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This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sanson Film, Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinématographiques (CIPRA)
Original Title
L'uomo che ride
Original Language
Italian
Cast
Full credits →J
Jean Sorel
Angelo Bello / Astorre Manfredi
L
Lisa Gastoni
Lucrezia Borgia
I
Ilaria Occhini
Dea
E
Edmund Purdom
Cesare Borgia
G
Gino Pernice
Galeazzo
F
Ferdinando Poggi
Umberto
L
Linda Sini
Margherita
G
Gianni Musy
Paolo Orsini
N
Nino Vingelli
Ursus
L
Livia Contardi
P
Pierre Clémenti
Orsini's Partisan
A
Adriano Cornelli
Archimedes the Dwarf
J
John Bartha
Giovanni
