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A Balasaur Score of 81 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 93%. Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 363 1930s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
226 audience votes
Key crew
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Sonya LevienScreenplay
- William DieterleDirector
Cast
- Charles LaughtonThe Hunchback Quasimodo
- Cedric HardwickeFrollo
- Thomas MitchellClopin
- Maureen O'HaraEsmeralda
- Edmond O'BrienGringoire
- Alan MarshalPhoebus
- Walter HampdenArchdeacon
- Harry DavenportKing Louis XI
- Katharine AlexanderMadame de Lys
- George ZuccoProcurator
- Fritz LeiberOld Nobleman
- Etienne GirardotDoctor
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Themes
sibling relationshipparis, francebased on novel or bookunrequited loveracismblack and whitekindnesshunchbacknotre dame cathedralbell ringingbeggar clanphysical deformity