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Feb 25 10 1:16 PM
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Monsterpal wrote:I agree, Ateneolol, somehow Quasimodo living through all that and seeing Esmeralda happily going off with Gringoire makes his final comment quite emotionally wrenching.
Feb 25 10 2:56 PM
atenolol wrote: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.
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.
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pringly wrote:>>>>I do appreciate Laughton, Hardwick, O'Hara, Zucco, and Davenport but at times they seem to be in a different movie than everybody else.<<<<I don't know what you exactly mean by that. Hugo's works always had side storys which seem to converge, sometime miraculasly, into the main story. That these side stories should have different tones from each other doesn't surprise or take anything away from the film for me.
Jan 31 11 8:18 AM
Wich2 wrote:Kess- >Chaney does a nice job and supposedly did all his own stunts< Joe Bonomo did some; and maybe someone else, on the trip down the rope in front of the church? >with a 60 lb hunch on his back< Michael Blake can speak better on this; but I'm pretty sure that's PR flackery, and it was nowhere near that heavy. -Craig
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Aupperle wrote:Monsterpal wrote:I agree, Ateneolol, somehow Quasimodo living through all that and seeing Esmeralda happily going off with Gringoire makes his final comment quite emotionally wrenching.Perfect ending to a great film...
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Rick wrote:Hugo's ending--the very end of the book-- is quite moving in its own right, once you get past all the death. But I actually think the Anthony Quinn HUNCHBACK, which is overall not very good, used Hugo's fadeout, while actually (forgive me, Victor) improving on it.Certainly for a film, the ending of the '39 is sheer perfection. You get a happy ending and heartbreak all in one package. It's just a beautiful movie all around.
The ending is further consummated by that incredible choral arrangement that crescendos just before the end cast list. Alfred Newman's full score is available (re-recorded in stereo) by Naxos and is still available for a song (no pun intended).
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