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April 10, 2026
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"[to Christine] Your father has sent me. I am your angel. All of your lessons have led to this moment. We will make music that the world will love forever. Take the last step to me. To your destiny. To immortality."
"The Devil: [as he burns Erik's face with a magic touch] People will love you for your music. But that is all that they will love you for."
"Donald Eccles — Judge"
"Timothy Bateson — Commerce"
"Dave Hill — Coppenhole"
"Rosalie Crutchley — Simone"
"David Kelly — Tavernkeeper"
"Joseph Blatchley — Albert"
"Harvey Clark — Briquet"
"Paulette Duval — Zinida"
"Nigel Hawthorne — Magistrate at Esmeralda's trial"
"Evil Is The Eye Of The Beholder"
"Roland Culver — Bishop of Paris"
"Lesley-Anne Down — Esmeralda"
"Anthony Hopkins — Quasimodo"
"Norma Shearer — Consuelo"
"John Gilbert — Bezano"
"Tully Marshall — Count Mancini"
"Lon Chaney — Paul Beaumont"
"What is it in human nature that makes people quick to laugh when someone else gets slapped - whether the slap be spiritual, mental, or physical?"
"Victor Seastrom's production of the famous stage play by Leonid Andreyev."
"Marc McDermott — Baron Regnard"
"Paul Beaumont lived - to laugh at life. He laughed at his wife and the Baron - and left them to the doubtful joy of each other's society."
"Ford Sterling — Tricaud"
"Derek Jacobi — Claude Frollo"
"David Suchet — Clopin Trouillefou"
"Robert Powell — Captain Phoebus"
"Gerry Sundquist — Pierre Gringoire"
"Tim Pigott-Smith — Phillipe"
"John Gielgud — Jacques Charmolue"
"Laughter - the bitterest and most subtle death to hope..."
"A strange thing, the heart of a man - that loves, suffers, and despairs - yet has courage to hope, believe - and love - again."
"Over a hundred slaps last night, HE - you lucky fellow! Soon you'll be getting famous! But you know what they like - there's nothing makes people laugh so hard as seeing someone else get slapped!"
"Years had passed - Paul Beaumont was forgotten - but the laugh was still his. For the brilliant scientist had, with a supreme gesture of contempt, made himself a common clown - In a little circus near Paris, he amused the idle, the ignorant and vicious, with an act of his own fancy - under the expressive name of "HE - Who Gets Slapped" - Five years before, Tricaud had hired the strange clown who desired only to be slapped - and now each night he proudly counted his slaps - and the laughs..."
"In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best..."
"Walter Long — The Captain"
"Bob Kortman — Henchman"
"John Beck — Bill"
"He slapped me, Marie. I would have killed him, but they laughed - laughed as if I were a clown."
"Henry A. Barrows — John Cooper, Sr."
"Christine Mayo — Ann Cardington, AKA "Queen Anne""
"Harry De Vere — Olaf Wismer (final film role)"
"You forget, gentlemen - this is a circus - love must wait - - the performance must go on!"
"Lon Chaney — Wilse Dilling"
"Virginia Valli — Gertrude Hadley"
"Jack Mower — Jack Cooper"
"I say serious things - and people laugh at me!"
"John St. Polis — Nate Snow"
"Walter Long — Daniel Gibbs"
"You Haven't seen anything yet! Wait until you see The Shock"