Joan of Arc (1948)

Shepperd Strudwick: Father Massieu - Her Bailiff

Quotes 

• Joan of Arc : I have heard my voices again - they told me I did a very wicked thing by denying them, but they have forgiven me. I have faith in them - I have none in you.

  Jean le Maistre : This is a fatal answer.

  Father Massieu : Joan, do you know what this means? It means the fire - your death.

  Joan of Arc : To live without faith is more terrible than the fire, more terrible than dying young. I have nothing more to do here. Send me back to God, from whom I came.

• Offscreen Narrator : As she knelt there in the little ruined chapel... the voices of her saints spoke to her again and again, urging her to become a soldier, to lead the armies of France, to crown the Dauphin at Rheims. Impossible things they asked of her, and asked again.

• Father Massieu : Go... Child of God... Daughter of France... go!

• Joan of Arc : I should be in a church prison, guarded by women. Must you leave me here, Father Massieu?

  Father Massieu : I am commanded to leave you here. God keep you, child.

• Father Massieu : O mistaken men, traitors to yourselves and your country, you thrust greatness and an undying name upon your chief enemy!