Word: valjean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from Jean Valjean, you are returned here not to suffer from the vindictiveness of the law. Our criminal law proceeds in its enforcement from no motives of revenge, and you have been returned not for the purpose of persecution but in order that you may be prosecuted in a decent and humane manner for the crime whereof you are charged...
...Indeed, you seem to present to me in many respects a modern portrait having great likeness to that famous character painted by Victor Hugo-in sooth, you appear to be a modern Jean Valjean...
Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
...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 him, as long as he lives...
...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...