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Saint Joan (1957)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:2
Rotten:6
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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.
Starring: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Harry Andrews
Starring: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Harry Andrews, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud, Felix Aylmer, Barry Jones
Director: Otto Preminger
Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Screenwriter: Graham Greene
Composer: Mischa Spoliansky
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Reviews for Saint Joan
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.
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.
Even hardcore Preminger fans number this stage adaptation among his lesser works.
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.
Hollywood adaptations of plays rarely come off much worse than this B&W one did.
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