One of the film""s posters advertised: "Only Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock ever gave you so much suspense in so many directions.And 6"" 8" tall, ""mute"" native American Chief Bromden, a paranoid schizophrenic, narrated the story and was the central character in the novel, providing hallucinatory images of an all-powerful, all-seeing bureaucratic ""harvesting machine"" designed to foster complete social integration - a Combine, that would squelch all individuality and create a compliant society (both within the hospital and in the wider society)." A trap was set outside the FBI building with Graham as the decoy, but the jogger-suspect was not the "Tooth Fairy.]The next day, the plan was for Ethan to meet "Max" on the high-speed TGV bullet train en route to Paris, to turn over the NOC list in exchange for delivery of the mole, Job.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.