Ingrid Bergman

Francis L. Sullivan

J. Carrol Naish

Ward Bond

Shepperd Strudwick

Gene Lockhart

John Emery

Leif Erickson

Cecil Kellaway

José Ferrer

Selena Royle

Robert Barrat

Jimmy Lydon

Rand Brooks

Roman Bohnen

Irene Rich

Nestor Paiva

Richard Derr

Ray Teal

David Bond

George Zucco

George Coulouris

Nicholas Joy

Richard Ney

Vincent Donahue

John Ireland

Henry Brandon

Morris Ankrum

Thomas Browne Henry

Gregg Barton

Ethan Laidlaw

Hurd Hatfield

Frederick Worlock

Dennis Hoey

Colin Keith-Johnston

Mary Currier

Roy Roberts

Taylor Holmes

Alan Napier

Philip Bourneuf

Aubrey Mather

Stephen Roberts

Herbert Rudley

Frank Puglia

William Conrad

John Parrish

Victor Wood

Houseley Stevenson

Jeff Corey

Bill Kennedy

Eve Whitney

Bert Stevens

Chuck Hamilton

Julia Faye

John Benson

Herbert Evans

Mary Field

Jack Gargan

Everett Glass

Herschel Graham

Eula Guy

Frank Hagney

Gregory Marshall

Lee Miller

Manuel París

Russell Simpson

Richard Alexander

Lester Dorr

Victor Fleming

Maxwell Anderson

Walter Wanger

Hugo Friedhofer

Joseph A. Valentine

Frank Sullivan

Billy Selwyn

Richard Day

Joseph Kish

Casey Roberts

Dorothy Jeakins

Barbara Karinska

Raoul Pene Du Bois

Jack Pierce

Lilyan Lashman

Merle Reeves

Ray Romero

Norman A. Cook

Edward Salven

Edward Ullman

Andrew Solt

Emil Newman

Jerome Moross

Charles Henderson

Natalie Kalmus

Richard Mueller

William Randall

Gene Garvin

Jack Cosgrove

John P. Fulton

Ruth Roberts

Michel Bernheim

Herschel McCoy

Horace Hough

Slavko Vorkapich

Winton C. Hoch

William V. Skall

Drama

History

Joan of Arc

Walter Wanger Productions

RKO Radio Pictures

United States of America

English

Français

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 lead God's army against Orleans and to crown the weak Dauphin Charles VII as the King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and advances on Orleans - from here real history is formed in all its heroic and tragic glory...

Savaged by some critics, cut by the studio to various run times, it really is a case of asking film fans to at least see the now readily available full 145 minute version to give it a fair trial. Starring Ingrid Bergman in the title role and directed by a clearly fawning Victor Fleming (he takes every single opportunity to focus on Bergman's natural beauty), it's unfortunately a mixture of a stirring historical epic with over theatrical stage bound theatricals.

Bergman, although surrounded by a great array of superlative supporting players, carries the lead role with aplomb. She clearly dives into the role with a passion of some distinction and film lovers are rewarded with a performance of great depth and feeling, none more so with the sequences in the last tragic quarter of the pic. 

The screenplay by Maxwell Anderson and Andrew Holt (based on the play "Joan of Lorraine") is beautifully written, with dialogue passages that stir the blood whilst holding court. For some the literate passages may come off as long winded, even tedious, but in Bergman's hands they hopefully will entice the masses in the way that "The Maid of Orleans" actually did. 7.5/10

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 have been just like her! The pained, saintly expression coupled with the rousing battle cries and heartfelt pleading make it hard to imagine the real woman could have been anything but! José Ferrer expertly plays the, duplicitous, selfish monarch who'd betray his own mother for a sou in a creepily magnetic fashion and, of course, Francis L. Sullivan is super as the presiding Bishop Cauchon serving whichever master suits him best so long as our heroine goes to the flames. The rest of the cast rather underperform though: Ward Bond, Gene Lockhart and Cecil Kellaway are fish out of water and Lief Erickson is frankly dreadful in the quite pivotal role of Dunois. The writing is dreary; way too wordy. The ensemble performances never seem to set foot out of doors, which renders the battle scene largely ineffective and the trial scenes are just all too bitty to establish any genuine sense of the threat she was under during this corrupt trial. Maybe it needed Cecil B. De Mille to take the grand scale cinematography to it - the story certainly merits it; but this is uncomfortably constricted and too physically theatrical. The costumes are glorious, though, and the lighting does go some way to compensate for the rigidity the production. Well worth watching, but it could have been much better had Victor Fleming had more imagination.

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