Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Directed by

Michael Gordon

Genre

swashbuckler film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poetic swordsman with a large nose helps his friend woo a woman, while hiding his own love for her. The story is about honor, wit, and unrequited affection set in 17th century France.

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What happens

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure film based on the 1897 French alexandrine drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker's 1923 English blank-verse translation as the basis for its screenplay. The film was the first film version in English of Rostand's play, although there had been several previous film adaptations in various languages. The film was produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Michael Gordon. José Ferrer received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Cyrano de Bergerac. The film lapsed into the public domain in the mid-1980s. In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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