The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977) (TV)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Alan Cooke

Writers:

Victor Hugo (novel)
Robert Muller (writer)

Release Date:

18 July 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The story of a deformed hunchback's love for a Gypsy girl in Paris. |

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Hunchback | Gypsy | Pariah | Cathedral

Cast

Kenneth Haigh	...	Archdeacon Claude Frollo
Warren Clarke	...	Quasimodo
Michelle Newell	...	Esmeralda
Christopher Gable	...	Pierre Gringoire
David Rintoul	...	Jehan
Richard Morant	...	Phoebus
Hetty Baynes	...	Fleur-de-Lys
Ruth Goring	...	Madame Gondelaurier
Tony Caunter	...	Clopin
Liz Smith	...	La Falourdel
John Ratcliff	...	Robin
Terence Bayler	...	Cardinal
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Janet Brandes	...	Crone
William Garrity	...	Jupiter
Roger Hammond	...	Lecornu
Isobil Nisbet	...	Provincial Lady
Diana Payan	...	Parisian Lady
Bruce Purchase	...	Provost
John Savident	...	Florian

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Movie Connections:

Version of "O Corcunda de Notre Dame" (1957)

I've been hoping to see this a second time since 1977

As far as I know, this has only shown on television in the US once (summer of '77), and has never been on video. I remember this TV movie obviously had a much lower budget that the three previous theatrical versions. However, I found it fascinating because it is at least as true to the book as the Anthony Quinn version. Like Victor Hugo's book, it has dark humor mixed with tragedy, and does not seem very concerned about offending the church. They did something similar in the 1982 TV movie with Anthony Hopkins, but that felt like more of an adaptation of the Charles Laughton version than like a new adaptation of the book. The versions I enjoy watching the most are those from 1939 and 1996, but I'll be grateful if anyone can tell me where I can get a copy of this one on DVD or VHS.