Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan of Arc. A lavish historical spectacle, with Ingrid Bergman giving it some breath of life (TIME...
There is probably no actress today better suited to play Joan than Ingrid Bergman. She has said that it has long been her ambition to do so, a factor which must have been partially responsible for her touching portrayal of the Maid in Maxwell Anderson's clap-trap "Joan of Lorraine," in which she appeared on Broadway...
...therefore really incredible that the new motion-picture, "Joan of Arc," is such a very bad one. Considering the talent and the story, a worse job could not have been done. It is garish, turgid, and tedious. Its heavy-handedness and stupidity exemplifies much that is wrong with Hollywood. It is Joan of the Arc Lights...
...first hour of the film is a little better than the last hour-and-a-quarter. It deals with Joan's first hearing the voices (which miraculously are kept off the sound track) and her subsequent struggles to see the Dauphin. It is not until the Siege of Orleans that all patience is lost with Walter Wanger and Company and is never again regained...
...Joan of Arc. A lavish historical spectacle, with Ingrid Bergman giving it some breath of life (TIME...