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  • This, personaly, is my favorite film version

  • @SuperAmazingsinger

    As far as I know, there are three movies and one book to this story.

  • how many different versions of this book/movie are there?

  • this is such a good story!

  • i'm related to Charles Laughton :P

  • It's not round, it's flat~! LOL I just love how he's mumbling that during the whole conversation.

  • most easily turned crowd ever. lol

  • Ireland,s very own Maureen O' Hara was 18 in this film and is still alive today at 91 years of age!!

  • it isn't "The Hunchback " of Notre Dame" it's "Frollo" of Notre Dame!

  • Why does my screen go black when I try to view this full screen???

  • Its flat!

  • Thank god this film is so old that WMG won´t come hear and disable the sound or do some other bullshit!

  • E S M E R A L D A :P

  • epic acting by charles, incredible for its time, genius on show here

  • Something so timeless about most old movies!

  • I watched it with home television and, in the days of a primary

    schoolchild, was very impressive. I can appreciate a good old

    movie and feel very glad. Thank you very much. (2011.03.03) 

  • The 1923 film, and this one don't have sound, they're both silent films.

  • @bloodshotclam ??? this one is not silent!

  • @HugosNotreDame Dude has his volume off.

  • @bloodshotclam Replace the batteries in your hearing aid.

  • I've only taken a glimpse at other versions, because this one is so captivating.

  • gonna party like its 1499

  • an RKO radio picture lol

  • Fools day, THE BEST PARTY KNOWN THAT ROCKED THE WORLD

  • maureen ohara .. one of the most beautiful ladies of all time...

  • Love this movie and all other hunchback of notre dame versions! :3 Frollo's portrayed really great in this, along with all the others :D

    Their planning on remaking this classic tale in the next two years!

    I was so excited when I heard, you know, a knew Frollo, a new Esmeralda dance, a new heart breaking story...

    and then I learned it was planned to be an 'action and adventure' tale along the lines of "Pirates of the Caribbean"

    Guess I'm not getting a front row seat on opening night anymore -__-

  • @XxM00nSHADExX hi! I found your comment interesting! Where did you here that they are remaking it? I looked and couldn't find anything....i'm a big fan of this story.... =) anyhoo i hope they don't make it too action or change the story into a pirates...

  • lol i love the old man in the background. Its flate!

  • In medieval times, what types of plays were morality plays?

  • I was reading the HBoND to my Nana because the text is too small for her eyes and she can't really read well and she asked me what versions I'd seen. She told me about this one. She said it was one of the first films she ever saw and how terrified she was of Quasimodo and Frollo.

  • I was reading the HBoND to my Nana because the text is too small for her eyes and she can't really read and she asked me what versions I'd seen. She told me about this one. She said it was one of the first films she ever saw and how terrified she was of Quasimodo and Frollo.

  • i believe Maureen O'Hara to be the most underrated of the great Hollywood actresses, nice to look at, great range, wonderful emotion. she could do period, contemporary, comedy or drama, she could be poor helpless Esmeralda or she could go toe to toe with the Duke himself. she could also sword fight and be the action hero(ine) in films like Jamaica Inn and at Swords Point saomething not many actresses didk in the 30's 40's or 50's or the good ole romance as in Miracle on 34th street et. all

  • And of cooooourse: at that time, they would die before to make Esmeralda with dark skin, wouldn't they? And they want to sham that they are comprehensive!

  • 5:45 cool hat

  • I'm a 90's kid. I'm 19 now. My first hunchback viewing was the 1996 disney one, which I love. But I'm very curious to compare to this classic one. My ten year old sister and I kept wondering if there really was a hunchback, all to find out it was a fictional novel. Funny how the author's name is Victor Hugo and in the disney one, they named one gargoyale hugo and the other victor.

  • I loved this movie. Charles Laughton is brilliant.

  • Best Version of the story!

  • its that Antonio Hopkins!

  • this version is very good :)

  • Thank u for uploading this on here. It has been a long time since I have seen this movie. I like this movie. But in the end were the chefe of the gipsees and ine if the nons talk to eachother I can't understand what they say. It sounded like old english but the rest is great.=)

  • i watched this movie wen i was a kid thanks for the upload couldnt find this anywhere.....

  • maureen oharas debut . she was only 19 in this classic. cedrid hardwick and charles laughton were brilliant in this i think the best of the hunchback of notre dame movies.

  • The finest version of Hugo's novel. Laughton is the definative Quasimodo. My favorite is Cedric Hardwicke's Frollo.  He gave the part humanity, instead of being a cardboard cut-out villian.

  • Quasimodo talked to the bells and rang them daily but in return, they busted his ear drums. :( Poor Quasi!

  • Hahahaha, poor Gringoire!

  • Thankyou so much for this. Really.

  • Masterpiece !

  • they should have released this move for it's 70th anniversary on DVD last year

  • Cedric Hardwicke's son played Dr Watson in the second ITV series of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. You can see the facial similarity.

  • holy shit! yeah!

  • Considering the amount of latex on his face & mouth & having the use of only one eye, Laughton did an amazing job of conveying emotion with his face. He certainly didn't have any stirring speeches to convey emotion.

  • Esmerelda is so beautiful! <3

  • Know exactly what you mean! He is an intellectual baddie, serious and intense!

  • Best version... Powerful performances by Charles Laughton and Cedric Hardwicke especially.

  • Great

  • frollo is hot in this movie! in the disney movie, he`s okay.

  • Looks like the Renaissance Fair!

  • frollo <3

  • can i just say thank you so much to this user for providing us with so many wonderful adaptations of this fantastic novel. i doubt anyone would be able to find all of them anywhere else so thank you very much HugosNotreDame^^

  • oooh! guy at 8:02 is hooott :)

  • mmmmmm yummy

  • he`s werid!

  • whoa i never knew this existed as a black/white movie this is great^^

  • yh it was originally black and white. as with most of his films disney just sugar coated the true story of the hunchback of notre dame. i actually read pats of the original book and i was shocked at how adult it was compared to the story disney had presented. it was an incrediably sad story as well, but dispite the fact that it is more adult and a lot more morbid i perfer the original tale rather than the sugar coated version^^

  • Actually, this version isn't that loyal to the novel, either. Quasimodo and Esmeralda do not die in this film. Also they've changed Frollo considerably - in the book he is depicted as a sympathetic, soulful archdeacon who values knowledge (in addition to his severity and lust for Esmeralda). I actually enjoyed the Disney version.

  • i know its not loyal, never said it was loyal, i've seen most versions and only one of them has been anywhere near faithful to the book. and iff you enjoyed the disney version thats fine, so did i, all i was saying is that disney does sugar coat stories and i prefer originals so really, it depends on your own taste.

  • I totally agree. I love this version. It shows the hypocrosy and cruelty that man imposes on itself. The lust , and benign prejudice , and coruption.

  • very true. its such a powerful story ,also for me the original story is one of a kind because not only is the sotry completely different to any other at the time it was written or in the present day , but the story of frodo and esmeralda is probably a first as well. i don't think many books during those days was portray lust and obsession in such a powerful way. its a true classic^^

  • o_O

    Frodo and Esmeralda... gotta love those two

  • yh lol^^

  • Frodo?

  • Frollo

  • @twolionss Frollo, twolionss! XD It's me Gothika Faerie.

  • who's the author?

  • Victor Hugo.

  • 1 of the all time best Hunchback of Notre Dame ever !!!!! amazing and Maureen O'Hara is breath taking in it :D

  • Coplin is the secks.

  • Thanks so much for uploading this!

  • Even in 1939 they found room for anti christian slogans. The first book ever from the printing press was the Bible! Before that, monks had to spend years writing or copying one book. It was also expensive. Before that almost everyone rich and poor even Kings and priests were illiterate.

    There were atheists humanists that did use the press, but they were also used for the spread of Christian faith! After Voltaire died, his press was used by the church to publish books in defense of religion

  • Where do you see an anti-christian message? When the Clopin refers to the Cathedral as "a monument of the past" he still regards it as beautiful.

    He only means that the printing press will preserve history and Christianity in ways more accesable to the people. (Cathedrals like Notre Dame took centuries to build).

  • Frodo calls for destroying the printing press and considers books to be a danger to the faith. The truth is that while there were suppresion against books promoting atheism and attacking religion, the printing press was a blessing to Christianity and flourished because of it.

  • wish it was in colour but it's great

  • This is the best film version of Hunchback.

  • Thank you so much. Charles Laughton was simply superb in his role as Quasimodo.

  • what a great movie

  • 1939 was the best year for movies EVER!

    wizard of oz

    gone with the wind

    wuthering heights

    mr. smith goes to washington...

  • Goodbye Mr. Chips

  • If this was remade in 2008, who would you cast in the lead roles?

    I think that either Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons would be great for Frollo (although they are both a bit too old).

  • Jeremy Irons...

  • yea fo sho Jeremy Irons

  • jaime bcq ce film aussi

  • What great acting is about.

  • to much mention of famous people most people didn't even know about back then like the printing press and Christopher Columbus though.

  • now thats a feast of fools!

  • Thank you so much for all these!!

  • charles laughton was an amazing actor who could turn his hand to any role.

  • omg! whatttttt? I had no idea this existed lol

  • Thomas Mitchell played 3 different parts in this picture, I've always wondered why?

  • It's flat.

    It isn't round, it's flat.

  • Why are they hated gypsy like back far a 18th century?

  • take a look at the united states immagration issues of today and youll have your answer

  • Immigration issues?

    In here, there are a lot of people came from almost all of continent. But as far I know, gypsy are native in French.

    So, I don't quite understand why you said I have to know about the immigration issues in here.

  • from what i understand gypsies are a nomadic people and settled wherever they could all over europe.if you look at the film in the beginning a gypsy is being turned away at the gates of paris and says you came yesterday we come today.so perhaps they were native to france but not paris.its still immagration just not country to country.

  • Thanks...I'm really appreciate your explanation.

  • actually the gypsies were a race of people kicked out off their homeland which was somewhere in eastern Europe near Hungary sometime around 1000 AD and wandered Europe as nomads.

  • Oh my gosh, thank you so so so so soooo much for this. I've wanted to watch this for the longest time, but it was never on TV and I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm a huge fan of the Disney version (Even though it's really different, I still love it) and the book. It's amazing. :]

  • Oh man. Best part of this video is the old dude at 7:03!

  • cheers for posting. wanted to see this for awhile.

  • hey, thanks for posting the '82 version, i really enjoyed it! thanks!!!

  • does anybody out there own the 1982 version of this all time classic? if anyone does, please put it up here for everyone to see!

  • I love this version - thank you! :D

  • in the 5:10 -3= 5:07 is the biggest one. is´nt it?

  • The time of this novel is actually 1465 during the fourth year of the reign of Louis the Eleventh. He was historically labeled with the monaker of 'Louis, the cruel'.

  • It's 1482

  • May we inquire what your source is for this information? Louis the Eleventh did reign until his death in 1483 but we were taught from the book that the story occurred when the printing press had just newly been invented-- around 1450. Thirty two years after the fact seems a bit contrary to our understanding of the time period. However the film's writers may have advanced the time some. After all they saved Esmerelda from being hanged.

  • Hugo's novel. In the first chapter ("La Grand'Salle") author tells us it's January 6th 1482. And in "Mariage de Phoebus" (end of the book)- that Louis XI died one year later, in 1483. I do not know if they changed something in the film (ex. the 1996 film - the one with Salma Hayek - is set few years later and we see Louis XII).

  • Well that is memory for you! I read the novel in high school (shortly after the book was published, hahahaha)and just didn't recall the date being given. I do remember how gruesomely Hugo described the hanging of the gypsy. That I never forgot. Thank for correcting me.

  • Am I the only one who LOL'd at the random guy who kept saying "The world isn't round, it's flat." I couldn't help but to LOL! XDD

  • Christoher Columbus disn't exist on their time (the king was talking about him).

  • I am sorry? If you are talking abt the movie the time of the movie, yes it is indeed the time of Chris Columbus

  • Dammit, now I feel slow. I had no idea anybody posted this until now. -_-

    Thankies for posting, by the way.

  • A great film one of my favs, Charles Laughton at his brilliant best.

    Thanks for uploading.

  • Thank you so much for uploading! It will take me a while to watch everything, I'll probably finish later.

  • the king and the doctor are the funnyest characters in the movie. see the bathing scene!

  • they all thought like this, still there were 2 men who put their views to practice: lenin in the E and hitler in the W. the result?... an amputated, brain washed, sad and lonely Quasimodo.

  • pls pay atention to the ideas present in the vid: it's typical for the interbellic period (well in 1939 the ww2 bearly started), they thought, poor souls they must crush the past in order to create a new radient future. it's the spirit of the age. "let's create the new man, no more interrest in the stupid past!"

  • Yes, you are right.

  • glad you agree with me. thanks.

  • this is the first time i see this film, back then in '96 i went bonkers for the animated version of the film, but when i heard of the '39 version, i wanted to see but couldn't. this is really great, wonderful!

  • I LOVE Maureen O'Hara! I have never seen this whole movie. I know the story and I've seen the end about a million times, but never the whole thing. Thanks for posting!

  • Dude, I am excited as shit to watch this. I just finished watching your 1923 clips and now I get to watch the Charles Laughton version for the first time ever!!! At this rate I won't be in bed until 5:00 in the morning! Screw it, it's summer! I can sleep in as late as I want!!!

  • i like both this and the Disney version of this.

  • A lot more faithfully to the book than the Disney version!

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