Joan of Arc (1948)
Greatest of all spectacles!
Genre : War, Drama, History
Runtime : 2H 25M
Director : Victor Fleming
Writer : Maxwell Anderson, Andrew Solt
Synopsis
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.
Joan of Arc
Pierre Cauchon, Count-Bishop of Beauvais
John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor
La Hire
Father Massieu, Joan's Bailiff
Georges de la Trémouille, the King's Chief Counsellor
Jean, Duke d'Alencon, cousin of Charles
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Jean le Maistre, Inquisitor of Rouen
The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
Isabelle d'Arc, Joan's Mother
Jacques d'Arc, Joan's Father
Pierre d'Arc, Joan's younger brother
Jean d'Arc, Joan's older brother
Durand Laxart, Joan's Uncle
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
Jean de Metz, a knight
Bertrand de Poulengy, a squire
Jean Fournier, Curé of Vaucouleurs
Constable of Clervaux
Sir Robert de Baudricourt, Governor of Vaucouleurs
Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims and Chancellor of France
Charles de Bourbon, Duke de Clermont
Alain Chartier, court poet
Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
Giles de Rais, Captain
Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
Raoul de Gaucourt, Captain
Louis de Culan, Captain
Jean d'Aulon, Joan's squire
Father Pasquerel, Joan's Chaplain
Duke of Bedford, England's Regent
Sir William Glasdale
Philip, Duke of Burgundy
Jeanne, Countess of Luxembourg
Wandamme, a Burgundian Captain
The Bishop of Avranches
Earl of Warwick
Jean d'Estivet, a Prosecutor
Jean de La Fontaine
Thomas de Courcelles, a Prosecutor
Isambard de la Pierre
Nicolas de Houppeville, judge
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
Jean Beaupere, a judge
Nicolas Midi, a judge
The Cardinal of Winchester
Joan's prison guard
Thierache, Joan's Executioner
Court Lady / Camp Follower (uncredited)
English Knight (uncredited)
Jean de Honeycourt (uncredited)
Townswoman (uncredited)
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