deedee gauzot on July 6, 2012 at 6:28am Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand . It uses poet Brian Hooker 's 1923 English blank verse translation as the basis for its screenplay. [ 1 ] The