The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977)

Directed by

Alan Cooke

Genre

drama, horror, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel. It follows Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, who is in love with the Romani woman Esmeralda. The story involves the desires of the archdeacon Frollo and the social tensions in medieval Paris.

dramaticsomberhistoricalemotionaltragicatmosphericslow-paced

What happens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a British feature length adaptation of the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, produced for television by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in 1976 and aired on December 30 the same year. Directed by Alan Cooke and written by Robert Muller, the film stars Kenneth Haigh as Claude Frollo, Warren Clarke as Quasimodo and Michelle Newell as Esmeralda, and features the visual effects by Ian Scoones and the original music by Wilfred Josephs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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