The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939 · 117 min · ★ 7.3 / 10 · 227 votes

Drama · Romance · Horror

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.

Cast

Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell · Maureen O'Hara · Edmond O'Brien · Alan Marshal · Walter Hampden · Harry Davenport · Katharine Alexander · George Zucco

Director

William Dieterle