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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1977
Number of Seasons:
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Format: colour
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Cedric Messina

SCRIPT
Script: Robert Muller
Novel: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Cooke

MUSIC
Music: Wilfred Josephs

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Don Taylor

MISCELLANEOUS
Choreographer: Geraldine Stephenson

CAST
Kenneth Haigh (Archdeacon Claude Frollo)
Warren Clarke (Quasimodo)
Michelle Newell (Esmeralda)
Christopher Gable (Pierre)
David Rintoul (Jehan)
Richard Morant (Phoebus)
Hetty Baynes (Fleur-de-Lys)
Ruth Goring (Madame Gondelaurier)
Tony Caunter (Clopin)
Liz Smith (La Falourdel)
John Ratcliff (Robin)
Terence Bayler (Cardinal)
Janet Brandes (Crone)
William Garrity (Jupiter)
Roger Hammond (Lecornu)
Isobil Nisbet (provincial lady)
Diana Payan (Parisian lady)
Bruce Purchase (Provost)
John Savident (Florian)

PLOT SUMMARY

The horribly deformed hunchback Quasimodo lives a lonely existence in the bell tower of Notre Dame's cathedral in Paris. One day he meets the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda and falls hopelessly in love with her, though her affections are for a handsome young soldier. But an angry a mob believe that Esmerelda is a witch and threaten to burn her at the stake – and it's down to the feared and misunderstood Quasimodo to rescue her.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Television Distributor: NBC

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Big Man on Campus (1989)
The Darling of Paris (1917)
Esmeralda (1905)
The Hunchback (1997)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Nanbanji no semushi-otoko (1957)
Notre Dame de Paris (1956)
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)

KEYWORDS

bell ringers, book into film, cathedrals, gypsies, hunchback

 


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