Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo in the classic silent film version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1923), a silent thriller to be screened with live music on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. at the Colonial ...
Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” better known in English as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” has enjoyed a long relationship with the big screen. The French, aptly enough, got there first ...
Talk about a tight connection. The silent film star Lon Chaney deeply identified with Victor Hugo’s character Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral who was deafened by his work.
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) starring Lon Chaney screens Thursday January 19th at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, MO 63143). In fifteenth century Paris, the brother ...