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Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Average Rating
2.9
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4.5
Michael Gordons direction doesnt always fulfill the romantic, tragic, comedic and action possibilities, but permits a number of players to account for ..
Variety
3.8
The story, the ugly romantic swordsman helping a lesser wit Christian (William Prince) properly woo Cyranos lovely cousin Roxanne (Mala Powers) hits i ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.4
Your opinion of Ferrers work will depend upon your taste in acting. This is technique work, like Oliviers. The performance feels outward bound, theatr ..
Tv Guide
3.5
Your opinion of Ferrers work will depend upon your taste in acting. This is technique work, like Oliviers. The performance feels outward bound, theatr ..
Tv Guide
1.5
Outside M. Ferrers performance there is much to provoke disappointment.
The Times
3.0
Michael Gordon directs in journeyman fashion, while William Prince and Mala Powers are adequate as the young lovers.
Radio Times
2.0
Stanley Kramers production, directed by Michael Gordon, is well acted by Jose Ferrer, who won the Best Actor Oscar.
Emanuellevy
1.5
Audiences, traditionally willing to meet this impossibly romantic classic half way, may have to go a bit further this time.
Time
4.5
Withal, there is beauty and magic in the things that Cyrano says. He is still a magnificent character. Thank goodness, he is on the screen.
Ny Times
4.0
...good acting, eloquent dialogue, high adventure, and, most of all, heartbreaking romance.
Movie Metropolis
4.5
Ferrer... has siezed the part of Cyrano, lifted it out of its mediocre surroundings, and made it human, dignified and plausible.
Spectator
1.5
I feel this is a fairly stock Cyrano, played the way almost any competent (or even exceptional) actor might have played it.
OutWeek
1.5
Although having genuine qualities in their own right, both performance and production fail to catch the essence of the play.
OutWeek
1.5
But this slender coincidence is about the only point in favor of a film biography which doesnt even superficially recapture the wild and wacky atmosph ..
Maclean's Magazine
1.5
Cyrano de Bergcrac is one of Hollywoods happiest attempts at a classic.
Associated Press
1.5
Such broad strokes of old fashioned footlight hokum seem glaringly magnified by the realistic eye of Director Michael Gordons camera.
Content Time
1.5
Ferrer dominates the film. Like him, it sparkles at the outset. But it begins to die a long while before he does.
Daily Telegraph (Australia ..
4.5
the MOVIE IS A rousing good yarn in which Ferrer romps about spouting poetic pharses and skewering opponents with the true aplomb of a Renaissance her ..
Baltimore Afro-American
1.5
The screens collection of immortal heroes is increased by the addition now of Cyrano de Bergerac.
4.5
Heres the perfect picture combination: Americas first actor In one of the great theatrical roles of all time, in a production by Hollywoods newest gen ..
5.0
Line 3.0.32 A fascinating film which you Line 3.0.33 shouldnt miss.
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