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Esmeralda is a 1922 British silent film and an adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, with more emphasis on the character on Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo. It was directed by Edwin J. Collins (who played the hunchback in the previous 1911 film The Hunchback (not to be confused with the novel by Hugo)) and starred Sybil Thorndike as Esmeralda and Booth Conway as the hunchback. The film is considered lost, but extant still photos show a 40-year-old Thorndike who appears to be too old for the role of the young and virginal Esmeralda. This version emphasized romance and melodrama over horror.[2]

Esmeralda
Directed by	Edwin J. Collins
Written by	Victor Hugo (novel) Frank Miller
Produced by	Master
Starring	Sybil Thorndike Booth Conway Arthur Kingsley
Release date	1922 (1922)
Running time	13 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent film English intertitles

The film was remade again in 1923 as The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Universal Pictures, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, in what is considered the classic silent film version.[3]

Cast

• Sybil Thorndike as Esmeralda
• Booth Conway as Quasimodo
• Annesley Healy as Claude Frollo
• Arthur Kingsley as Captain Phoebus

References

• Alan Goble, ed. (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Bowker-Saur. p. 233. ISBN 1857392299.

External links

• Esmeralda at IMDb

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