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Release Date: 1957

Cast: Harry Andrews, Felix Aylmer, David Oxley, Victor Maddern, Richard Todd, Patrick Barr, Francis de Wolff, Anton Walbrook, Barry Jones, Sydney Bromley, Archie Duncan, Kenneth Haigh ...MORE

Cast: Harry Andrews, Felix Aylmer, David Oxley, Victor Maddern, Richard Todd, Patrick Barr, Francis de Wolff, Anton Walbrook, Barry Jones, Sydney Bromley, Archie Duncan, Kenneth Haigh, Bernard Miles, Jean Seberg, John Gielgud, David Langton, Margot Grahame, Finlay Currie, Richard Widmark ...LESS

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Saint Joan is a 1957 British-American film adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told. At the end of the flashback, the film then returns to the play's final scene, which then continues through to the end. In 1456, Charles VII, experiences dreams in which he is visited by Joan of Arc, the former commander of his army, burned at the stake as a... MORE

Saint Joan is a 1957 British-American film adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told. At the end of the flashback, the film then returns to the play's final scene, which then continues through to the end. In 1456, Charles VII, experiences dreams in which he is visited by Joan of Arc, the former commander of his army, burned at the stake as a heretic twenty-five years earlier. In the dream he tells Joan that her case was retried and her sentence annulled. He recalls how she entered his life as a simple, seventeen-year-old peasant girl; how she heard the voices of Saints Catherine and Margaret telling her that she would lead the French army against the English at the siege of Orléans and be responsible for having the Dauphin crowned king at Rheims cathedral. When Joan arrives at the Dauphin's palace at Chinon she discovers that he is a childish weakling with no interest in fighting. After being tested by the members of the court, who LESS