It's time for us to start our three-episode look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which concludes in our 100th episode! With today's episode 98, we're look at the book, and six major French- and English-language adaptations from 1934 to 1967.
In this episode we discuss:
- Victor Hugo's original 1862 novel
- The 1934 French three-part movie, directed by Raymond Bernard, written by Bernard and André Lang, and starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel
- The 1935 American movie, directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by W.P. Lipscomb, and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
- The 1937 American radio drama, directed by, written by, and starring Orson Welles
- The 1952 American movie, directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Richard Murphy, and starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, and Edmund Gwenn
- The 1958 French movie, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, written by Michel Audiard and René Barjavel, and starring Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier
- The 1967 British television series, directed by Alan Bridges, written by Giles Cooper and Harry Green, and starring Frank Finlay and Anthony Bate
Footnotes:
- Les Misérables and France's Many Revolutions from Khan Academy