Top cast:William E. Shay,Mary Pickford,J. Farrell MacDonald
Director:Christophe Gans
Genre:Family
Region:Hong Kong
Year:2015
Storyline:They""ve got the state capital here, you know.BackgroundThe Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939) is one of many film adaptations of the classic 1831 Victor Hugo ""beauty and the beast"" novel about a deaf, hunch-backed, outcast bellringer Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) in the Notre Dame Cathedral tower in medieval 15th century Paris, who fell in love with beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda (18 year-old Maureen O""Hara in her first major US role)., in the Spring of 1861." In 1861 on the eve of the Civil War, against the breath-taking backdrop of mountains and pine forests in an extreme long-shot, engineer Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) serves as the proud engineer in the cab of the Western and Atlantic Flyer R.The authenticity of the film is accentuated by dozens of sordid, on-location NYC sets (the Lower East Side, Times Square, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Grand Central Station, among others), sub-titles for the French dialogue, rough "Egan-style" police work, brutal winter scenes in the city, hand-held camera shots, and gutsy, nitty-gritty performances.The charming film about clashing ideologies (Soviet communism vs.capitalism) begins with Garbo portrayed at first as a humorless, cold, curt, deadpan, and seriously-austere Russian envoy (in a parody of her own stiff onscreen image), who soon melts and is transformed and softened by Parisian love (and a persuasive playboy Count) into a frivolous, romantic figure and converted Communist.The massive cast of the film totaled approximately 10,500 individuals.Its taglines were:The finest cast ever assembled re-lives history""s most powerful story of love and rebellion.