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Notre-Dame de Paris (1956)

Actors: Daniel Emilfork (actor), Camille Guérini (actor), Jacques Dufilho (actor), Paul Bisciglia (actor), Georges Douking (actor), Pierre Fresnay (actor), Paul Bonifas (actor), Edmond Beauchamp (actor), Philippe Clay (actor), Alain Cuny (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Van Doude (actor), Pierre Fresnay (actor), Hubert de Lapparent (actor), Jacques Hilling (actor),

Plot: 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. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...

Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, alchemy, archery, attempted-kidnapping, attempted-murder, attempted-rape, based-on-novel, beating, beggar
Genres: Drama, History, Horror,

Quotes:

Esmeralda: [dying] Life is wonderful.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Actors: Ralph Dunn (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Charles Drake (actor), Sig Arno (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), George Barrows (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Curt Bois (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), Budd Fine (actor),

Plot: King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimoto to catch her. Quasimoto, with the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimoto to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire the Husband of Esmeralda, and Quasimoto, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows.

Keywords: 15th-century, acrobat, actor, alone, archbishop, arrest, bag-over-head, balancing-a-chair-on-one's-chin, bald-man, baldness
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Impact ! Power ! Pathos ! Drama ! Drama Unparalleled ! Spectacle Beyond Belief ! ! IMPACT! POWER! FIRE! PATHOS! DRAMA! (original print ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: Ohh, you asked me why I saved you. I tried to carry you off, and the next day, you gave me a drink of water, and a little pity.

Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [half-laughing, half-weeping] I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!

Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [to one of the stone gargoyles] Why was I not made of stone - like thee?

[Watching Esmeralda dance]::Louis XI, King of France: Doesn't she make your pulse beat faster?::The King's Physician: I'm a widower four times, sire, but I could begin all over again.

Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

Clopin: Try to take a purse out of that pocket, but if one single bell jingles, you fail.::Gringoire: And then?::Clopin: And then you hang!::Gringoire: [pondering for a moment] Can you do it?::Clopin: I'm above that sort of thing. I cut throats. I don't cut purses.

Clopin: [to Gringoire immediately following flogging of Quasimodo] Never trust a man with pinched nostrils and thin lips.

Louis XI, King of France: Doctor, lend me half a livre.::The King's Physician: Half a livre?::Louis XI, King of France: Afraid I won't repay you?

Witness to flogging: Our whipper could make him cry.::Witness to flogging: Are you saying you have a better whipper in Marseilles than we have in Paris?::Witness to flogging: Yes! [they knock him off the steps]

Gringoire: Your hands are like ice. You're not afraid are you?::Esmeralda: Not now oh Gringoire, Why did I ever come to paris?::Gringoire: Don't cry darling::Esmeralda: I keep thinking and thinking How I came here to soften the king heart towards my people until my silly heart betrayed me for that I deserve to die.::Gringoire: You will not! I will get you free::Esmeralda: You will look out after my people when I am gone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Actors: Norman Kerry (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Jay Hunt (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Nigel De Brulier (actor), John Cossar (actor), Alfred Hollingsworth (actor), Lon Chaney (actor), Harry Holman (actor), Charles Farrell (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Cesare Gravina (actor), John George (actor), John Gough (actor), Bob Kortman (actor),

Plot: Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, rescues her and captures Quasimodo. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. After Clopin forces Esmeralda to leave Phoebus at the ball, she sends a note to Phoebus to meet her at Notre-Dame. In the garden, Phoebus is stabbed in the back by Jehan. Esmeralda is accused of stabbing Phoebus, convicted by the courts and sentenced to hang. When Esmeralda again rejects Jehan, he tells her that Phoebus is dead, even though it is not true. Clopin, Phoebus and Quasimodo all try different ways to save Esmeralda.

Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, attempted-kidnapping, attempted-rape, based-on-novel, battering-ram, beggar, bell, bell-ringing, bellringer
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Quasimodo: [title card] Sanctuary! Sanctuary!