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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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

1.2K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Cicely
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Roger Anderson

Revolutionary
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Charlotte Austin

Student
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Frank Baker

Judge
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George Barrows

Gendarme
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Director
- Lewis Milestone
Writers
- Richard Murphy
- Victor Hugo
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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?

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The worst version rather in respect of Victor Hugo

In reaction to the reviewer qualifying this the best version he has seen I feel obliged to point that Victor Hugo is not respected here ; Cosette had a peaceful childhood and appears with Hollywood pretty dresses, and Gavroche,the kid from the miserables (people in misery starving) which becomes an emblem dying during the revolutionary barricades against the oppressive crush from fortunate class and bourgeoisie, is reduced here to deliver a letter ! Try reach the director Raymond Bernard trilogy, with Harry Baur as Jean Valjean. You will discover reality, not "let's not hurt audience" casting or look. Another more faithful version is the one with Jean Gabin, but with so clean miserables ! No, the trilogy by Raymond Bernard, shown from decades on French TV, recently restored by Cinematheque Francaise, seems to be the Victor Hugo book alive. No concession, misery is there, corrupted houses, characters alive rather than actors on parade. This trilogy is beyond art, it is life, as Victor Hugo described it.