Blu-ray Release: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

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Blu-ray Release Date: Sept. 28, 2021
Price: Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

Wallace Worsley’s 1923 is a million-dollar super-production of Victor Hugo’s famous novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) is presented here in a 4K restoration by Universal Pictures.

This epic adaptation recreated the Paris of 1482 complete with its own Notre Dame, and it established Lon Chaney as a monstrously sympathetic superstar. Chaney stars as Quasimodo, the mocked and vilified bell-ringer of Notre Dame who selflessly protects the starcrossed street performer Esmerelda (Patsy Ruth Miller), who is in an ill-fated love affair with the dashing Captain Phoebus (Norman Kerry). Chaney famously created the legendary makeup himself, and gave a performance of enormous sensitivity and pathos, launching him into Hollywood immortality.

Special features Kino Lorber’s new edition of the horrific drama-romance include the following:

-Audio commentary by film critic Farran Smith Nehme
-Booklet essay by film historian Michael F. Blake
-“Life in Hollywood” newsreel -Lon Chaney Home Movie footage
-Music by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum & Laura Karpman
-Slideshow of production correspondence
-Slideshow of production stills

Buy or Rent The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.