Rent Saint Joan (1957)
3.3 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook (the Bishop of Beauvais), John Gielgud (Earl of Warwick) and Felix Aylmer (The Inquisitor). Cast as the vacillating Dauphin is Richard Widmark. Graham Greene's screenplay refashions the original Shaw text in the form of a flashback. Seberg eventually became an accomplished actress by virtue of her appearances in such nouvelle vague films as Breathless, but it was too late to salvage Saint Joan, which was figuratively burned at the stake by critics and filmgoers alike. - Actors:
- Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud, Felix Aylmer, Archie Duncan, Harry Andrews, Margot Grahame, Barry Jones, Francis De Wolff, Finlay Currie, Victor Maddern, Bernard Miles, David Oxley, Patrick Barr, Sydney Bromley, Kenneth Haigh, David Langton, Jean Seberg, Thomas Gallagher
- Directors:
- Otto Preminger
- Producers:
- Otto Preminger
- Writers:
- Graham Greene, George Bernard Shaw
- Studio:
- Films Sans Frontiers
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A Few More Screen Princes, Getting to Know: Audrey Hepburn, Getting to Know: Vanessa Redgrave
