• Oct 28, 2010 from 14:00 to 15:00
  • Location: Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
  • Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2020
On Thursday, October 28th at 6pm in the Rosenthal Lecture Room at the Foundation’s offices, the Preservation Foundation will offer a special pre-Halloween Film Night. The classic 1939 film of The Hunchback of Notre Dame will be shown. The Foundation’s Director of Public Affairs Alexander C. Ives will, as with the previous Film Nights, present a short introduction to the film. The event is FREE to all, though seating is limited. To make reservations please respond to this email or call 561.832.0731. The Foundation’s offices are located at 311 Peruvian Avenue in Palm Beach. Drinks, sodas, wine, and food snacks will be provided with the film. The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells the famous story of a cathedral in medieval Paris and its inhabitants among whom are the horrifically deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, the devious Claude Frollo, and the struggling poet Gringoire. When Esmeralda is framed for murder and witchcraft only the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral Quasimodo can save her. The film is based on the famous 1831 book by French novelist Victor Hugo that sought to use architecture as a way to examine and deal with issues of a society caught between two types, in this case Gothic society. In particular, the plot deals with free expression of thought through various means, including buildings, and for the era in which the plot takes place, the newly-created printing press. It is also a story of passion, lust, and romance between its main characters with heartbroken Quasimodo famously begging the question of the cathedral’s statues, “Why was I not made of stone, like thee?” William Dieterle directed the film and it stars Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Frollo, Maureen O’Hara as Esmeralda, Thomas Mitchell as Clopin, Edmond O’Brien as Gringoire, and Alan Marshal as Phoebus.
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