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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Universal (1923)
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Silent
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#479
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133 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Lon Chaney Quasimodo
Patsy Ruth Miller Esmeralda
Norman Kerry Phoebus de Chateaupers
Kate Lester Madame de Condelaurier
Winifred Bryson Fleur de Lys
Nigel De Brulier Don Claudio
Brandon Hurst Jehan
Ernest Torrence Clopin
Tully Marshall King Louis XI
Harry von Meter Mons. Neufchatel
Raymond Hatton Gringoire
Harry Van Meter Mons. Neufchatel
Director
Wallace Worsley
Producer Irving Thalberg
Carl Laemmle
Writer Victor Hugo
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Cinematography Robert Newhard

Hunchback's story revolves around a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) and the men in the life. Esmeralda's possessive guardian is Clopin, King of the Beggars (Ernest Torrence). He is willing to barter her to advance his interests and those of his impoverished followers. She loves and is loved in turn by Phoebus de Chateaupers (Norman Kerry) a cavalier of King Louis XI (Tully Marshall). Esmeralda is also the obsessive object of Jehan (Brandon Hurst) the villainous brother of Dom Claudio (Nigel De Brulier) the cathedral's saintly Archdeacon. And she is adored by Quasimodo, the grotesque bellringer of Notre Dame for her kindness to him after an unjust flogging. During a tender moment between the dancer and the soldier, the jealous Jehan stabs Phoebus. Esmeralda is accused of the crime, tortured and sentenced to hang. Workmen from the cathedral stop laboring to enjoy her public execution, the following day, while Quasimodo watches in horror.
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