Les Miserables

1952
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1h 45m

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6.8/10

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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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Les Miserables (1952)

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

Goofs
As part of his prison sentence, Jean Valjean and his fellow convicts are used as galley rowers aboard a ship. France discontinued this practice in 1748, more than half a century before this story takes place. The use of the term "galley" as slang for prison continued in France, hence its use in the original novel upon which this film is based, which may have led to confusion among English speakers when adapting the story.

Quotes
Etienne Javert: I pride myself on being a good officer.
Jean Valjean: That's very good. Only I'm afraid you'll get little practice here, Inspector Javert. We're a quiet town.
Etienne Javert: I have heard this, yet there is crime everywhere, monsieur.
Jean Valjean: And filth also if one looks hard enough.

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A very good but not GREAT version with the exception of the great Robert Newton as Javert.

The REAL reason to see this film is to watch Robert Newton as Javert. Javert was a gypsy born in prison who, by shear force of will on his part, has gotten himself into a position of power. He is inflexible and Spartan in his life style and expects as much or more of himself than he does his acquaintances, (he has no friends), and those he rules over.

The problem with the film is that Michael Rene is nothing like Hugo's massive peasant, Valjean. Jean Valjean was a stocky, broad-shouldered, barrel-chested man of only average height and a low center of gravity, Not the tall, slender, elegant Rene. AND, Rene was only an average actor. Deborah Paget couldn't act at all, she was there for pure decoration value.

See this film for Newton's Javert. He is superb.