Movie Poster Collecting: Victor Hugo

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Les Miserables البؤساء Farid Shawqi 1973 Egyptian one-sheet

Les Miserables (1983) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Seif and Wahid Fahmy for the 1973 Atef Salem film Les Miserables based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel of the same title using a screenplay by Rafiq al-Saban and starring Farid Shawqi as Hamed Hamdan/Hassan al-Kashef. Plot summary: Hamed Hamdan is a poor man sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes, becomes rich and changes his name to Hassan al-Kashef, but though he uses his wealth charitably to help people in need, he is still subject to public disdain because the people know his origins.

Cast and crew: Victor Hugo, Atef Salem, Youssef Wahby, Farid Shawqi, Adel Adham, Laila Eloui, Mohsena Tewfik, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Abdel Waress Assar, Rafiq al-Saban, Ahmed Bahgat, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy

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Sunday, September 4, 2016

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) - (Anthony Quinn) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1956 Jean Delannoy film The Hunchback of Notre Dame based on the 1831 Victor Hugo novel with screenplay by Jean Aurenche, Jacques Prevert and Ben Hecht and starring Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo. Plot summary: In Paris in 1842 at the Festival of Fools the alchemist Claude Frollo [Alain Cuny] orders his servant the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo to kidnap the beautiful Gypsy dancer Esmerelda [Gina Lollobrigida]. When he approaches her Quasimodo is unable to resist Esmerelda's beauty.

Cast and crew: Jean Delannoy, Victor Hugo, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny, Robert Hirsch, Danielle Dumont, Philippe Clay, Maurice Sarfati, Jean Tissier, Valentine Tessier, Jacques Hilling, Jacques Dufilho, Roger Blin, Marianne Oswald, Roland Bailly

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Monday, February 9, 2015

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) - (Anthony Quinn)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) - (Anthony Quinn) US #4 Lobby Card

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) - (Anthony Quinn) US one-sheet

Pictured here are the 11" x 14" #4 US lobby card and the 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1957 Jean Delannoy film The Hunchback of Notre Dame based on the novel by Victor Hugo, screenplay by Jean Aurenche and Jacques Prevert and starring Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo, the hunchback. Plot summary: This film tells a slightly sanitized version of Hugo's 1830 story about the unlikely 15th-Century love between the tortured hunchback Quasimodo and the beautiful Gypsy street dancer Esmerelda [Gina Lollobrigida], who wins Quasimodo's heart by giving him water while he is being publicly flogged. For this performance Lollobrigida won the Bambi award for best actress.