In the dream he tells Joan that her case was retried and her sentence annulled. In 1456, Charles VII ( Richard Widmark), experiences dreams in which he is visited by Joan of Arc ( Jean Seberg), the former commander of his army, burned at the stake as a heretic twenty-five years earlier.
This was the film debut of actress Jean Seberg, who won a talent search conducted by Preminger that reportedly tested more than 18,000 young women for the role. At the end of the flashback, the film then returns to the play's final scene, which then continues through to the end. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told. Saint Joan (also called Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan) is a 1957 historical drama film adapted from the 1923 George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc.
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