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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Name: Cyrano de Bergerac
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1950
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Cast: Don Beddoe, Virginia Christine, José Ferrer, William Prince, Mala Powers

1950113 minClassic DramaStrong rights evidence

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) is a 113-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silver Screen (CH 2) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Michael Gordon.

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About Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure-romance film based on the 1897 French alexandrine drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker's 1923 English blank-verse translation as the basis for its screenplay.

In seventeenth-century Paris, poet and master swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac stops a play from being performed because he had previously banned the principal actor, Montfleury, from the stage for a month. Annoyed aristocrat Vicomte de Valvert provokes Cyrano into a duel by insulting Cyrano's enormous nose. Cyrano composes a ballade for the duel and recites it during the sword fight. With the last line, he fatally stabs Valvert. Cyrano's friend Le Bret warns him that he has made powerful enemies of his victim's friends, but Cyrano is unconcerned.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Michael Gordon
Cast includes: Don Beddoe, Virginia Christine, José Ferrer, William Prince, Mala Powers, Percy Helton, John Crawford, Philip Van Zandt
Country: United States
Based on: Cyrano de Bergerac

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Silver Screen - CH 2, Classic Cinema

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Rostand play PD; Brian Hooker translation 1923 PD.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Rostand play PD; Brian Hooker translation 1923 PD.
Source: Internet Archive

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