The hunchback of Notre Dame
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Lon Chaney as Quasimodo looks as if he had just stepped out from the original illustrations of Victor Hugo's novel. The sets depicting fifteenth-century Paris covered nineteen acres of Universal Pictures' back lot and included the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Filming took six months and the climactic sequence employed 2000 extras, but it's Lon Chaney's performance that makes the character unforgettable. Mastered from a multi-tinted 16mm print struck in 1926 from the original camera negative.
Credits
- Cast
- Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Patsy Ruth Miller, Kate Lester; Wallace Worsley (film director); Irving G. Thalberg (producer); Perley Poore Sheehan (screenwriter); Lowe, Edward T. (Edward Thomas) (screenwriter); Carl Laemmle (producer); Lon Chaney (actor); Norman Kerry (actor); Patsy Ruth Miller (actor); Kate Lester (actor); Robert Newhard (director of photography); Sydney Singerman (editor of moving image work); Edward. Curtiss (editor of moving image work); Maurice Pivar (editor of moving image work); Donald Hunsberger (composer (expression)); Blake, Michael F. (Michael Francis), 1957- commentator (writer of added commentary); Victor Hugo
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Alas and Alack.
Original source: Accompanying booklet contains essay by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake. | Based on the novel by Victor Hugo. | Originally produced in 1923. | Special features: optional audio commentary by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake, rare footage of Chaney out of makeup on the Cathedral set, a 1915 film: Alas and Alack, in which Chaney plays a hunchback, photo gallery, digital reproduction of the original souvenir program. | Photography, Robert Newhard ; editors, Sydney Singerman, Maurice Pivar, Edward Curtis ; new score, Donald Hunsberger ; conductor, Robert Israel.
Release: Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (11 pages ; 17 cm) | plastic | 4 3/4 in. | monochrome | video file | Blu-ray | regions A B C
Edition: Deluxe blu-ray edition.
Subjects: Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) -- Drama | Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) | Quasimodo (Fictitious character) -- Drama | Quasimodo (Fictitious character)
Country: United States
Language note: Silent dialogue; English subtitles.
Related works: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Notre-Dame de Paris.
Ucla location: NON-CIRCULATING RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTER COPY | DVD12684
Original source: Accompanying booklet contains essay by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake. | Based on the novel by Victor Hugo. | Originally produced in 1923. | Special features: optional audio commentary by Chaney scholar Michael F. Blake, rare footage of Chaney out of makeup on the Cathedral set, a 1915 film: Alas and Alack, in which Chaney plays a hunchback, photo gallery, digital reproduction of the original souvenir program. | Photography, Robert Newhard ; editors, Sydney Singerman, Maurice Pivar, Edward Curtis ; new score, Donald Hunsberger ; conductor, Robert Israel.
Release: Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (11 pages ; 17 cm) | plastic | 4 3/4 in. | monochrome | video file | Blu-ray | regions A B C
Edition: Deluxe blu-ray edition.
Subjects: Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) -- Drama | Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) | Quasimodo (Fictitious character) -- Drama | Quasimodo (Fictitious character)
Country: United States
Language note: Silent dialogue; English subtitles.
Related works: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Notre-Dame de Paris.
Ucla location: NON-CIRCULATING RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTER COPY | DVD12684
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Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:08