The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
December 19, 1956Release Date
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
December 19, 1956Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Gina Lollobrigida
Esmeralda
Anthony Quinn
Quasimodo
Alain Cuny
Claude Frollo
Jean Danet
Phoebus de Chateaupers
Damia
The Beggar
Marianne Oswald
La Falourdel
Danielle Dumont
Fleur de Lys
Valentine Tessier
Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Robert Hirsch
Pierre Gringoire
Philippe Clay
Clopin Trouillefou
Maurice Sarfati
Jehan Frollo
Jean Tissier
Louis XI
Jacques Hilling
Maitre Charmolue
Boris Vian
The Cardinal
Madeleine Barbulée
Madame Outarde
Jacques Dufilho
Guillaume Rousseau
Robert Hakim
Producer
Roger Blin
Mathias Hungadi
Piéral
The Dwarf
Roland Bailly
The Hangman
Robert Lombard
Jacques Coppenole
René Renoux
ProductionDesigner
Hubert de Lapparent
Guillaume de Harancourt
Paul Bonifas
Master Lecornu
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 19, 1956
Original NameNotre-Dame de Paris
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Content RatingPG
Budget$1,000,000
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Wiki.
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.
In the tradition of many sword and sandal spectacles, Quinn and Lollobrigida are the only two actors in the film who actually speak in English; the rest of the cast is made up of French actors who have had their voices dubbed into English. In the French version both Quinn and Lollobrigida speak French.
Anthony Quinn's portrayal of the hunchback Quasimodo is less disfigured than most other portrayals. Instead of having a huge hump and a hideously deformed face, he only has a small curve in his spine and a slightly deformed face.
The film is one of the few adaptations to use Victor Hugo's original ending; although Esmeralda is killed by a stray arrow rather than hanged. Esmeralda's last words were: "Life is wonderful" ("C'est beau, la vie"). A voiceover narration tells us at the end that several years afterward, an excavation group finds the skeletons of Quasimodo and Esmeralda intertwined in an embrace.