The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Laughton | |
Performer: | Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Harry Davenport, Walter Hampden, Alan Marshal, George Zucco, Katherine Alexander, Fritz Leiber & Rod La Rocque | |
Directed by | William Dieterle | |
Edited by | William Hamilton & Robert Wise | |
Screenwriting by | Sonya Levien & Bruno Frank | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman | |
Story by | Victor Hugo | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph H. August |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 90/100 --
Director William Dieterle manages a difficult task well, creating a film of both great sweep and remarkable intimacy.
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Cinemania
Rating: 5/5 --
Gorgeous, brilliant, nearly flawless. Easily the best version
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Laughton is excellent as the misshapen bellringer, cowering in the presence of that patron saint of today's Men's Rights Activists, the misogynistic hypocrite Frollo (Sir Cedric Hardwicke).
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Creative Loafing
Rating: A- --
Charles Laughton gives a riveting, haunting perfromance in this atmospheric, Oscar-nominated version, previously shot in 1923 with Lon Chaney and in 1957 with Anthony Quinn.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
In its shocking way it's really very fine.
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The Spectator
Rating: A+ --
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) is one of many film adaptations of the classic 1831 Victor Hugo 'beauty and the beast' novel about a deaf, hunch-backed, outcast bellringer Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) in the Notre Dame...
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Don't rent the Disney one by mistake.
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Product Description:
Starring Charles Laughton as the severely misshapen bellringer Quasimodo, William Dieterle's adaptation of the familar Victor Hugo classic is set in the bustling society of 15th-century Paris, as the forces of church and state strive to maintain their sway over a populace struggling for a better life. Jean Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke), chief justice of Paris, unites secular and religious authority in one foully hypocritical personage. Spying a spectacularly beautiful Gypsy woman named Esmeralda (Maureen O'Hara) in church, he sends his factotum, Quasimodo, to abduct her. Frollo's plan is foiled by Phoebus, captain of the guard (Alan Marshall), and the hunchback is sentenced to public flogging and exposure. Despite her earlier fear of Quasimodo, only Esmeralda is willing help the bound hunchback as he begs for water in the public square. The film features one of Laughton's best performances, a superb supporting cast, a vivd script, and extraordinary production values for a type of intelligent entertainment now rarely seen.
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- Sales Rank: 19,601
- UPC: 883929151387
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