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Synopsis. The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo. Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators.
The working titles of this film were The Hunchback, Hunchback of Paris and Notre Dame of Paris.According to a April 24, 1956 Daily Variety news item, RKO still owned the rights to the title The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and so producers Robert and Raymond Hakim were at that time calling their film first The Hunchback and then Notre Dame of Paris.By June 20, 1956, according to a Hollywood ...
The Lon Chaney silent The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an important document, and a pretty good movie, especially if you can see it projected.William Dieterle's 1939 film with Charles Laughton is an outright classic, with iconic casting in every role, but in a way it, like its predecessor, is as much a travesty of Victor Hugo's story as the Disney version.
In 15th century Paris, Jehan, the evil brother of the archdeacon, plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt, which eventually leads to the peasants storming the Notre Dame Cathedral. Meanwhile, Jehan’s slave, a hunchback named Quasimodo, falls in love with the young gypsy queen Esmeralda.
Script error: No such module "other uses". The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French Notre-Dame de Paris) is a 1956 French-Italian CinemaScope film version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, directed by Jean Delannoy and produced by Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim. It stars American actor Anthony Quinn and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. The film is the first version of the novel to be made in color ...
Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Quinn (A Walk in the Clouds) and Hollywood legend Gina Lollobrigida star in this unforgettable tale of passion and desire. Lollobrigida plays the seductive ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a 1977 miniseries. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a 1982 British-American television film starring Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo, Lesley-Anne Down as Esmeralda, and Derek Jacobi as Frollo, directed by Michael Tuchner and Alan Hume and produced by Norman Rosemont and Malcolm J. Christopher.
