YMMV / Le Bossu (1959)

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: According to sources from the time, there really was a hunchback living in Paris' financial district during Philippe d'Orléans' regency, and he really made a living by getting paid to allow people to sign papers on his twisted back (exploiting a superstition saying it brings good luck). His real identity and fate are a mystery.
• Retroactive Recognition: The voice of the actor playing Gonzague, François Chaumette, may sound quite familiar to French audiences. It's because he went on to dub HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (he would be replaced by Georges Aminel from The Empire Strikes Back onwards) and Khan Noonien Sing in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, plus a few more science-fiction villains such as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon and Skeletor in the Masters of the Universe movie.
• Spiritual Successor: It's the second swashbuckler film in a row after 1958's La Tour, prends garde! in which Jean Marais plays a honorable man named Henri who swears to honor a dying duke's Last Request (the duke was stabbed In the Back by his traitorous assistant) to protect the duke's secret daughter and ensure she gets her due inheritance. He gets falsely accused of the duke's murder in both, and romances the daughter in both.

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