

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $6.9M
- Language
- English
- sibling relationship
- paris, france
- based on novel or book
- unrequited love
- racism
- black and white
- kindness
- hunchback
- notre dame cathedral
- bell ringing
- beggar clan
- physical deformity
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR29 Dec 1939
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG31 Aug 1939
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical31 Jan 1940
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1213 Aug 1948
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical26 Jun 1947
BrazilBR
- Theatrical15 Jan 1940
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes31 Aug 1939
- Theatrical23 Apr 1940
GermanyDE
- Theatrical161 Apr 1949
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical30 Jan 1941
HungaryHU
- TheatricalKN18 Oct 1940
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12 Apr 1940
ItalyIT
- Theatrical14 May 1948
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released on 31 August 1939.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
8/28/2014
Incredible film-making, bravo for real classics. What a truly lavish and gorgeous film this is, thematically it pulls the emotions in different directions, and as a story it's as sharp as a tack. Boasting a quite incredible performance from Charles Laughton as the tragic bell ringer Quasimodo (no nomination Academy, are you flipping sure?), and sets that are simply out of this world, this film to me defines classi…
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
The is a wonderfully evocative version of the timeless Victor Hugo story of love, desire, cruelty and brutality in 1490's Paris. Charles Laughton turns in a tour de force performance as the physically and mentally disabled "Quasimodo" who is feared, loathed and ridiculed by the local population. When a wandering gypsy girl "Esmerelda" (quite possibly Maureen O'Hara's best ever performance) is found guilty of murder h…
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