Saint Joan (1957) ( St Joan )

Saint Joan (1957) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: St Joan
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Otto Preminger

Written By:
Graham Greene
George Bernard Shaw

Actors:
Richard Widmark ..... The Dauphin, Charles VII
Richard Todd ..... Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Anton Walbrook ..... Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
John Gielgud ..... Earl of Warwick
Felix Aylmer ..... Inquisitor
Archie Duncan ..... Robert de Baudricourt
Harry Andrews ..... John de Stogumber
Margot Grahame ..... Duchesse de la Tremouille
Barry Jones ..... De Courcelles
Francis De Wolff ..... La Tremouille
Finlay Currie ..... Archbishop of Rheims
Victor Maddern ..... English Soldier
Bernard Miles ..... Master Executioner
David Oxley ..... 'Bluebeard',- Gilles de Rais
Patrick Barr ..... Captain La Hire

Synopsis:

After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook (the Bishop of Beauvais), John Gielgud (Earl of Warwick) and Felix Aylmer (The Inquisitor). Cast as the vacillating Dauphin is Richard Widmark. Graham Greene's screenplay refashions the original Shaw text in the form of a flashback. Seberg eventually became an accomplished actress by virtue of her appearances in such nouvelle vague films as Breathless, but it was too late to salvage Saint Joan, which was figuratively burned at the stake by critics and filmgoers alike.

Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.

Screen version of Bernard Shaw's play about the Maid of Orleans.

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