Movies:
Saint Joan
- Rating:
- Genre: Drama
- Movie Type: Biography
- Themes: Message From God
- Director: Otto Preminger
- Main Cast: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud
- Release Year: 1957
- Country: US/UK
- Run Time: 110 minutes
- MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Jean Seberg - Joan of Arc
- Richard Widmark - Charles the Dauphin
- Richard Todd - Dunois
- Anton Walbrook - Bishop Cauchon
- John Gielgud - Earl of Warwick
Felix Aylmer - Inquisitor; Harry Andrews - John de Stogumber; Barry Jones - De Courcelles; Finlay Currie - The Archbishop of Rheims; Bernard Miles - The Master Executioner; Patrick Barr - Capt. Le Hire; Kenneth Haigh - Brother Martin Ladvenu; Archie Duncan - Robert de Baudricourt; Margot Grahame - Duchesse de la Tremouille; Francis de Wolff - La Tremouille; Victor Maddern - Soldier; David Oxley - Gilles de Rais/"Bluebeard"; Sydney Bromley - Baudricourt's Steward; David Langton - Captain of Warwick's Guard; David Hemmings
