Saint Joan
A Brilliant Triumph!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd & John Gielgud | |
| Performer: | Felix Aylmer, Harry Andrews, Anton Walbrook & Barry Jones | |
| Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
| Edited by | Helga Cranston | |
| Screenwriting by | Graham Greene | |
| Art Direction by | Ray Simm | |
| Produced by | Otto Preminger | |
| Director of Photography: | Georges Périnal |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Even hardcore Preminger fans number this stage adaptation among his lesser works.
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Time Out
One of Otto Preminger's most underrated features.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The fervor of the child-soldier is lost on the screen; she appears to be sweet and naive, not the calculating personality Shaw intended and wrote of in the play's prolog.
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TV Guide
The then unknown Seberg in the central role is surrounded by an eminent cast, many of whom act as badly as she but seem above criticism.
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Film4
Preminger's version of Bernard Shaw's play about the Maid of Orléans is much less impressive than the months of thunderous ballyhoo that heralded it.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Mr. Preminger, his scenarist and his cast, who obviously were serious in tackling an important drama, have only fashioned a series of dissertations on an important theme.
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New York Times
Rating: D --
Hollywood adaptations of plays rarely come off much worse than this B&W one did.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
"The story of Joan of Arc," historian Andre Maurois wrote, "is at once the most amazing miracle in history and the most logical sequence of political acts." But the church court trying the teenage girl saw neither divine intervention nor uncommon acumen in her astonishing triumphs. It saw heresy -- and death by fire. Seventeen-year-old Jean Seberg plays the visionary Maid of Orleans in Otto Preminger's production of Saint Joan, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play by Graham Greene and cast with a company of bravura talents. Richard Widmark turns his tough-guy persona on its head to play a Dauphin more court jester than future king. And stately John Gielgud is the English commander who scoffs: "The angels may be on the side of the church - but I have 800 soldiers."
Product Description:
A controversial classic that captures George Bernard Shaw's grim rendition of the Joan of Arc story, casting her as an innocent caught in the web of history. Seberg's debut.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 132,091
- UPC: 883316237403
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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