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killer meteor		#61	[-]
Nov 2 08 1:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What do any historians here think of the film's portrayal of Louis XI here? Compare to the pampered snob of the 1923 version, here he's awfully progressive in his thoughts, kind and is more than happy for common folk to read books and get ideas!
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Tanko		#62	[-]
Nov 3 08 10:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	RE: Laughton..Agreed, It was a masterpiece performance,,hardly possible to re create today with the actors on board,,Much value has been lost in the media on true acting qualtiy such as laughton's..
operaghost	Recycling Soundtracks	#63	[-]
Nov 3 08 12:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It is interesting to hear snatches of Newman's Hunchback score turning up in It's A Wonderful Life, The music Newman composed for the scene where Quasimodo first tries to abduct Esmarelda is used practically note for note in The Robe. It shows up in modified form in Prince of Foxes. His "Hallelujah" evolves through Song of Bernadette and The Robe. Alfred Newman was never one to let a good theme go to waste, and his scoring was usually brilliant. Eric
operaghost		#64	[-]
Nov 3 08 12:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	VarneyVampire wrote: Hardwick: I don't think it was in his capacity to play a good person at all! Actually Hardwick played many excellent "good guys" such as Alan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, an intrepid British explorer in Five Weeks In A Balloon and a sympathetic Pharaoh Seti in De Mille's The Ten Commandments (which also offered George Zucco in a small role). Eric
lencandraw		#65	[-]
Nov 16 08 6:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In response to Killer's question, Louis's portrayal is rather progressive! Quite different from the "keep-em-dumb" type of monarch. My other response to this film: As much as I wanna laud my favorite monster film, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, I have to say that HUNCHBACK is probably the best film of 1939, monster or otherwise! Quite a treasure!
Monsterpal		#66	[-]
Nov 16 08 7:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not a historian, but I've read that Louis was a vicious, secretive king, who plotted against his enemies and wasn't beloved by the people at all. His main claim to fame was taking power from the nobles to make himself more powerful, sort of the opposite effect of the Magna Carta signing in Britain. I think the movie's version is pretty much fiction. But hey, how could they have cast Harry Davenport as a bad guy?
Bill Warren	If	#67	[-]
Nov 22 08 2:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you go to that Google site that features all the photos from LIFE magazine and use HUNCHBACK as a search term, you'll get lots of pages--over 33--and some of them have shots of Laughton in makeup as Quasimodo. But you have to look for them.
TomWeaver999		#68	[-]
Nov 22 08 3:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I must be doing something wrong; I get 11 LIFE-HUNCHBACK images, none with Laughton.
Bill Warren		#69	[-]
Nov 22 08 7:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My error. Search by "Quasimodo" or just click on this link: quasimodo - Google Image Search
TomWeaver999		#70	[-]
Nov 23 08 2:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I still can't find any LIFE Laughton-Hunchback shots. Oh well!
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MYST0		#71	[-]
Nov 23 08 2:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watched this last night. Loved it. Laughton has this pathetic deformed body thing going on. I wonder how much body makeup is on him in this. In the flogging scene, it's hard to tell where the real Laughton ends and the make up begins. Let's hope for Elsa's sake, that he didn't look like that in real life! Have not read Hugo in ages, but when the Hunchback states that he is 25, I was stunned. It's hard to imagine Laughton at 25, but it works very well. How old was he in the book?
killer meteor		#72	[-]
Nov 23 08 3:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In my edition, he says "20 martimas"
Bill Warren		#73	[-]
Nov 23 08 3:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I see what happened: I did a search on the LIFE collection on some word that didn't get me a Laughton photo; then i searched again--but Google switched from the LIFE file to their own file, while I thought I was still scouring the LIFE collection. But that link I posted should have taken anyone to a page with a couple of Laughton shots. I was confused because LIFE >did< run a shot of Laughton in Quasimodo makeup--as far as I know, the only American magazine of the time to do so. In the meantime, here are some frame blowups available on the net: http://data1.blog.de/blog...o-20whipped-20closeup.jpg http://filmforno.com/word...loads/2008/03/uglyoz2.jpg I'd like to find on the net a photo of >me< as the Hunchback. They do exist.
MYST0		#74	[-]
Nov 25 08 1:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What is a Martimas? Inquiring minds need to know.
Bill Warren		#75	[-]
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Cadaverino		#76	[-]
Feb 12 10 4:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	killer meteor wrote: In my edition, he says "20 martimas" Who is "he"? Your edition of what? What does "martimas" mean?
horrorfilmx		#77	[-]
Feb 12 10 5:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	operaghost wrote: VarneyVampire wrote: Hardwick: I don't think it was in his capacity to play a good person at all! Actually Hardwick played many excellent "good guys" such as Alan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, an intrepid British explorer in Five Weeks In A Balloon and a sympathetic Pharaoh Seti in De Mille's The Ten Commandments (which also offered George Zucco in a small role). Eric Also as a sympathetic parent in The Winslow Boy.
Coughcool		#78	[-]
Feb 21 10 2:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just watched this version of The Hunchback(39) a few weeks ago for the first time. I enjoyed it very much. I wish they would put more great shows like this on TV.
Mil Mascaras		#79	[-]
Feb 22 10 5:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MYST0 wrote: What is a Martimas? Inquiring minds need to know. Maybe its actually Martinmas, which is a French holiday.
atenolol		#80	[-]
Feb 22 10 7:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	todmichel wrote: In spite of the satinized Hollywoodian ending, it remains one of the best screen adaptations of a Victor Hugo novel, ex-aequo with the best version of "Les misérables", the 1934 three-parts movie directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Harry Baur. And - as written above - who could resist Maureen O'Hara ? certainly not me ! I saw this incredibly beautiful and talentuous Irish girl for the first time in 1952 or 1953 when THE QUIET MAN was released in France, and she became instantaneously my favorite actress - and still is, in fact. I have read the novel and I must say that, while the 1939 movie version might be "sanitized" at least in regards to Esmeralda, the final scene I found more moving than the one in the novel. Last Edited By: atenolol Feb 22 10 7:31 PM. Edited 1 times.
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