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Cyrano de Bergerac. José Ferrer in a cinemadaptation that somewhat magnifies the faults of the Rostand classic without dimming its virtues (TIME...
Cyrano de Bergerac (Stanley Kramer; United Artists) is Hollywood's first attempt to film Edmond Rostand's classic verse comedy about the monstrous-nosed swordsman-poet who wooed his adored Roxane for another man. If it is not all that admirers of the play might wish, it is more than most of them might dare to expect. Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer keeps faith with the unabashedly romantic spirit of the original, and Actor Jose Ferrer, who gave Broadway its most recent (1946) production of the play, is the very embodiment of Rostand's self-sacrificing, self...
Whirlpool's one bright spot is Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when...
Seaver will continue as director of the new dramatic series, according to present plans, Doane stated. Last night's production, an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, the type of feature for which the studio was originally intended when construction began, he added...
...series will start Oct. 1 with Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Walter Hampden. At the close of the program a voice will ask: "How can we make sense out of this confused and troubled world? . . The place to begin is with ourselves." The voice, referring to "Cyrano's lifelong, self-denying love for Roxane," says that Cyrano made sense out of his existence "not by crying out in bitterness over his physical ugliness . . . [but] by making something out of himself." Listeners are told that it will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church...