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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1982 DVD Release: 03/03/2009 Format: DVD - Color - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film, Melodrama

While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this 1982 TV adaptation was the fourteenth filmization of the Hugo novel. Anthony Hopkins, barely recognizable under mounds of disfiguring body makeup, plays Quasimodo, the deformed 15th-century bellringer of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Leslie-Anne Down plays Esmerelda, the gypsy girl who wins Quasimodo's unswerving loyalty when she offers him water after he is publicly flogged. And Derek Jacobi plays Dom Claude Frollo, the hypocritically pious archdeacon of Notre Dame, who'll do anything to claim Esmerelda for himself. Produced by Norman Rosemont, The Hunchback of Notre Dame originally aired February 4, 1982, as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Anthony Hopkins - Quasimodo
Derek Jacobi - Dom Claude Frollo
Lesley-Anne Down - Esmeralda
Robert Powell - Phoebus
John Gielgud - Charmolue