Library Cinema: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Library Cinema takes place in the Dunaway Community Room.

Doors open at 7PM, the film starts at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10.00, cash only.

Here’s Hollywood at its best, often seen around Halloween. It was RKO’s big budget (more than $2 million) period drama that was its most successful film that year in both critical acclaim and box office. It’s a sensitive and earnest adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel that provides a good mix of history and horror while it tells the story of a deformed bell-ringer, the deaf and hunchbacked Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), and his love for a beautiful gypsy woman Esmeralda (Maureen O’Hara, her first starring role at 19). Charles Laughton, in arguably his best acting performance of his career, was almost unrecognizable as the disfigured and mis-shapen, but sympathetic title character Quasimodo. Laughton's extensive make-up took 2 1/2 hours each day to apply. The All-Star cast included Cedric Hardwicke, Edmond O’Brien and Thomas Mitchell. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this digitally restored film on our big screen.

“94%” - Rotten Tomatoes.

(USA 1939) Ends at 9:45.