Jan 12th
The Hunchback of Notre Dame**
US 1923. Universal. 120m approx. bw. silent
A deformed bellringer saves a persecuted gypsy orphan from the gallows.
The first notable Hollywood adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, and although the style of silent acting restrains the richness of the characters (the definitive version came along in 1939), this is nonetheless a brilliantly mounted and designed Gothic epic, a formative vehicle for the original "Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney.
Written by: Perley Paul Sheehan, Edward T. Lowe Jnr, from the novel "Notre Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo.
Producer: Carl Laemmle.
Director: Wallace Worsley.
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson, Nigel de Lister, Brandon Hurst, Ernest Torrance, Tully Marshall, Henry Van Meter, Raymond Hatton.
Photography: Robert S. Hewhard, Tony Kornman.
Art Direction: E.E. Sheeley, Sydney Ullman.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame**
US 1923. Universal. 120m approx. bw. silent
A deformed bellringer saves a persecuted gypsy orphan from the gallows.
The first notable Hollywood adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, and although the style of silent acting restrains the richness of the characters (the definitive version came along in 1939), this is nonetheless a brilliantly mounted and designed Gothic epic, a formative vehicle for the original "Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney.
Written by: Perley Paul Sheehan, Edward T. Lowe Jnr, from the novel "Notre Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo.
Producer: Carl Laemmle.
Director: Wallace Worsley.
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson, Nigel de Lister, Brandon Hurst, Ernest Torrance, Tully Marshall, Henry Van Meter, Raymond Hatton.
Photography: Robert S. Hewhard, Tony Kornman.
Art Direction: E.E. Sheeley, Sydney Ullman.
Labels: silent films
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