It was a commercial disaster and his Dixon Studios went bankrupt.Some have argued hatThe Fall of a Nationisn""t a true sequel, because it didn""t follow a similar story, wasn""t set in the same ime period, and didn""t include any of the same characters.But then as they fell down onto the dusty floor, the ancient wall crumbled above them, unleashing skeletons onto them."]Plot SynopsisThe Boy""s Departure From Great Bend To the City:In the opening sequence set in 1922, the naive Boy (Harold Lloyd) appeared behind vertical bars and a ""noose"" - presumably imprisoning jail bars and a hanging rope before a gallows execution with a cleric present, but he was actually at a train station - a clever visual gag or trick.It""s a fiend." It was the first hideous view of misshapen and deafened Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), the ugly hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame - only part of his deformed face was visible.