The Hunchback of Notre Dame poster
Director William Dieterle
Screenplay Sonya Levien

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Tagline: Impact! Power! Fire! Pathos! Drama!

Release Date: 1939-12-29

Duration: 117 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Maureen O'Hara
    Esmeralda
  • Eddie Bracken
    Soldier at Festival of Fools (uncredited)
  • Nestor Paiva
    Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
  • Thomas Mitchell
    Clopin
  • Edmond O'Brien
    Gringoire
  • Charles Laughton
    The Hunchback Quasimodo
  • Cedric Hardwicke
    Frollo
  • Victor Kilian
    Esmeralda's Hangman (uncredited)
  • George Tobias
    Beggar
  • Charlie Hall
    Mercury (uncredited)