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Director: Otto Preminger
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From Time Out Film Guide
Even hardcore Preminger fans number this stage adaptation among his lesser works. As usual ambiguity is the theme within the theme - no big surprise when a play by an agnostic (GB Shaw) is adapted by a Catholic (Graham Greene). The film inverts the Joan enigma, with a number of ironical insights. The very production seems equivocal: deliberately bare and skimped to enable us to concentrate on the text, and/or because Preminger was not about to splash out on such a dubious box office prospect. The subsequent troubled progress and self-murder of Jean Seberg adds a further layer of ambiguity, both as eerie distraction and poignant complement.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, John Gielgud, Anton Walbrook, Richard Todd, Harry Andrews full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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