KING’S THEATRE
“THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME” A romance between a Gipsy girl and a mendicant poet, the unholy plotting of a powerful nobleman, and the courage and self-sacrifice of g deformed outcast comprise the principal themes of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” the current impressive film version of Victor Hugo's classic,- now showing to packed houses at the King's Theatre. With Charles Laughton scoring the characterisation triumph of his career as the pitiable and admirable Quasimodo, the cathedral bell-ringer, the film also presents his new protege, Maureen O’Hara, as the Gipsy dancer, heroine of this memorable offering. Laid in the Paris of 1482, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” takes place in and around the famous Notre Dame cathedral, Saint Chapelle, and other landmarks which are reproduced in enormous settings peopled with a record cast of 3500 players. When the Gipsy is sentenced to the gallows for a crime of which the King’s High Justice is guilty, Quasimodo saves her from the executioner at the cost of his own life, but not before he causes the nobleman’s confession and restores the dancer to her poet-lover.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20244, 11 May 1940, Page 3
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