An early Cecil B. DeMille film, which helped establish him as a Hollywood powerhouse, a full 40 years before his last and most successful film, "The Ten Commandments". "Joan the Woman" may have been the first Joan of Arc biopic...
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An early Cecil B. DeMille film, which helped establish him as a Hollywood powerhouse, a full 40 years before his last and most successful film, "The Ten Commandments". "Joan the Woman" may have been the first Joan of Arc biopic on film. In it, a British soldier in WWI finds a sword that was used by St. Joan herself, and receives a vision of Joan, telling him that he is actually the same person who betrayed her nearly 500 years earlier, and that he must expiate himself of his sin against her. The life and death of the maiden flashes befores his eyes, occupying most of this long silent movie, and at the end he agrees to go on a dangerous mission for the Allies, one from which he cannot return. This was filmed during the height of the Great War, making it all the more interesting.