
After this, nothing will surprise me.

[atcolomb]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin-william-friedkin-ambersons/

I first thought that Baldwin was going to physically join in the search. I pictured him scouring Brazilian warehouses at night with a big flashlight.

I hope Geraldo Rivera does not help with the search. He came up empty with Al Capone's vault.