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The hunchback of Notre Dame [videorecording] / based on the novel by Victor Hugo ; adaptation by Perley Poor Sheehan and Edward T Lowe, Jr. ; directed by Wallace Worsley ; and Michael F. Blake.

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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Hugo, Victor 1802-1185. Notre-Dame de Paris.
Chaney, Lon, 1883-1930.
Worsley, Wallace, 1878-1944.
Sheehan, Terley, Poore, 1875-1943.
Lowe, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1890-1973.
Laemmie, Carl, 1867-1939.
Series Statement
Buhl Library Video Collection
Subject:
French fiction -- 19th century -- Film and video adaptations.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Silent films.
Black and white films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Historical films.
Silent films.
Fiction films.