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...horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton's own right eye, keeps his face drawn in a deformed grim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Even more amazing is the make-up magic by which Westmore somehow transfers burly, bulging Cinemactor Laughton's paunch to his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Charles Laughton's contribution is one of his best performances, as he manages to make hunchbacked Quasimodo not only monstrous but pitiably human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Highest high jinks: Charles Laughton having himself a wonderful time in the turret of Notre Dame, playing the bells with his feet, swinging apelike from the bell ropes, dropping building blocks and raining a vast cauldron of molten lead through gargoyles' mouths down on his fellow citizens in the square below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Charles Laughton's expert mugging, the acting of Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Hampden, and a host of new and pretty faces don't redeem the crude bungling of the psychological plot at the hands of the Hollywood hair raisers. Confidentially, it's only fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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