Released Date:
1949-04-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
145 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1803 Reviews)
Director:
Victor FlemingMaxwell Anderson (play)
Maxwell Anderson (screenplay)
Andrew Solt (screenplay)
In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years 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 conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.
Released Date:
1951-07-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (8126 Reviews)
Director:
David LeanCharles Dickens (by)
David Lean (screen play)
Stanley Haynes (screen play)
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.
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