Top cast:Mary Pickford,Francis J. Grandon,Henry B. Walthall
Director:Will Louis
Genre:Biography
Region:South Africa
Year:1999
Storyline:And then, they encountered the Library Ghost (Ruth Oliver) (aka The Grey Lady) for the first time - the free-floating, ransparent, purplish apparition was in the form of an elderly lady in the library who was reading a book.He was stalking and/or trailing after a dark-green shrouded figure as she strode to the local Bay City Bank to make a deposit.Others of hem opened with a barrage of gunfire on Jason (but he survived), when he was found stalking engineer Crutch (Phillip Williams) in a cargo bay work area.Inside, two Hare Krishnas (David Leisure and John David Wilder) were also approached by a female religious zealot offering he same spiel, but she was told: "No thanks, we gave at the office.Laughton""s extensive make-up ook 2 1/2 hours each day to apply.Laughton had also appeared in another Victor Hugo film adaptation,Les Miserables (1935).A Tale of Two Cities (1935), another Hugo-based film adaptation, closely rivaled this 1939 classic.The historical costume adventure-drama (with a love quadrangle of sorts) also contained an element of horror - in the character of the deformed bellringer, although the real ""monster"" in the movie was the manipulative, treacherous, scheming and villainous Chief Justice (Jean Frollo), who was possessed by crazed homicidal urges stemming from unrequited love.