Word: hunchbacks
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...errand of mercy through a small apartment house. As the priest goes from floor to floor, in search of a dying woman known only by the name of Morderet, Blondin presents a series of sharp character sketches: the retired general whose "majestic wife knits him regulation ear-muffs," the hunchback who practices the samba with a chair held in his arms, the robbers who once burglarized an apartment ("they carried down the garbage when they left, it was right on their way, after all"). No one knows of the woman named Morderet; we discover she is a chambermaid, known only...
Died. Dr. Donald Alfred Stauffer, 50, chairman of Princeton University's English department, George Eastman Professor of English (for the past year) at Oxford University, poet, Shakespearean scholar, critic and novelist (The Saint and the Hunchback); of a coronary thrombosis; in Oxford, England...
...manner of soldiers, doctors, refugees, and Arabs wander on and off the stage, but they all contribute more to the development of Lili Engel's character than to any coherent story. Their own character are sketchily drawn; one--a hunchback doctor by the name of Ghoulos--makes no sense at all. Except for Freund, a Viennese merchant convincingly portrayed by Paul Mann, these minor characters generally overact, perhaps because Director Elia Kazan feels the need of sharp contrast to the complexity of Mrs. Engel...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't in Technicolor, but with Charles Laughton carrying the title role as a hideously deformed bell-ringer, this picture doesn't even need a sound-track...
...crowd as he howls with maniacal laughter. For a finale, he overturns a cauldron of molten metal into the gutters leading to the cathedral's gargoyle rain-spouts. It blows onto the mob while Laughton executes his fiendish victory dance around the cauldron. For Charles Adams fans, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a must-see--for anyone else it is still a classic film...