Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac
by Michael Gordon

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Actor: Jos? Ferrer, Mala Powers, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, William Prince
Director: Michael Gordon
Brand: FERRER/POWERS/PRINCE/CLANTON/FARMER
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video

DVD Reviews of Cyrano de Bergerac

DVD Review: Cyrano de Bergerac (Enhanced) 1950
Summary: 1 Stars

This video is terrible. I thought I was getting a colorized video of the classic. However, I was entirely wrong. It's black and white with poor video quality. The video is hazy and blurry, hardly worth the price the source of such was asking. Absolutely no recommendation for the purchase of this product.

DVD Review: Bring me giants!
Summary: 5 Stars

Having never read Cyrano before (pardon me while I hang my head in shame) I wasn't familiar with the story. The character, yes -- nearly everyone knows something about the theme of this tale -- but I was terribly uninformed of the greatness of the story. Watching the movie opened up a wonderful world to me. I immediately liked the dashing yet vulnerable, heroic yet fallible, Cyrano. His heart is immense, his courage without reproach, his honor without blemish, and despite the almost superhuman-ness of him he is still a man with a man's weaknesses and fears. Ferrer played Cyrano with an almost fanatical passion, a greatness that the screen barely contains. I found him amazing! At my next trip to the library I borrowed the book and devoured it, discovering that the story and writing are treasures that I only wish I'd encountered years before.

Yes, I'm smitten with Cyrano. He's become a personal hero to me, a man who writes sterling poetry, defends his friends to the death, loves with ferocity, handles a sword as though he were born with one in his hand, serves his king and country nobly, keeps his honor pure throughout his trials, spins fantastical tales with ease, and through it all has a silent and noble strength that never falters. How lucky a man would be to have such a friend, and how fortunate a man would be if he could only BE such a man. Such a man do I endeavor to be.

Buy this movie and the book -- give yourself a treat and relish them both over and over. If you have romance in your soul and courage in your heart you will love Cyrano as I do.

DVD Review: Bad dub
Summary: 1 Stars

This splendid film was never the best looking movie ever made, being done on a low budget in black and white, but this so-called "enhanced" edition is so badly transferred to disc as to be virtually unwatchable.

DVD Review: movies worth owning
Summary: 5 Stars

When you read the play this is taken from and then watch the movie, you can be totally entranced by the fact that they have taken an ok play and made it into a spectacular movie. The character, "Cyrano," has been used in many different forms in other writings, plays and movies over the years. Even Steve Martin did a remake of this for modern times,ROXANNE. Nowhere near as good as the original, but a
remake all the same. This has a moral side to it, besides the falling in love and the war being fought through it, that embodies what true integrity is and how a person makes decisions that always show that side of his character. Truly good for all ages.

DVD Review: Cyrano de Bergerac
Summary: 5 Stars

Great older, back and white movie. Has comedy and romance. Jose Ferrer is fantastic as Cyrano.

Description of Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano is a wonderful poet but feels ugly due to his huge nose. When he agrees to help a friend woo a woman, she falls in love with the poetry and the poet.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: FERRER/POWERS/PRINCE/CLANTON/FARMER
Title: CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1950)
Street Release Date: 11/18/2003
Domestic
Genre: DRAMA

Edmond Rostand's ineffably romantic play about the big-nosed soldier and swordsman with a poet's soul looks stagey in this 1950 film adaptation. But, thanks to a heartfelt performance by Jose Ferrer (who won an Oscar for the role), the beauty of Rostand's words shines through. Ferrer plays Cyrano, who is in love with the beautiful Roxanne but is unable to tell her so for fear that she will reject him because of his extremely prominent nose. In a heart-breaking turn, she confesses her love to him--but it is love for another man, a soldier under his command named Christian. Christian, however, is a good-hearted but tongue-tied youngster, and so the older Cyrano woos Roxanne vicariously by supplying Christian with his own words of love, most famously in a balcony scene in which Cyrano speaks for himself while pretending to be Christian. Ferrer is tender, tough, and funny and single-handedly pulls this film to near-greatness. --Marshall Fine

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