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The Song of Bernadette (1943)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:7
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Jennifer Jones won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her screen debut in this true story. Jones plays young French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady" near her... Jennifer Jones won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her screen debut in this true story. Jones plays young French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady" near her home in Lourdes in 1858. Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE explores Bernadette's trials and tribulations from her impoverished family to her difficulties at school to the derision her visions bring upon her and at last to her affliction with bone-marrow cancer. Under the incisive eye of director Henry King, the film is seen through Bernadette's perspective but at the same time focuses upon the effect that Bernadette has upon her family, her champions, and her detractors. The acting is excellent, and no detail has gone untouched in the art direction, costumes, and cinematography. Best of all, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE stands among a rare group of Hollywood films in which visual integrity is matched step for step with thematic zeal. [More]
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Lee J. Cobb, William Eythe
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Lee J. Cobb, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere, Blanche Yurka, Mary Anderson, Edith Barrett, Aubrey Mather, Sig Ruman
Director: Henry King
Director: Henry King
Screenwriter: George Seaton
Story: Franz Werfel
Producer: William Perlberg
Composer: Alfred Newman
Reviews for The Song of Bernadette
Like most DVD offerings in this very fine series from Fox, the transfer is pristine.
The Song of Bernadette is not a great film, but it is a very good film. It is characteristic of the kind of earnest prestige or super-spectacle picture that was always a stumbling block for an art form built on commerce and exploitation, but it is
Based on the historical novel by Jewish author Franz Werfel, the beloved classic The Song of Bernadette stands head and shoulders over most religiously themed fare from Hollywood’s golden age.
If your spiritual tuning fork doesn't already hum to The Song of Bernadette's sentimental religiosity, this is an overlong (156 minutes), overpious, and often kitschy hagiography.
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