"So long as laws shall exist which create hells in the midst of Civilisation, so long as men are degraded, women ruined and children afraid, so long as there shall be ignorance, poverty and wretchedness on this earth, stories such as this one must be told" Victor Hugo. To an extend some of this probably holds true, even today! A great adaptation of Hugo's masterpiece, worth watching. Anthony Perkins possibly a touch miscast.