Watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Online

	IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 from 5,998 votes
	Release: 1939 / The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
	Genre: Drama \| Romance
	Director: William Dieterle
	Stars: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
	Synopsis: King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimoto to catch her. Quasimoto, with the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimoto to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire the Husband of Esmeralda, and Quasimoto, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows.