The Hunchback of Notre Dame Adaptations
A list of adaptations of the historical novel. Enjoy.
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- DirectorJeremy KaganStarsAllan KatzCorey ParkerCindy WilliamsA college student and his girlfriend discover a mentally challenged hunchback living in the campus' bell tower. After a psychologist vouches for his ability to learn, he's made to go through tests, with help from the student couple.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsTheda BaraGlen WhiteWalter LawA gypsy girl with her foster-mother arrive in the French Capital where her beauty attracts the attention of the Apaches, and she becomes a member of their band. Her beauty attracts Claude Frallo, a scientist of note. She repulses him, as she has already fallen in love with Captain Phoebus. During a visit of the gypsy girl in the apartment of the handsome captain, Frallo kills the captain and makes his escape. Upon the arrival of the Gendarmes, Esmaralda is placed under arrest charged with the murder. Esmaralda is subjected to torture to make her confess, but is defiant, knowing that she is innocent. The bell ringer of the cathedral, Quasimodo, who secretly worships the Gypsy girl, becomes her protector. When Frallo visits the prisoner the bell ringer interferes. There is a struggle and the former is hurled from a parapet and killed. Again the girl appears before the tribunal. Put on the rack, she admits the murder of the captain. Just as Esmaralda is to be guillotined, the bell ringer gives the true version of the murder, implicating Frallo whom he killed. Quasimodo, the plucky bell ringer, who was Esmaralda's protector, and her liberator, becomes her husband.
- DirectorAlice GuyVictorin-Hippolyte JassetStarsDenise BeckerHenry VorinsLost French short film that is presumably the oldest film adaption of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre-Dame de Paris". Only stills of the film exist that depict Quasimodo being held by guards and Esmeralda flirting with a man on a horse.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsMandy PatinkinRichard HarrisSalma HayekBased on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.
- DirectorAlbert CapellaniStarsHenry KraussStacia NapierkowskaRené Alexandre1911 adaption of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in which three men around the Notre Dame Cathedral are romantically interested in Esmeralda, a Romani girl: Commander Phöebus, Quasimodo the bell ringer and archdeacon Claude Frollo.
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsLon ChaneyPatsy Ruth MillerNorman KerryIn 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraCedric HardwickeIn 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.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsGina LollobrigidaAnthony QuinnJean DanetThe timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsKenneth HaighWarren ClarkeMichelle NewellThe story of a deformed hunchback's love for a Gypsy girl in Paris.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerAlan HumeStarsAnthony HopkinsDerek JacobiDavid SuchetDisfigured man Quasimodo (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is feared and tormented by the townspeople of Notre Dame, but he has a sensitive nature of which few are aware.
- DirectorBradley RaymondStarsJason AlexanderJennifer Love HewittTom HulceQuasimodo goes into action when a magician seeks to steal one of the bells of Notre Dame.
- DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsDemi MooreJason AlexanderMary Kay BergmanA deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.