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4	In 1982, the eighth film adaptation of Creator/VictorHugo's famous novel ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' was produced as a part of the long-running ''Series/HallmarkHallOfFame'' series. It featured a number of legendary actors such as Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Quasimodo, Creator/DerekJacobi as Claude Frollo, Creator/JohnGielgud as Jacques Charmolue and Creator/DavidSuchet as Clopin Trouillefou.
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7	!!This film contains examples of:
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9	* AbledInTheAdaptation: Downplayed. Quasimodo still has most of his disabilities, save for being half-blind in that the wart does not cover his left eye as it did in the book.
10	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In a manner of speaking. In the original novel, Frollo was completely bald with only a few white hairs on his head, in other words he was YoungerThanTheyLook. As portrayed by a forty-four-year-old Derek Jacobi, Frollo does not look nearly so old.
11	* AdaptationalJerkass: In contrast to the book where Phoebus was not yet married, in the film itself he reveals to Esmeralda that he already is married, turning him from a simple womanizer to an adulterous husband.
12	* AdaptedOut: Sister Gudule, Jehan Frollo and Louis XI are all omitted.
13	* AgeLift: Quasimodo was 16-20 years of age in the novel while he is 25 in the film. Likewise, Frollo is a tad bit older than 36, being 44 going by Derek Jacobi's age, as he is a young man when he adopts Frollo rather than an eleven-year-old boy.
14	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Esmeralda has her bare foot crushed in a torturing device known as the Boot to get her to confess to Phoebus' murder. Needless to say, it works.
15	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Due to her literary counterpart having been an example of AmbiguouslyBrown, it is uncertain if this portrayal of Esmeralda is truly a RaceLift or still an example of Roma by adoption with her backstory having been cut.
16	* AmbiguousSituation: Due to Esmeralda's age never being brought up, it is unclear if she is still 16-20 or has also been subject to an AgeLift like Quasimodo, thus making her 25. That Lesley-Anne Down was 28 at the time suggests the latter, however DawsonCasting may be in effect.
17	* BarefootCaptives: Esmeralda has her shoes taken from her during her torture scene and spends the rest of the film barefoot. She doesn't really seem to mind, though.
18	* DisneyVillainDeath: Inverted, with Quasimodo dying by falling rather than Frollo.
19	* HotGypsyWoman: Esmeralda is definitely perceived as this, which is hardly surprising as she's portrayed by a young Lesley-Anne Down. Whether or not she's supposed to be of actual Roma descent is another matter.
20	* TheGhost: What Fleur-de-Lys was demoted to, being referred to when Phoebus says he is already married.
21	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In contrast to the original novel, Frollo is impaled on a hook in the bell tower by Quasimodo in self-defense.

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