The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
Director: William Dieterle
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Cast
Charles Laughton (The Hunchback Quasimodo) · Cedric Hardwicke (Frollo) · Thomas Mitchell (Clopin) · Maureen O'Hara (Esmeralda) · Edmond O'Brien (Gringoire) · Alan Marshal (Phoebus) · Walter Hampden (Archdeacon) · Harry Davenport (King Louis XI) · Katharine Alexander (Madame de Lys) · George Zucco (Procurator)
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