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Hunchback Of Notre Dame


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  Hunchback Of Notre Dame Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
6.57 /10
 
Starring
Lon Chaney , Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry
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Directed by: Wallace Worsley
Written by: Edward T. Lowe, Perley Poore Sheehan from Victor Hugo’s novel

 
 
 
Released: 1923
   
Genre: DRAMA
IMPORTANT
HORROR
SILENT
ROMANCE
COSTUME
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 120
 
 


 
A deformed bellringer (Lon Chaney, pictured left) falls for a gypsy girl (Patsy Ruth Miller, pictured right).

Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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Splendidly Gothic silent, which plays fast and loose with the source material, but has undeniable power and atmosphere. Norman Kerry is a bit wimpish as Phoebus, the guy who finally gets the girl, but Miller is sweet; and Chaney, though mannered by modern standards, is still curiously impressive.



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