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Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
...Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene Reynolds, as a young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided between battlefield and pasture, falls into great maudlin chunks. Teariest scene: President Lincoln (John Carradine) making Jason Wilkins sit right down in the Presidential chair and write a letter home...
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