Top billed cast

1. 

   Lon Chaney

   Quasimodo

2. 

   Patsy Ruth Miller

   Esmeralda

3. 

   Norman Kerry

   Phoebus de Chateaupers

4. 

   Kate Lester

   Madame de Condelaurier

5. 

   Winifred Bryson

   Fleur de Lys

6. 

   Nigel De Brulier

   Don Claudio

7. 

   Brandon Hurst

   Jehan

8. 

   Ernest Torrence

   Clopin

9. 

   Tully Marshall

   El Rey Luis XI

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06

I reckon that this has to be the saddest of all love stories ever written - in any language! Although top billing goes to the pathetically grotesque Lon Chaney as the bell-ringer "Quasimodo", I think the plaudits must go to Patsy Ruth Miller as the persecuted gypsy "Esmerelda" in this 1923 adaptation of Victor Hugo's story. The score is hauntingly effective as both battle prejudice, jealousy and enmity from high and low society; with plots for revolution against the rather despotic rule of Louis XI never far from the theme. Chaney's make up is not great, even by the standards of the day, and i...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,250,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• paris, france
• based on novel or book
• death sentence
• black and white
• silent film
• hunchback
• notre dame cathedral
• roma