The Lark

The Lark is a 1958 Australian TV version of the 1952 Jean Anouilh play of the same title. According to The Age it opened "a new era in TV drama production in Melbourne." Plot At the trial of Joan of Arc, events are shown in flashback as to how she came to rebel against the English. Cast Beverly Dunn as Joan of Arc Frank Gatliff as Cauchon Christopher Hill as Warwick Robert Peach as the Inquisitor Jeffrey Hodgson as the Dauphin John Morgan as the Promoter Moira Carleton as Joan's mother Mary Ward as Queen Yolande, the Dauphin's mother-in-law Laura Jane Casson as Agnes Sorel, as the Dauphin's mistress Carol Potter as the little Queen, wife of the Dauphin Keith Hudson as Ladvenu Ilka Brand as the Dauphin's page Brin Newton-John as the Archbishop of Rheims John Royle as narrator Henry Cuthbertson as voice of Archangel