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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's State: "Les Miserables...
Under the auspices of the French Talking Films Committee, the second episode of "Les Miserables" will be presented at the Institute of Geographical Exploration on Monday and Wednesday at 1.40, 4, 6.30, and 8.50 o'clock. The third episode will be shown on Friday and Monday, May 10 and 13, at the same place and times...
...cinemaddicts whose acquaintance with Les Miserables derives from the silent adaptations made in 1918 and 1927, it may come as a surprise to learn that it is not only a monstrous piece of detective fiction but also the tragedy of a man's struggle with his own fate. It starts when Jean Valjean (Fredric March), represented as a deserving member of the Paris unemployed, is sentenced to the galleys for ten years for stealing a loaf of bread. There he first encounters Javert (Charles Laughton), the police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes...
...this point in Les Miserables Victor Hugo wrote a five-chapter treatise on the horrors of his next background, the Paris sewers. In his presentation of Valjean's final flight, Director Richard Boleslawski contrives to convey a comparable sense of horror...
Producer Zanuck's mistake about his motive for producing Les Miserables can be excused since neither he nor his associates made any more. Richard Boleslawski, under no illusions as to the material with which he was working, surrounds the action of the picture with rich and sulphurous gloom. Fredric March, decorated with such elaborate rags and whiskers that he had to be followed about the lot by a portable dressing room, gives a splendid performance. The strange buttery face of Charles Laughton, a mask of comedy in Ruggles of Red Gap, hardens into unforgettable lines of fixed, neurotic malice...