Saint Joan

1957
U
1h 50m

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In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her... Read allIn 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.

Director
- Otto Preminger
Writers
- Graham Greene
- George Bernard Shaw
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6.4/10

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Director
- Otto Preminger
Writers
- Graham Greene
- George Bernard Shaw
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Audrey Hepburn was originally offered the role of Joan. It was rumored that she turned it down because her husband, Mel Ferrer, wasn't approached for the part of the Dauphin, but Ferrer denied this.

Goofs
When Joan and the King stand by the river rallying the troops, the infantry men come running down the hill to join them. One of them falls on his face.

Quotes
Inquisitor: [after condemning Joan to death by fire] It's a terrible thing to see a young and innocent creature crushed between the Church and the Law.
Cauchon: You call her innocent?
Inquisitor: Quite innocent, she didn't understand a word we were saying.

Alternate versions
Also available in computer colorized version (Hal Roach VHS)

Connections
Featured in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)

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Not as bad as usually thought

This is an under-rated version of the story of the farm girl who fought the British and helped kick them out of France. Seberg is nowhere near as bad in this movie as reputation would suggest (and looks great with a way cool cropped hair-do), and there are good performances from Geilgud, Richard Widmark, and Richard Todd. It does have to be said, though, that this is not a movie for action-lovers - the centrepiece of Joan leading the troops in the liberation of Orleans, for example, is replaced by a fade-to-black! The movie is also quite stagey and it is stylistically easy to think it was made at least ten years earlier than it's 1957 release date. The movie makes a nice change if you are fed up with the Ingrid Bergman version, though.