Saint Joan the Maid

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.

Cast

Simone Genevois

Jeanne d'Arc

Fernand Mailly

La Hire

Georges Paulais

Nicolas Loyseleur

Jean Debucourt

Charles VII

Philippe Hériat

Gilles de Rays

Gaston Modot

Lord Glasdall

Daniel Mendaille

Lord Talbot

Jean-Louis Allibert

François Viguier

Genica Athanasiou