1923 · drama · horror · silent
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Directed by Wallace Worsley1h 53m1923
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Our read: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · horror · silent entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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