Cyrano de Bergerac w/ Jose Ferrer
Starring - Jos? Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac, Mala Powers as Roxane, William
Prince as Christian de Neuvillette, Ralph Clanton as Antoine Comte de Guiche,
Morris Carnovsky as Le Bret, Edgar Barrier as Cardinal Richelieu, Lloyd Corrigan
as Ragueneau, Albert Cavens as Vicomte de Valvert, Virginia Farmer as Duenna,
Directed by - Michael Gordon (1950) - B&W - 112 min
Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer as Cyrano in the screen adaptation
of Edmond Rostand's classic play. Jose Ferrer is nothing short of brilliant
in his portrayal as the Cyrano - a gifted poet, wordsmith, swordsman, and a
man with a beautiful and tender heart. But with all these gifts - he was also
given a monster sized nose, that reminds one of the proboscis monkey - it is
huge and hideous, a perfect foil for the lavish gifts he has been given. Cyrano
loves a beautiful woman named Roxane, who happens to be a distant cousin, but
he is afraid to tell her how he feels about her, because he is afraid of rejection.