Joan of Arc

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

Cast

Ingrid Bergman

as Joan of Arc

Francis L. Sullivan

as Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais

J. Carrol Naish

as John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor

Ward Bond

as La Hire

Shepperd Strudwick

as Father Massieu, Joan's Bailiff

Gene Lockhart

as Georges de la Trémouille, the King's Chief Counsellor

John Emery

as Jean, Duke d'Alencon, cousin of Charles

Leif Erickson

as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans

Cecil Kellaway

as Jean le Maistre, Inquisitor of Rouen

José Ferrer

as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France

Reviews

John Chard

But if I had a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, I could not go back. I must go forward now. In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. Up steps a teenage farm girl who claims to hear voices from heaven telling her to le...

CinemaSerf

Whatever you do, try to avoid the dreadfully hacked version of this - the original version; coming in at just under 2½ hours is far, far better. That said, however - it still isn't all that great. Ingrid Bergman doesn't so much act as Joan of Arc, she suggests quite strongly that Joan of Arc would h...

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