The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939·117'

William Dieterle

DramaHorrorRomance

★ 7.3

Letterboxd TMDB #31685

Impact! Power! Fire! Pathos! Drama!

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

Cast

Charles Laughton The Hunchback Quasimodo

Cedric Hardwicke Frollo

Thomas Mitchell Clopin

Maureen O'Hara Esmeralda

Edmond O'Brien Gringoire

Alan Marshal Phoebus

Walter Hampden Archdeacon

Harry Davenport King Louis XI

Katharine Alexander Madame de Lys

George Zucco Procurator

Fritz Leiber Old Nobleman

Etienne Girardot Doctor