Les Misérables

Original title: Les Miserables

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A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.

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6.8/10

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Michael Rennie

Jean Valjean

Robert Newton

Etienne Javert

Debra Paget

Cosette

Edmund Gwenn

Bishop Courbet

Sylvia Sidney

Fantine

Cameron Mitchell

Marius

Elsa Lanchester

Madame Magloire

James Robertson Justice

Robert

Joseph Wiseman

Genflou

Rhys Williams

Brevet

Florence Bates

Madame Bonnet

Robert Adler

Valjean's Coachman
(uncredited)

Leon Alton

Courtroom Spectator
(uncredited)

Merry Anders

Cicely
(uncredited)

Roger Anderson

Revolutionary
(uncredited)

Charlotte Austin

Student
(uncredited)

Frank Baker

Judge
(uncredited)

George Barrows

Gendarme
(uncredited)

Director
- Lewis Milestone
Writers
- Richard Murphy
- Victor Hugo
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Featured review

10/10

The Best Version of Les Miserables

This was the first version of Les Miserables that I saw. I have seen 3 versions since, including the excellent French version with Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovich, but none has the same sheer storytelling power of the 1952 version. Michael Rennie and Robert Newton are superb in their contrasting roles, and the support cast is excellent.

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Jul 22, 2002
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Trivia
Elsa Lanchester, who plays Madame Magloire, was married to Charles Laughton, the Etienne Javert of the 1935 version of Les Misérables (1935).

Goofs
Instead of a passport printed on yellow paper, to make its nature easily identifiable to all, Valjean is given a passport on regular paper (as evidenced by the fact Valjean did not know its nature until reading its text) with the word "Yellow" stamped across it. This makes no sense and is inaccurate to the way the passports of convicts were handled at the time.

Quotes
Jean Valjean: But this is common humanity! Are you a machine?
Etienne Javert: I am an officer of the law doing my duty. I have no choice in the matter. It makes no difference what I think or feel or want. It has nothing to do with me - nothing! Can't you see that?