Dec 22,1948
Hollywood Movies | Drama | War | History
| nudity | No nudity. Joan's jailkeeper looks at her lustfully, and at one point tries to rape her. There are women in the first scene with Joan and her troops. They are referred to as "camp followers", which is a euphemism for prostitutes. But we never even see them flirting with the soldiers, much less having sex with them. When her soldiers take leave of her for the last time, there is an extremely subtle, unspoken hint, immediately sensed by Joan, that Jean, Duke of Alencon, is platonically in love with her. She leaves him quickly, since the idea of falling in love and having a romantic relationship would conflict with her mission to save France. |
| violence | Joan is shot with an arrow during one of the battles, but is miraculously healed almost immediately. Another character, Sir William Glasdale, rather than surrender to her, plunges to a fiery death. Fighting with swords, arrows and cannon in the battle sequence. Joan is threatened with torture. We never see her being tortured, but she faints. Joan is burnt to death at the stake at the end of the picture. We do not actually see her burn, but we can tell that it is happening because of her gasp of pain, and because the fire eventually consumes the crucifix that she is holding. |
| profanity | Very mild profanity, and Joan talks her troops into not swearing at all. |
| alcohol | Very mild drinking. |
| frightening | The battle scene previously mentioned. The trial becomes intense at one point, and Joan eventually breaks down. She also cries and protests when her captors break their word and put her back into a men's prison rather than a women's one. Early in the film, she bursts into tears when not sure of how to go about her mission. She also cries when an enemy deliberately throws himself into a fire, and again after the battle, when thinking of the cost in human lives. The film is often emotionally intense because of Ingrid Bergman's excellent acting. |
