Joan the Woman (1916) on Netflix
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British officer John Trent pulls an ancient sword from his trench wall before a dangerous World War I mission. That night the spirit of Joan of Arc carries him into fifteenth-century France.
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Plot summary
John Trent, a British officer in World War I, comes upon an ancient sword in the wall of his trench bunker just before he volunteers for a mission the next day. That night the spirit of Joan of Arc comes to him and carries him back to fifteenth-century France. There a peasant girl, Joan, meets Trent's ancestor, an English soldier fighting for the Burgundians. When the soldier is taken prisoner, Joan draws the notice of the Dauphin, next in line to the French throne. He cannot be crowned while the English hold the city of Orleans. Impressed by her vision and powers that appear heaven-sent, he gives her command of the French armies.
Cast
- Lawrence Peytonas Gaspard
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Joan the Woman (1916)
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- Joan the Woman was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process, billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process", for certain scenes. The effect is most noticeable in the scene of Joan burning at the stake, where red and yellow gave the sequence a heightened dramatic effect.
- In 1917 three men were arrested for stealing a print of the film from a New York film exchange and taking it to New Jersey to make a new master negative; both the print and the master were recovered. The article calls the case an early example of motion picture piracy.
- Joan the Woman was originally meant to be the first of two shorter, unrelated films starring Geraldine Farrar and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Early in filming in May 1916, producer Jesse L. Lansky convinced DeMille to combine the two into a single longer film about Joan of Arc.
