Contributor
Hugo, Victor 1802-1185. Notre-Dame de Paris.
Imprint:[Universal City, CA] : Universal Pictures, 2007.
Description1 videodisc ( 117 min.) : sd., color tinted. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Premiered at the Astor Theatre, Sept. 2, 1923.
Note:Videodisc release of the 1923 motion picture
Note:Silent with English caption frames and orchestral score.
Note:A sumptuous dramatization of Victor Hugo's novel produced in 1923 by Universal Studios at the then phenominal cost of $1.25 million. An extraordinary gamble, the film boldly deviated from the established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a romantic ideal but a gruesomely disfigured "monster" incapable of arousing the beautiful leading lady to anything more than pity. As Quasimoto, Lon Chaney is a marval of makeup and nonverbal expression, shuffling through the streets of medieval Paris , communing with the cathedral gargoyles, dutifully suffering the lash and humiliation for a crime committed against another, expression a heart-rending love for a beautiful gypsy girl who naively sees only the military officer as the heroic ideal.
Note : PerformerLon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson, Nigel de Brulier, Brandon Hurst, Ernest Torrance, Tully Marshall.
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