The Hunchback of Notre Dame

About The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.

William Dieterle's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 horror romance film. The film is filed under unrequited love, 15th century, kindness, and hunchback.

Charles Laughton takes the lead as The Hunchback Quasimodo, Cedric Hardwicke as Frollo, Thomas Mitchell as Clopin, and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda. Released in August 1939, it runs 117 minutes.

The screenplay is by Sonya Levien. The film began as a novel. It streams on Bloodstream, FlixFling, and TCM in the United States.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame and To Kill a Mockingbird make useful companions to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, all filed under black and white and notre dame cathedral. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 227 votes and it carries a NR rating.