Movie · 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Released 31 August 1939 117 min Drama / Romance / Horror More from 1939 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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Etienne Girardot
as Doctor
Harry Davenport
as King Louis XI
Lionel Belmore
as Judge at Esmeralda's Trial (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
as Court Clerk
Walter Hampden
as Archdeacon
Fritz Leiber
as Old Nobleman
Tempe Pigott
as Madeleine (uncredited)
George Zucco
as Procurator
Arthur Hohl
as Olivier
Frank Mills
as Beggar (uncredited)
Harry Cording
as Guard (uncredited)
Thomas Mitchell
as Clopin
Minna Gombell
as Queen of Beggars
Cedric Hardwicke
as Frollo
Sig Arno
as Tailor
Charles Laughton
as The Hunchback Quasimodo
Katharine Alexander
as Madame de Lys
Norbert Schiller
as Saturn (uncredited)
Curt Bois
as Student
Nestor Paiva
as Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
Alan Marshal
as Phoebus
Helene Reynolds
as Fleur de Lys
Edmond O'Brien
as Gringoire
Maureen O'Hara
as Esmeralda
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3.8×$2m budget became $7m at the box office
64years between the oldest and youngest billed
83Etienne Girardot — oldest on the call sheet
19Maureen O'Hara — youngest billed
47average age of the credited cast