The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Silent)
This silent classic is the first feature version of the Victor Hugo epic. Lon Chaney's performance and incredible make-up vividly bring this picture to life
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DVD-R Details
- Silent film based on the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 19, 2002
- Originally Released: 1923
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lon Chaney & Patsy Ruth Miller | |
Performer: | Norman Kerry, Nigel De Brulier, Brandon Hurst, Tully Marshall, Ernest Torrence & Raymond Hatton | |
Directed by | Wallace Worsley | |
Screenwriting by | Perley Poor Sheehan & Edward T. Lowe Jr. | |
Original story by | Victor Hugo | |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle & Irving Thalberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
The self-torture demanded by Chaney's makeup is impressive, as are the scales of the sets and the crowd scenes, but nothing comes to life under the flat direction of Wallace Worsley.
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Chicago Reader
Although it is an elaborate-studied piece of work, over which much time and many dollars have been spent, it makes no tumultuous call upon our enthusiasm.
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Guardian
Worth seeing mainly for Chaney's remarkable performance; even bowed and constricted by the heavy weights he used to help simulate Quasimodo's crippled gait, his body remains extraordinarily expressive.
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Time Out
Lon Chaney created a lot of twisted wretches, vengeful villains, and criminal masterminds, but Quasimodo remains his most sympathetic screen character.
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's held up remarkably well.
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Three Movie Buffs
Rating: 3/5 --
The fourth and most spectacular silent version of Victor Hugo's classic story Notre-Dame de Paris made Lon Chaney a major star.
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TV Guide
Rating: B+ --
It's a total physical transformation that's often stunning to behold, selling effective make-up effects and behavior extremes with real gusto.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Lon Chaney, cinema's "Man of a Thousand Faces," stars in this silent classic - the first version of Victor Hugo's novel about the tortured hunchback. Half-blind and monstrously deformed, Quasimodo dwells within the sanctuary of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Ridiculed and exploited by a cruel world, he passionately rings the cathedral's great bells to express his feelings. Quasimodo secretly loves a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, for whom he sacrifices his life when he rescues her from her evil guardian. Chaney's great performance and his incredible use of make-up brilliantly evoke both terror and pity for the hunchback as this classic tale is played out in medieval Paris.
Product Description:
This silent film is the first screen version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Chaney plays the deformed bell-ringer who is smitten by a beautiful dancing girl persecuted by the wicked Bishop of Notre Dame.
Keywords:
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Romance
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Silent
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Vintage
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Tragedy
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Wise Fools
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Physically Impaired
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Essential Cinema
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Movie Lover: henri donadille from
clamart, Hauts-de-Seine FR -- March, 27, 2004
Closer to Hugo's novel than the 1939(more critically acclaimed)version and in ways as close as the 1957 version,this version remains one of the truly great silent masterpieces. Still totally watchable and absorbing tale of terror,revenge and passion set in Paris's Notre
Dame Cathedral. Unquestionably one of Chaney's finest films!
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