Joan of Arc (1. 94. Joan of Arc is a 1. American hagiographicepic film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine, which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the screen by Anderson himself, in collaboration with Andrew Solt. It is the only film of an Anderson play for which the author himself wrote the film script (at least partially). Bergman had been lobbying to play Joan for many years, and this film was considered a dream project for her. It received mixed reviews and lower- than- expected box office, though it clearly was not a . Donald Spoto, in a biography of Ingrid Bergman, even claims that .
In April 1. 94. 9, five months after the release of the film, and before it had gone out on general release, the revelation of Bergman's extramarital relationship with Italian director Roberto Rossellini brought her American screen career to a temporary halt. The nearly two- and- a- half- hour film was subsequently drastically edited for its general release, and was not restored to its original length for nearly fifty years. Bergman and co- star Jos. The film was director Victor Fleming's last project . While contemporary critics may have agreed with Fleming's assessment of Joan of Arc, more recent reviewers of the restored complete version on DVD have not. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off- screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Linhares, Quinta-feira, 13 de Outubro de 2016. Jeanne d'Arc est un film r. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians. At Domr. Severe), a Captain. Henry Brandon as Gilles de Rais, a Captain. Morris Ankrum as Poton de Xaintrailles, a Captain. Tom Brown Henry as Raoul de Gaucourt, a Captain. Gregg Barton as Louis d'Culan, a Captain. Ethan Laidlaw as Jean d'Aulon, her squire. Hurd Hatfield as Father Pasquerel, her Chaplain. Ward Bond as La Hire, a Captain. The Enemy. The Trial at Rouen, February 2. May 3. 0, 1. 43. 1Francis L. Sullivan as Bishop Pierre Cauchon of Beauvais, the trial conductor. Shepperd Strudwick as Father Jean Massieu, her Bailiff. Taylor Holmes as the Bishop of Avranches. Alan Napier as Earl of Warwick. Philip Bourneuf as Jean d'Estivet, a Prosecutor. Aubrey Mather as Jean de La Fontaine. Herbert Rudley as Thomas de Courcelles, a Prosecutor. Frank Puglia as Nicolas de Houppeville, a Judge. William Conrad as Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor. John Parrish as Jean Beaupere, a Judge. Victor Wood as Nicolas Midi, a Judge. Houseley Stevenson as The Cardinal of Winchester. Jeff Corey as her Prison Guard. Bill Kennedy as Thierache, her Executioner. Cecil Kellaway as Jean Le Maistre, Inquisitor of Rouen. Louis Payne as Judge Thibault (uncredited)Academy Award wins and nominations. When the film was shortened for its general release in 1. RKO, but by a company called Balboa Film Distributors, the same company which re- released Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, also starring Ingrid Bergman. The 1. 94. 8 Sierra Pictures never produced another film after Joan of Arc. Reception. However, reviewers in 1. Children were also sometimes played by older actors at the time; the sixteen- year- old Judy Garland had very convincingly played twelve- year- old Dorothy Gale in the 1. The Wizard of Oz, another film directed by Victor Fleming, and the nineteen- year- old Charlotte Henry had played Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1. Several contemporary critics criticized the film for being slow- paced and dialogue- driven. When the film was shortened for its general release in September 1. RKO, but by a company called Balboa Film Distributors, the same company which re- released Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, also starring Ingrid Bergman. The complete 1. 45 minute version of Joan of Arc remained unseen in the U. S. Although the complete Technicolor negatives remained in storage in Hollywood, the original soundtrack was thought to be lost. The movie was restored in 1. Europe, containing the only known copy of the complete soundtrack. When it finally appeared on DVD, the restored complete version was hailed by online movie critics as being much superior to the edited version. It was released on DVD in 2. The edited version received its first television showing on CBS on the evening of April 1. Easter weekend), and has been shown on Ted Turner's WTCG and on cable several times. Although the complete, unedited version of the film was scheduled to be shown on American television for the first time on February 1. Turner Classic Movies, with a broadcast window of 2- 1/2 hours, it was pulled and the 1. Sunday, February 2. However, the full- length version was finally shown on Turner Classic Movies on March 1. This marked the first time that the complete unedited version had ever been shown on American television. It has now been shown several times by TCM and appears to have supplanted the edited version. Differences between complete and edited versions. The narration is more detailed in the edited version than in the complete version, with much of it used to cover the breaks in continuity caused by the severe editing. The edited version omits crucial scenes that are important to a psychological understanding of the narrative, such as the mention of a dream that Joan's father has which foretells of Joan's campaign against the English. When Joan hears of the dream, she becomes convinced that she has been divinely ordered to drive the English out of France. Most of the first ten minutes of the film, a section showing Joan praying in the Domr. In the edited version, the story begins after Victor Fleming's director's credit, while in the full- length version, after the director's credit, a title card saying . More than thirty of the actors are listed. The edited version might be considered more cinematic through its use of maps and voice- over narration to explain the political situation in France. American Film Institute. 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