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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Director(s) Wallace Worsley
Producer(s) Irving Thalberg (uncredited), Carl Laemmle (uncredited)
Top Genres Drama, Film Adaptation, Horror, Silent Films
Top Topics Book-Based, Paris
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) was a Silent Films - Drama Film directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Irving Thalberg and Carl Laemmle.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quotes:

Quasimodo: [title card] Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
Quasimodo: Why was I not made of stone, like thee?
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Facts
Over 750 technicians worked on this film, including 105 electricians. Carpenters and masons constructed the cathedral set, which remained standing until destroyed by fire in 1967.
Wallace Worsley Jr., son of the film's director, said that many of the extras for the massive crowd scenes were recruited in downtown Los Angeles for $1.00 a night and meals. Among them, he said, were a good number of prostitutes, who did a "considerable sideline business" on the sets. Universal also hired 50 Pinkerton detectives and put them among the crowd, and their job was to catch pickpockets and various other thieves among the extras.
Poor quality transfers of the film are due to the fact that the film only survives in 16mm form, mainly through Universal's "Show-At-Home" film rental library. About 10-15 minutes of footage still remains missing.
A competition was held in 1923 through Universal through various Photoplay music (stock silent music) companies to come up with a theme song for the film. The winner was Maurice Baron, whose characteristic reverie "The Chimes of Notre Dame" was used as the main theme. The original cue sheet to the film came with a copy of the piece for piano, with the suggestion that it be used imperatively.
Lon Chaney's salary on the film was $2,500 a week. Shooting began in December of 1922, and was completed in June of 1923. Chaney ended up making close to $60,000 plus contract bonuses from the picture, which was the longest shoot in his career.
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