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Joan of Arc (1948)

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• In 1998, UCLA restored "Joan of Arc" to its original length of 145 minutes, and the complete version was finally given its first public screening in nearly fifty years, on December 3, 1998.
  
  
• This movie was originally released at 145 minutes. Forty-five minutes(!) were cut for its second run.
  
  
• The fully restored 145-minute version has recently (2004) been released on DVD.
  
  
• The cut version of the film reduced many of the supporting actors' roles (notably those of Hurd Hatfield and Jeff Corey) to mere walk-ons with all of their dialogue gone. Hatfield, especially, was practically edited out of the shorter version, so that viewers who have seen only the 100 minute cut of the film, and knew that he was in it, were left wondering if he really appeared in the movie at all.
  
  
• In some prints of the edited version, the voices of the saints that Joan hears giving her commands were also heard by the audience. In the original 145-minute version, as well as the DVD version, the saints are not heard saying anything at all. All that is heard is a solo soprano voice (supplied by Marni Nixon), singing a wordless chant when Joan first goes into battle and when she hears her voices for the last time.
  
  

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