Les Miserables (1952)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Michael Rennie	...	Jean Valjean
	Debra Paget	...	Cosette
	Robert Newton	...	Etienne Javert
	Edmund Gwenn	...	Bishop Courbet
	Sylvia Sidney	...	Fantine
	Cameron Mitchell	...	Marius
	Elsa Lanchester	...	Madame Magloire
	James Robertson Justice	...	Robert
	Joseph Wiseman	...	Genflou
	Rhys Williams	...	Brevet
	Florence Bates	...	Madame Bonnet

Storyline

After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years at hard labor as a galley slave. There he is taught to read and write by another prisoner and meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who was himself born to convict parents aboard a prison ship. After his release, Valjean is treated as a pariah but finally finds shelter in the home of a kindly bishop. Valjean repays the clergyman's generosity by stealing his silver plate. He is apprehended by the authorities and returned to the bishop but is amazed when the kindly old priest tells them that the valuable plates were a gift. This becomes a transforming experience for the ex-convict, who establishes himself under an assumed name in a small country village as factory manager and ultimately mayor. Unfortunately the newly-promoted Javert is assigned there as chief inspector. Although he doesn't recognize his old nemesis at first... Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)  

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