Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Michael Gordon
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton
Production: VCI
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
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PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
1950
137
1,950 Views

Montfleury:
Thrice happy he who hides from pomp and power/ In sylvan shade or or solitary bower/ Where balmy zephyrs fan his burning cheeks...

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Clown! King of Clowns! Leave the stage at once!

Montfleury:
Sir, I will not allow you to insult me in this manner.

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Really? In what manner would you prefer?

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Very well, let the old fellow come now. He shall find me on my feet sword in hand.

Roxane:
Cyrano!

Le Bret:
He's delirious.

Cyrano de Bergerac:
I can see him now - he grins. He is looking at my nose, that skeleton. You there - who are you? A hundred against one, eh? I know them now, my ancient enemies...

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Falsehood! There! There! Prejudice! Compromise! Cowardice! What's that? Surrender? No! Never! Never!

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Ah, you too, Vanity? I knew you would overthrow me in the end. No! I fight on! I fight on! I fight on!

Cyrano de Bergerac:
All my laurels you have riven away... and my roses; yet in spite of you there is one crown I bear away with me. And tonight, when I enter before God, my salute shall sweep away all the stars from the blue threshold! One thing without stain, unspotted from the world in spite of doom mine own

Cyrano de Bergerac:
and that is... my white plume.

Cyrano de Bergerac:
You may go/ Or tell me, why are you staring at my nose?

The Meddler:
No!

Cyrano de Bergerac:
It disgusts you then? Does its color appear to you unwholesome? /Or its form obscene? Perhaps a pimple ornaments the end of it, /Or a fly parading up and down,/ What is this portent, this phenomenon?

The Meddler:
But I've been careful not to look!

Cyrano de Bergerac:
And why not, if you please?/ Possibly you find it just a trifle large!

Antoine Comte de Guiche:
As for you sir, have you read "Don Quixote"?

Cyrano de Bergerac:
I have, and found myself the hero.

Antoine Comte de Guiche:
Be so good as to read once more the chapter of the windmills... Windmills, remember, if you fight with them...

Cyrano de Bergerac:
My enemies change, then, with every wind?

Antoine Comte de Guiche:
...may swing round their huge arms and cast you down into the mire!

Cyrano de Bergerac:
Or up, among the stars!

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