""The Nile rat kills the crocodile."" This small press can destroy a kingdom."King Louis XI: "Oh, come, come, my High Justice, don""t exaggerate.What is that?"Printer: "It is the first page of a new book, Your Majesty."King Louis XI: "Let me see it.On the Freedom of Thought.Who wrote it?"Printer: "Pierre Gringoire."King Louis XI: "Gringoire? Who is he?"Printer: "A French poet, Your Majesty."Frollo: "A heretic, sire.To spread him is to communicate disease."King Louis XI: "How do you know? It may be a great blessing to France if people can get books and learn to read.I have seen it affect certain people very oddly.One cannot be sure.Sometimes, hese cases take strange forms.The victim becomes in a sense, ""mediumistic,"" a vehicle for all the intangible forces in operation around her.Stevens (his first Best Director nomination!) and Arthur would be nominated the following year forThe More the Merrier (1943)- and Arthur made her final film appearance in Stevens"" western classicShane (1953).Now an errand boy and ""owned"" by the union boss, he is unaware of his own personal power.But eventually because of orment over his actions and his realization of new choices in life, he joins forces with a tough-minded, courageous and crusading priest (Malden) and a loving, angelic blonde woman (Saint), a sister of one of the victims, to seek reform and challenge the mob.In the chaos, another young girl named Helene (Angela Mulinos) screamed and fell into the arms of her Grandmother (Gisela Werbisek), fearful and superstitious that she had crossed paths with the Hunchback.