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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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