Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Blu-ray)

One film that still has IT is 1939's RKO Radio production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." I bought it on Blu-Ray since Great-Great Uncle Etienne Girardot portrays Harry Davenport's (As the King of Paris) physician! The main stars are the great Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, 19 year old Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda, a very young Edmond O'Brien, a wily Thomas Mitchell as King of the Beggars, and Sir Cedric Hardwick as the lustful Jehan Frolo. Still acclaimed as the best and most empathetic filmed version (although it is unlike the original novel which is far too tragic for today's audiences in every way). The black and white photography stands out starkly and brilliantly in every detail as a Gustave Doré etching! The faces, the clothing, the buildings, and the main center-piece the Cathedral at Notre Dame are painstakingly recreated in southern California! The kind water scene is one of the most precious ever filmed. Laughton's performance after being whipped on the pillory, receiving water from the young girl who now pities him is outstanding as is the later rescue of Esmeralda by Quasimodo swinging down from a great height to grab her and take her to safety just as she is about to be hanged for the murder of the King's guard, Phoebus, the background music swells with a holy "Hallelujah" sounding like a reverent Gregorian chant mixed with a Handel like timbre. In one of Literature's greatest tragedies Esmeralda's friends and people come to help and take her from the sanctuary of the Cathedral since the King has discovered Frolo's guilt as the true murderer of Phoebus and also thinking the ogre like man might cause harm to the girl. But in his innocence, Quasimodo, during the epic's great climax, with Esmeralda now in his care, releases hot molten iron that goes streaming through the gigantic cathedral's gargoyle statues and onto the masses of people down below burning them amid much screaming and running! Truly one the film's highlights that will never be forgotten! All in all, in this version, Esmeralda falls for her Gringore (handsome Edmond O'Brien) and as she leaves the Notre Dame she looks back to see Quasimodo sitting high up next to an ugly gargoyle statue. As he piteously watches her leave with her true love he eyes the ugly stone monster and says "Why was I not made of stone like thee" then slowly the camera pans from this tight close-up revealing statue after statue, spire after spire, the gigantic rose stained glass comes into view! story after story, detail after detail until a complete foreground, the cathedral, Paris, and the sky above can be perfectly seen as is Quasimodo, still slightly visible to us, fades into cinema history as the reverent music swells once again and we see the closing shots of RKO Studios, and cast names. How this was shot was truly remarkable and seamless since it was a component of mattes and tracking mattes combined with reality. I'm not certain if the optical printer was used in any of the scenes since it just appears too seamless to me. Top-notch stuff Maynard...Douggie.

Sure Lon Chaney jr's version had great special effects for its time, but Charles Laughton's portrayal of our lumpy buddy is outstanding!! Maureen O'Hara is a knock out & Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays his part to perfection. I loved this movie the first time I saw it as a child, and am so happy to have it in my collection at last, watching it as a adult I appretiate it on a different level. This movie is awesome I hope the fact that it is black and white won't detour anyone from getting this movie... it is so good I recommend it to everyone. For fans of monster movies it is a must have, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is one of the most terrifing monsters of all time!!! Our hero the ungainly appearing hunchback decieves us all when he springs into action defending Esmerelda from execution like a acrobatic bodybuilder. Turning into a one man army Quasimodo scales the cathedral useing all the classic medevil defence tactics, hurling enormous stones down on the unruley mob, pushing away scaling ladders and one of the movies highlights pours molten metal on to the crowd, the way the molten metal distributes along the pipeing and then spews out of the mouths of the gargoyles & sprays the mob is as visualy stunning today as when the movie first came out. This movie is the perfect example of beauty is only skin deep, as at first glance Quasimodo appears to be the monster but it doesn't take long to realize that our malformed misunderstood friend is the hero, one of the few Hollywood hero's that doesn't get the girl at the end. Sir Cedric Hardwickes acting is so good as the evil Frollo it doesn't take long before your wishing a team of 400lb Irish riverdancers would jig acrossed his face! They call the year this movie came out the golden year of Hollywood because in 1939 The wizard of Oz & Gone with the wind and a long list of really big movies came out that year, The Hunchback of Notre Dame being one of them. Color was obviously available at this time but they chose B/W for either budget or artistic reasons but I wish they would have chosen glorious technicolor just because so many people today are turned off by B/W movies & it would be a shame for someone to miss out on this great film for that reason. This movie is so good you just want to share it with others. I just tried to watch this for the second time since buying it & it is all pixilated & skippy on inspection of the disc there are no visible scratches & it has been well taken care of. Other D.V.D.'s I own are playing fine but this one seems to have deteriated just sitting on the shelf! Needless to say I was very disappointed & have purchased a replacement I hope it is made better & more durable!

This classic 1939 movie remains one of my favorites of all time. I first saw it at the age of 8-10 years on our old black and white TV. The images I saw mesmerized me and have stayed clearly in my mind through the years. Charles Laughton invokes a wide range of emotion while playing the lovelorn Parisian hunchback Quasimodo and all beneath large amounts of prosthetics. His love of the woman who saves him from dehydration is fantastically portrayed by the actor and extremely moving. What I like even more about this movie is that Quasi never really gets the girl! It's nice not to have the standard Hollywood ending for a change. Not only is the acting top rate but the sets, which are mentioned in detail by other reviewers, is a joy to behold. Remember this was filmed in 1939 and they did not have the large stage sets of today. Even with that said, the sets are very impressive and beautifully created given the right impression of the period.I also agree the the only thing lacking with this movie is the DVD quality but as the movie goes on it sort of lends itself to the period, making you feel as if you are back in olden times. As someone once commented, what's the point of looking at an old movie in pristine condition. Scratches and dirt help the movie look and feel old. I'm still not sure I agree with this idea and I certainly would buy a remastered version of this if it were to appear. Having said that though, I love this movie as i am sure you will too. Once seen, never forgotten.

Fantastic movie, 10 ⭐

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME [1939] [Blu-ray] Examples of Hollywood Expertise at Work! Big Beyond Words! Thrilling Beyond Belief! Magnificent Beyond Compare!With huge sets, rousing scenes and a versatile throng portraying a medieval Paris of cutthroats, clergy, beggars and nobles. ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ [1939] remains one of Hollywood’s all-time grandest spectacles.Charles Laughton endured a daily five-and-a-half-hour makeup session to become Quasimodo, the mocked and vilified bell ringer of Notre Dame. The result was one of his best performances: outsized yet nuanced, heartrending yet inspiring. Maureen O'Hara is the gypsy Esmeralda, whose simple act of pity frees the emotions within him. When she is wrongly condemned, he rescues her from hanging, sweeping all of Paris into a fight for justice.FILM FACT: Award Nominations: Academy Award® for Best Original Music Score for Alfred Newman. Academy Award® for Best Sound for John Aalberg. For this production RKO Radio Pictures built on their movie ranch a massive medieval city of Paris and Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the largest and most extravagant sets ever constructed. The characters of Claude Frollo and Jehan Frollo are changed as in the 1923 film: instead of being the bad archdeacon as in the novel. The only difference in this film is that Claude is portrayed as an archbishop and Jehan Frollo is portrayed as a judge.Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal, Walter Hampden, Harry Davenport, Katharine Alexander, George Zucco, Fritz Leiber, Etienne Girardot, Helene Whitney, Mina Gombell, Arthur Hohl, Curt Bois, George Tobias, Rod La Rocque, Spencer Charters, Kathryn Adams, Dianne Hunter and Sig ArnoDirector: William DieterleProducer: Pandro S. BermanScreenplay: Bruno Frank and Sonya LevienComposer: Alfred NewmanCinematography: Joseph H. AugustVideo Resolution: 1080p [Black-and-White]Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1Audio: English: 1.0 DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, German: 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono and Spanish [Latin]: 1.0 Dolby Digital MonoSubtitles: English SDH, French, German SDH, Spanish [Castilian], Spanish [Latin] and GermanRunning Time: 117 minutesRegion: Region A/1Number of discs: 1Studio: Warner Home Video / RKO Radio PicturesAndrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ is the American dramatic film, released in 1939, that is widely regarded as the finest adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the same name. It featured Charles Laughton in one of his most acclaimed roles. With his hunched back and deformed face, Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo's novel “The Hunch Back of Notre Dame,” has always been considered a mythical creation drawn from the depths of the author's imagination.Charles Laughton portrayed an unlikely hero: the kind, misunderstood, and pitiable hunchback Quasimodo, the bell ringer at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful Rom (gypsy) named Esmeralda (played by Maureen O’Hara). However, Quasimodo’s adoptive father figure, the sexually repressed Claude Frollo [Sir Cedric Hardwicke], is determined to destroy the girl. After she falls in love with the soldier Phoebus [Alan Marshal], the increasingly unstable Claude Frollo murders him. He then frames Esmeralda for the crime, and she is tried and sentenced to death. As she is being taken to the gallows, Quasimodo rescues her, and the two find sanctuary in the cathedral. Claude Frollo, however, is determined to see Esmeralda killed, and during a struggle Quasimodo throws him off the bell tower.‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ [1939] was RKO Studio's last release of the 1930s. It was also one of the studio's biggest and best films of 1939, the studio's most successful year ever. A sensitive adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” told the story of a deformed bell-ringer whose love for a beautiful gypsy woman amidst the turmoil in France under King Louis XI. The film, made brilliant by massive production design, Alfred Newman's rousing score, beautiful camerawork, and performances to match, was a spectacular hit at the box office, despite being released the same year as ‘Gone With the Wind’ [1939]. The film's biggest asset is of course was Charles Laughton's performance as Quasimodo, still stands today as the most moving interpretation of Victor Hugo's tragic hero.The film adaptation is notably different from the novel. Although Claude Frollo is an archdeacon in Hugo’s book, filmmakers, worried that a negative portrayal of the clergy would run afoul of the Hays Production Code, made the character a chief justice. In addition, the movie’s happy ending is in sharp contrast to the novel, in which both Quasimodo and Esmeralda die. Despite such changes, the film received numerous accolades. Charles Laughton’s legendary costume and makeup, which took hours to put on every day and was hot and uncomfortable to wear, was kept a secret until the film premiered. His appearance shocked audiences and helped make the performance one of the most indelible of Charles Laughton’s career.The daunting task of translating Victor Hugo's literary masterpiece into a classic film that was entrusted to Sonya Levien, who was able to make the story relevant to contemporary times, particularly in the way she drew an obvious parallel between the persecuted gypsies of Paris and the treatment of Jews in pre-World War II Germany. The Russian-born Sonya Levien grew up in the United States, and began her prolific career by becoming a magazine editor and then a writer. After several pieces of her fiction were adapted for the screen in the early 1920s, Sonya Levien became an active screenwriter. She wrote many screenplays during the thirties, culminating with a script for ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ [1939], based on an adaptation by Bruno Frank. Sonya Levien earned many accolades during her long screenwriting career, including an Academy Award® in 1955 for Interrupted Melody. But it was the Screen Writers Guild (now known as the Writers Guild of America) that bestowed perhaps her most distinguished award.For Sonya Levien's adaptation of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ more than $2 million was spent on the production. It marked the screen debut of Maureen O'Hara [Esmeralda] and the recreation of Paris was built on a vast set in the San Fernando Valley. The famous Hunchback makeup, designed by Perc Westmore, took months to evolve due to Charles Laughton's sense of perfectionism and the actor also insisted that his hump have ample weight to which Westmore replied, “Why doncha just act it?” This comment made the temperamental Charles Laughton explode, shouting, “Don't you ever speak to me like that again, you hired hand!” The meticulous attention to detail and the long hours filming under the hot summer sun eventually paid off for Laughton because his performance was universally praised. Regarding the powerful scene when the Hunchback of Notre Dame is being punished on the wheel, his director, William Dieterle said, "when Laughton acted that scene, enduring the terrible torture, he was not the poor crippled creature expecting compassion from the mob, but rather oppressed and enslaved mankind, suffering the most awful injustice."The Charles Laughton version, directed by Wiliam Dieterle, is a masterpiece. Even worth highlighting for your attention here. A classic film that looks like it actually might have had a cast of thousands. The plot still holds surprises, including some a sublimated sexual undercurrent, as Esmeralda gets caught in a love quadrangle (she's that popular!). There's a superb cast, particularly the treacherous Claude Frollo, exceptionally played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke [‘The Ghost of Frankenstein’ and ‘Rope’]. Full honours have to go to the astounding performance by Charles Laughton [‘Night of the Hunter’ and ‘The Old Dark House’], in a flawless make-up. Charles Laughton plays Quasimodo deaf and dumb, struggling to communicate with everyone around him. Impressively he still acts up a storm without the power of clear speech and under a ton of make-up. The actor is almost completely unrecognisable, in a role reminiscent of John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's ‘The Elephant Man’ [1980].Blu-ray Video Quality – Warner Home Video facility has created a new transfer for this release, using the original 1.37:1 aspect ratio nitrate camera negative and that several portions of the negative had deteriorated past the point where restoration was possible and for those sections of the film, a second-generation source was used. The 1080p encoded image on this Blu-ray is the jewel in the crown. The elaborate Festival of Fools where Esmeralda dances and Quasimodo is "crowned" are stunning in their clarity, and the night scenes where Quasimodo chases Esmeralda through the streets of Paris feature deep blacks and precise shadows. Contrast and delineations of grey are excellent throughout. The grain pattern is fine, natural and film-like. Of the new 1939 titles that might get released eventually, this is the only one that Warner Home Video has mastered. This is the approach usually taken by the Warner Archive Collection, and one can only hope that it is a sign of things to come, because the results are excellent.Blu-ray Audio Quality – ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ original mono soundtrack is encoded as 1.0 DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, and is really excellent. The sounds of Paris street life, the printer's shop, the halls of justice, the beggars' convention, Quasimodo's hideous public whipping and, most important, the clang of his sonorous "friends" in the bells in the tower, are effectively reproduced, even if the dynamic range doesn't have the breadth of a contemporary recording. Alfred Newman's classical score lends a kind of melodramatic dignity to the proceedings. All in all a great effort has been produced by Warner Home Video.Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:RKO Radio Pictures Vintage Feature: Interview with Maureen O'Hara [480i] [4:3] [12:08] The title of this piece is a bit of a strange. While comments from the Irish actress with Maureen O'Hara are indeed sprinkled throughout this piece, it's really a straightforward retrospective feature interview in which interesting facts are offset by the occasional unknown narrator. Ms. Maureen O'Hara praises the work of Charles Laughton and director William Dieterle, but also recalls her stressful audition for the role of Esmeralda, the magnificent sets built on the RKO Ranch that meticulously recreated medieval Paris, and how she performed her own stunts in the film, a few of which were quite dangerous. We also learn how Charles Laughton transformed himself into Quasimodo and how William Dieterle managed hundreds of extras in this informative look back at an epic production. To me this looked slightly short of its original interview and I am sure there was some time ago a longer filmed interview.Vintage M-G-M Academy Award® Winning Nominated B/W Short: Drunk Driving [1939] [480i] [4:3] [21.36] In this “Crime Does Not Pay” series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home. The hazards of drinking and driving are displayed through the retelling of a real life case, where the names have been changed to protect the innocent. "John Jones" has just received an unexpected promotion at work. To celebrate, he and a colleague go out for a few drinks. On his way home from the celebration, Jones is the cause of a fender bender. Despite taking the blame for the accident and getting fined for drinking and driving, Jones does not connect the accident with his drinking. Because he doesn't see the connection, he continues to drink and drive. Cast: Dick Purcell, Jo Ann Sayers, Richard Lane, Granville Bates, Edgar Dearing, John Dilson, Sarah Edwards, Harrison Greene, Robert Middlemass, Lee Phelps, William Tannen, Phillip Trent and Eddy Waller. Director: David Miller. Producer: Jack Chertok. Cinematography: Paul Vogel.Vintage Warner Bros. Cartoon: The Lone Stranger and Porky [1939] [480i] [4:3] [7:24] The Lone Stranger is sleeping when his faithful, if overly caricatured, Indian scout sees stagecoach driver Porky being robbed by a bad guy. The scout summons the Lone Stranger, who rides to the rescue. The bad guy goes after him (and, briefly, the narrator). But just in the nick of time, the Lone Stranger recovers and conquers the bad guy. Meanwhile, Silver and the villain's horse have been having their own close encounter, and Silver returns with several little colts. Voice Cast: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig and Danny Webb. Composer: Carl W. Stalling.Theatrical Trailer [1939] [480i] [4:3] 1:48] This is the original trailer, that shows you why ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ was a great Hollywood Classic Film.Finally, this 1939 release of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ is definitely the best version by far, and especially on this Blu-ray from Warner Home Video and for the most part looks very impressive. This 117 minutes film is transferred to a dual-layered disc with a very high bitrate. The image quality shows some minor grain, but I would say contrast, a function of detail, is the most pleasing attribute of the 1080p encoded image transfer. It is very clean with a modicum of waxy softness that does not seem inconsistent with a strong replication of the original film. Daylight scenes are striking in their high level of sharpness and the darker scenes later in the film show no noise at all. Maureen O'Hara's Esmeralda is as enchanting as I have ever seen her! This Blu-ray is artefact-free and provides a truly amazing video presentation for this wonderful film! It's a memorable Hollywood Classic Film that never tarnishes with age! Highly Recommended!Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film FanLe Cinema ParadisoWARE, United Kingdom

Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) has been the subject of at least a dozen Hollywood film adaptations over the years from the first silent version in 1905 right up to an animated Disney version in 1996. But of all the film versions of this famous story, two stand out: the Lon Chaney Universal silent from 1923 and the Charles Laughton RKO sound version from 1939. Warner's(which owns the RKO catalog) has finally brought the latter film to Blu-ray and the results are simply stunning. Those who own the VHS or standard DVD of this great film may want to donate them to their local library because this new Blu-ray puts those inferior versions to shame. Sourced from the original camera negative, Warner's has given the film a high Bitrate(32.90) which makes for a pristine video and one of the best Blu-ray releases this year. RKO studios and producer Pandro S. Berman spared no expense(almost two million dollars) in bringing their version of Hugo's classic story to the screen and the results are not only impressive but even more so now on Blu-ray. Recreating 15th Century Paris on 15 acres of the RKO back lot in the San Fernando Valley, the set designs are so vivid that you actually feel like you're in the streets with the crowds or viewing the whole city of Paris with Quasimodo from the top of Notre Dame cathedral. It's that cathedral where most of the story and action is centered around and the RKO set designers outdid themselves with a nearly exact replica of the famous landmark. Warner's new Blu-ray is so clear that individual crowd members are clearly visible whenever they interact with the main actors. Detail is very strong with shops, buildings, carts, animals, props and costumes being especially vivid now on Blu-ray compared to the standard DVD. Image stability, which was a problem with the standard DVD has been corrected and cleaned up(by MPI) and fans of the film will be more than pleased. There are no vertical lines, dirt, torn or damaged frames that were problems with previous video versions of the film. The cinematography by Joseph H. August is eye popping with blacks, whites and grays being evenly balanced. Close-ups are especially detailed, so much so that you can feel all the suffering in Laughton's face whenever his Quasimodo character is on the screen. Director William Dieterle was born in Germany and was heavily influenced by the expressionistic style of the time and he makes great use of it. This is very apparent in the many nighttime scenes where shadows and light are prominent and make many of those scenes feel more authentic. . All the acting is top notch, with star Charles Laughton giving one of his greatest and most memorable performances as Quasimodo, the deformed and deaf bell ringer of Notre Dame. At first bullied, ridiculed, and jeered by the crowds, Laughton brings great sympathy and sorrow to Quasimodo that will stay with you long after the film is over. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis said of Laughton: "He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time". He gets great support from Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda in her American film debut. Only 19 at the time, her beauty is another highlight of the film. Her features are so stunning on Blu-ray that viewers will not be able to take their eyes off her. The rest of the supporting cast is equally impressive including Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien and Walter Hampton who give solid performances. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is 117 minutes(Aspect ratio: 1.37:1) and contains the following subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish. The Audio(English DTS-HD MA mono with Spanish in Dolby Digital mono) is crystal clear and free of any noise artifacts(hiss, pop, etc.) Special features include an interview with Maureen O'Hara, a short subject titled "Drunk Driving", a WB cartoon and the original theatrical trailer. The Blu-ray disk itself is housed in an eco-cutout case so anyone purchasing this new title may want to switch to a more solid Blu-ray case for added protection. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is one of the great films from Hollywood's golden era and should be an essential part of any home film library now that it is finally out on Blu-ray. Warner's has outdone themselves with this one and it comes very, very highly recommended.

I first saw this film on TV when I was a teen, and it blew me away, mostly because of the vision of medieval Paris, but also because of Charles Laughton's amazing performance as the Hunchback. I had read the novel years earlier when I was in Grade 7, and it is a good deal bloodier and more doom-laden than the movie version, which (of course) has a happy ending. The photography, the editing – much more rapid than the norm for movies of the period, and using mostly straight cuts rather than fades and dissolves – the music and the performances, are all top notch. Though on the latter, you have to be prepared to accept a certain stagey quality, which was also "normal" for the period. But not Laughton's performance. In many cases it is quite subdued and realistic, something which makes it stand out against the others. And if you compare this to Laughton's performance in 1932's "Island of Lost Souls," or his scenery-chewing in 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty." In short, well worth a viewing, and as noted, the vast outdoor set of Paris is phenomenal.

This classic film is packed with lessons but, unfortunately, many of them are not pleasant.People can be cruel, especially to those who are physically different. Quasimodo is physically deformed and deaf as a result of his job as a bell ringer. People treat him abominably and feel justified in doing so because he is different. It seems that since God played a trick on him by making him the way he is, everyone else is fine with joining in with the mockery.People are cruel to those who are ethnically different. Esmeralda is a gypsy and here people face a policy of official oppression from the government. The common people tolerate it and gleefully participate because the gypsies are different and because they can.Nothing will screw up you life more than falling in love. Everyone is in love with the beautiful Esmeralda. The chief magistrate loves her. The captain of the guard loves her. The poor philosopher loves her. Most cruel of all, Quasimodo loves her. The facts of their love make things difficult for each of them and for Esmeralda as well. No one is safe from this curse.There is little that is more cruel that to be in love and not be loved in return. The truth of this is self evident. The film brings it out in all its terrible reality.The story is fairly simple. A gypsy girl, Esmeralda, comes into Paris and faces problems because she is a gypsy. She has an easier time of it because she is so beautiful. Quasimodo, the misshapen bell ringer of Notre Dame experiences first her horror at his appearance and then her kindness as he is punished for frightening her. Quasimodo's ward is driven to murder because he loves Esmeralda and she loves the captain, the victim of the murder. The poor itinerant philosopher loves her because she is beautiful and because he really does love her. There is plenty of tragedy to go around.Charles Laughton plays the title role in a sympathetic manner that is impossible to forget. Maureen O'Hara plays Esmeralda; she really was a great beauty in her day.This classic is worth watching. It is captivating and engrossing. It is also painful.

Película excelente, en blanco y negro. En idioma español e inglés con subtítulos también.

Das ist die dritte Verfilmung zu "Der Glöckner von Notre Dame" die ich sehe. Natürlich blieb mir bisher Anthony Quinn als Quasimodo in bleibender Erinnerung, aber auch Charles Laughton beeindruckt mich. Die Adaption dieses Film ist gut gelungen. Natürlich stelle ich Vergleiche mit der Verfilmung mit Anthony Quinn an. Aber genauso wie die Verfilmung mit Anthony Quinn gefällt mir auch dieser Film. Ich möchte keinen dieser Filme bevorzugen. Ich finde Sie beide ausgezeichnet.

So we very much disliked that we had to sent the dvd back to you. We had been very exclited about receiving it. Please staff, take note if something you are sending is NOT able to be watched outside of the US and Canada.

Outstanding film and picture quality.

meno interessante nella prima parte scontato il finale superbo Charles Laughton bellissima Maureen O'Hara. Consigliabile a chi paice il b/n