Les Miserables

• Director: Glenn Jordan
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Period Film, Melodrama
• Main Cast: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins
• Release Year: 1978
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 150 minutes

Plot

The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that was a modest estimate). This time, Richard Jordan is the persecuted French ex-convict Jean Valjean, and Anthony Perkins is the relentless police officer Javert, who dogs Valjean's trail for forty years. Screenwriter John Gay does a nice compression job on Hugo's mammoth novel, including most of the familiar episodes ("The Bishop's Candlesticks" etc.) and reintroducing several vignettes that had been ignored by earlier adaptations. Norman Rosemont produced Les Miserables on a lavish scale in both England and France, populating the cast with several of Europe and America's best actors (including veteran Claude Dauphin, in his last screen appearance). Les Miserables debuted as a three-hour "IBM Special" on December 27, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Cyril Cusack; Claude Dauphin; John Gielgud - Gillenormand; Christopher Guard - Marius; Ian Holm; Celia Johnson; Joyce Redman; Flora Robson; Richard Jordan - Jean Valjean; Anthony Perkins - Inspector Javert

Credit

Tony Curtis - Art Director, Jack Stevens - Art Director, Angela Hareiter - Art Director, Glenn Jordan - Director, Bill Blunden - Editor, Allyn Ferguson - Composer (Music Score), Wilfred Shingleton - Production Designer, Jean Tournier - Cinematographer, Norman Rosemont - Producer, John Gay - Screenwriter, Victor Hugo - Book Author

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