Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- sibling relationship
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- unrequited love
- racism
- black and white
- kindness
- hunchback
- notre dame cathedral
- bell ringing
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charles Laughton
The Hunchback Quasimodo
Cedric Hardwicke
Frollo
Thomas Mitchell
Clopin
Maureen O'Hara
Esmeralda
- Edmond O'Brien — Gringoire
- Alan Marshal — Phoebus
- Walter Hampden — Archdeacon
- Harry Davenport — King Louis XI
- Katharine Alexander — Madame de Lys
- George Zucco — Procurator
- Fritz Leiber — Old Nobleman
- Etienne Girardot — Doctor
- Helene Reynolds — Fleur de Lys
- Minna Gombell — Queen of Beggars
- Arthur Hohl — Olivier
- Directed
- William Dieterle
- Written
- Sonya Levien
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 222 ratings
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
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