Lon Chaney

Patsy Ruth Miller

Norman Kerry

Kate Lester

Winifred Bryson

Nigel De Brulier

Brandon Hurst

Ernest Torrence

Tully Marshall

Harry von Meter

Raymond Hatton

Nick De Ruiz

Eulalie Jensen

Roy Laidlaw

Ray Myers

William Parke

Gladys Brockwell

John Cossar

Edwin Wallock

Fred Behrle

Joe Bonomo

Earl Gordon Bostwick

Helen Broneau

C.E. Collins

Jim Collins

Harry De Vere

Louise Emmons

Charles Farrell

Al Ferguson

Max Garnetz

John George

Eva Gordon

John Gough

Cesare Gravina

Marion Gray

Charles Haefeli

Fred Herzog

Karl Holl

Alfred Hollingsworth

Harry Holman

Al Hoxie

Jay Hunt

Arthur Hurni

Paul Hurst

John Impolito

Gladys Johnston

Bob Kortman

Louise La Planche

Ethan Laidlaw

Eva Lewis

Elmo Lincoln

William Lloyd

Eric Mack

Andy MacLennan

Albert MacQuarrie

George MacQuarrie

Harry Mann

Alex Manuel

Louis Miller

Dorothy Mueller

William O'Rourke

Russ Powell

Albert Prisco

Mabel Richardson

Walter Rodgers

Gilbert Roland

Eugene H. Roth

Lou Salter

Nick Shaid

Jane Sherman

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Rene Traveletti

Pearl Tupper

Robert Wahlberg

Malcolm Waite

Fred Walker

Fanny Warren

Clarence Wilson

Elmer Sheeley

Carl Laemmle

Maurice Pivar

Wallace Worsley

Edward Curtiss

Robert Newhard

Sidney Ullman

Irving Thalberg

Sydney Singerman

Chester L. Roberts

Friend Baker

Gordon Magee

Victor Hugo

Harvey Parry

Fred A. Datig

Tony Kornman

Eric van Meissel

Edgar Stein

Jack Freulich

Finn Froelich

Karl Gotham

George M. Stallings

Stephen Goosson

George Merhoff

Cliff Shirpser

Stephen S. Norton

William Koenig

James Dugan

Robert Wyler

Perley Poore Sheehan

Charles D. Hall

Harry D. Brown

Charlotte Woods

Virgil Miller

Charles Gemora

Guy B. Baird

Edward Cronenweth

Charles J. Stumar

William Wyler

Edward T. Lowe Jr.

Hans Dreier

Soldier Graham

Bud Barner

Eddie Barry

Jack Sullivan

Henry Freulich

Bert Kohler

Earl Miller

Archie Hall

Fred Sealock

Albert Conti

Arthur E. Shadur

Wayne West

Romance

Drama

Horror

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I reckon that this has to be the saddest of all love stories ever written - in any language! Although top billing goes to the pathetically grotesque Lon Chaney as the bell-ringer "Quasimodo", I think the plaudits must go to Patsy Ruth Miller as the persecuted gypsy "Esmerelda" in this 1923 adaptation of Victor Hugo's story. The score is hauntingly effective as both battle prejudice, jealousy and enmity from high and low society; with plots for revolution against the rather despotic rule of Louis XI never far from the theme. Chaney's make up is not great, even by the standards of the day, and it would not look out of place in a "Tarzan" film, but that matters little to the wonderfully evocative efforts from director Wallace Worsley to enshrine this classical story of lust, power and sadness to film, with a narrative that emphasises more of the emotional aspects of the story than many of it's successors. Particularly effective is the use of light and staging (partly Parisian, partly Californian) too. 2¼ hours may look long, but this positively flies by - rarely, if ever, making you want it to hurry up. Great stuff.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME "Esmeralda is rescued from the gallows by Quasimodo" Clip

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME "Quasimodo is crowned the King of Fools" Clip

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