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"Hallmark Hall of Fame" The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
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Original Air Date:
4 February 1982
(Season 31, Episode 2)
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Evil Is The Eye Of The Beholder
Plot:
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda...
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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Almost completely like the novel.
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Quasimodo | |
| Derek Jacobi | ... | Dom Claude Frollo | |
| David Suchet | ... | Clopin Trouillefou | |
| Gerry Sundquist | ... | Pierre Gringoire | |
| Tim Pigott-Smith | ... | Philippe | |
| John Gielgud | ... | Charmolue | |
| Robert Powell | ... | Phoebus | |
| Lesley-Anne Down | ... | Esmeralda | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... | Magistrate at Esmeralda's trial | |
| Roland Culver | ... | Bishop of Paris | |
| Rosalie Crutchley | ... | Simone | |
| David Kelly | ... | Tavernkeeper | |
| Joseph Blatchley | ... | Albert | |
| Dave Hill | ... | Coppenhole | |
| Donald Eccles | ... | Judge |
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Hunchback (USA) (video title)
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150 min | USA:102 min | UK:98 min
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Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi both played Adolf Hitler ( The Bunker (1981) (TV) and Inside the Third Reich (1982) (TV)) and Claudius ( Hamlet (1969) and Hamlet (1996) ) in two different version of Hamlet films.
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Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#36.13)" (2006)
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This movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is superbly similar to the Hugo novel. Quasimodo looks exactly like it's told in the book, he is almost deaf, and in this movie we see yet another "little Esmeralda", who reminds us of the dancer in the Dieterle version.
I was quite surprised that even Frollo is rather good to Quasimodo - just like in the novel - but when he already at the beginning started to show his passion for Esmeralda, I knew that he is just like he must be. Honestly, I couldn't only hate him because he later seemed to be quite unhappy of being "bewitched" and that Esmeralda refused to answer to his feelings.
I was especially shocked that the film had even the torture scene of Esmeralda. Captain Phoebus, too, was surprisingly similar to the character of the book, and it was good that Gringoire tried to warn Esmeralda about him. It was also really moving to hear Quasimodo talk about his own ugliness.
The only thing I was a little disappointed in was the end; although it doesn't belong to the novel, I had started to hope that Esmeralda could see the truth about Quasimodo.