Word: quasimodo
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...Hunchback of Notre Dame would be like kicking a cripple. But a few mild prescriptions might bring the grotesque old man back to the health he deserves. Charles Laughton is superb in the lead role of Quasimodo, but some of the supporting parts, the photography, and the music fall just short of the excellence such a film must have...
...mist. He has presented at least half the film in almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does not seem to fit the action in some places, a little too blaring when Captain Phoebus captures Quasimodo, a little too violiny when Esmeralda prays to the Virgin Mary...
Charles Laughton's contribution is one of his best performances, as he manages to make hunchbacked Quasimodo not only monstrous but pitiably human...
...Manhattan last week, on their way from London to Hollywood (he to play Quasimodo, she probably Esmeralda, in RKO's revival of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), were heavy-lidded, heavy-lipped Actor Charles Laughton and his 18-year-old protegee, picture-pretty, red-headed Dubliner Maureen O'Hara. While she grinned, postured, made egg-big eyes for cameramen, he admitted: "The truth is that I'm an incurable...
...heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...