Erskine Sanford

Highlighted works

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  Citizen Kane

  Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.

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  The Magnificent Ambersons

  Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’ masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio.

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  Letter from an Unknown Woman

  Max Ophuls brought his trademark flowing camera style and a taste of the old Vienna to Hollywood for this tragic story of unrequited love.

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  The Best Years of Our Lives

  William Wyler’s poignant account of three WWII veterans adjusting to the difficulties of life back home swept the Oscars in 1946.