Today’s movie is a dramedy with a scene that happens on July 28. Watch it tonight.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Cyrano de Bergerac, poet and swordsman stops a play and ends up killing Vicomte de Valvert. Cyrano confesses he loves Roxanne, but feels he has no hope of winning her since Cyrano feels his enormous nose disfigures his face. Cyrano helps fellow poet Ragueneau evade a plot to kill him. Cyrano has decided to tell Roxanne he loves her, but before he can, Roxanne tells Cyrano she has fallen in love with Christian de Neuvillette. Cyrano agrees to help Roxanne win him. Cyrano learns Christian loves Roxanne, but is too shy to woo her. Cyrano writes love letters for Christian to Roxanne and even imitates Christian’s voice at an in person meeting. Cyrano prevents Christian’s commander from marrying Roxanne, and Roxanne and Christian get married. Christian and Cyrano go off to fight Spain and Cyrano continues to write letters to Roxanne for Christian. A visit from Roxanne convinces Christian that she really loves Cyrano and he gets Cyrano to agree to tell Roxanne the truth and let her pick between them. Then Christian is killed in action. Cyrano visits Roxanne for years, without confessing his feelings. Then on June 28, 1655 [1:39:20 to 1:52:28] Cyrano is fatally injured in an ambush by those who tired of his mocking poems. He visits Roxanne who finally realizes Cyrano was the man who actually wrote her the letters, just before Cyrano dies.
Producer - Stanley Kramer
Director - Michael Gordon
Screenwriter - Carl Foreman
Awards – Jose Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar at the 23rd Academy Awards
Runtime – 1 hour 52 minutes
Released – November 16, 1950
Starring –
José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac
Mala Powers as Roxane
William Prince as Christian de Neuvillette
Morris Carnovsky as Le Bret
Ralph Clanton as Antoine, Comte de Guiche
Lloyd Corrigan as Ragueneau
Virginia Farmer as Roxane's duenna
Edgar Barrier as Cardinal Richelieu
Elena Verdugo as the Orange Girl
Albert Cavens as the Viscount de Valvert
Arthur Blake as Montfleury
Don Beddoe as The Meddler
Percy Helton as Bellerose
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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