Title: Cyranno with Panache!
Product review: "These are things you might have said if you had some trace of wit or letters with which to color your discourse, but of wit you have none, and of letters you have but three: a-s-s."That's a quote from Cyranno's repartee before the opening swordfight in this magnificent version of Rostand's play, from the golden days of PBS and its "Theater in America" series, hosted by Hal Holbrook. Here one encounters the snappiest dialogue and Peter Donat's peerless portrayal of the hero as soldier-poet and Platonic lover. If you are a serious Cyranno fan (meaning you cherish language as much as he did), this is the Cyranno for you. Bid Jose's dumbed down, B movie treatment (Oscar or no) -- as well as Gerard's sluggish fat guy -- adieu, and celebrate Donat's Cyranno, the lean fighting machine of language, combat and altruistic love, according to the highest ideals of the West.
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