Die Elenden (1935)
Im Frankreich des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts wird Jean Valjean, der von gutem Charakter und großer Stärke ist, wegen des Diebstahls eines Laibes Brot zu einer langjährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Als er nach zehn Jahren Haft endlich aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird, versucht er sich unter anderer Identität in einen anständigen Bürger zu verwandeln. Mittlerweile ein reicher und angesehener Mann, versucht Valjean die verarmte Frau Fantine mit ihrer Tochter Cosette. Durch einen unglücklichen Zufall muss sich Valjean vor der Öffentlichkeit seine düstere Vergangenheit bekennen, was seinen Ruf wieder zerstört und die bereits kranke Fantine vor Schreck sterben lässt. Es kommt zu einem lebenslangen Elend Valjeans und insbesondere zur gnadenlosen ständigen Verfolgung durch den kompromisslosen und brutalen Polizisten Javert.
Der Regisseur: Richard Boleslawski
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Fredric March as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu |
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Charles Laughton as Inspector Emile Javert |
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Cedric Hardwicke as Bishop Bienvenue (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) |
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Rochelle Hudson as Cosette |
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Florence Eldridge as Fantine |
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Frances Drake as Eponine |
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John Beal as Marius |
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Jessie Ralph as Madame Magloire |
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Mary Forbes as Mlle. Baptiseme |
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Florence Roberts as Toussaint |
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Jane Kerr as Madame Thenardier |
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Ferdinand Gottschalk as Thenardier |
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Charles Haefeli as Brevet |
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Marilyn Knowlden as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden) |
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John Bleifer as Chenildieu |
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Eily Malyon as Mother Superior |
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John Carradine as Enjolras |
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Bess Flowers as Trial Spectator (uncredited) |
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Robert Greig as Prison Governor at Jean's Release (uncredited) |
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Kai Schmidt as Lawyer (uncredited) |
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Everett Brown as Black Convict |
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Leonid Kinskey as Genflou |
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Harry Semels as Cochepaille |
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Ian Maclaren as Head Gardener |
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Vernon Downing as Brissac |
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Lyons Wickland as Lamarque |
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Herbert Ashley as Drunk at Inn |
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Sam Baker as Black Convict |
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Elmer Ballard as Court Clerk |
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Reginald Barlow as Henri |
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George Barraud as Prosecutor in Arras |
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Leon Beaumon as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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Margaret Bloodgood as Factory Forewoman |
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Stanley Blystone as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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Sidney Bracey as Mayor's Clerk |
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Herbert Bunston as Judge at Favorelles |
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Ray Burgess as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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William P. Carleton as First Judge in Arras |
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Phillip Cash as Galley Carpenter Warders |
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Kathleen Chambers as Jean's Paris Servant After Convent |
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Stephen Chase as Gendarme at Bishop's Home |
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Davison Clark as Marcin |
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Gilbert Clayton as Duchaine |
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Heinie Conklin as Drunk at Inn |
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Maxine Cook as Thernardier's Child |
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Harry Cording as Beam Warder |
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J. Gunnis Davis as Defense Consul in Arras |
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Jack Curtis as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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Joe De Stefani as Usher in Arras Courtroom / Old Clerk in Arras |
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Lowell Drew as Duval |
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David Dunbar as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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Cecil Elliott as Concierge |
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William Elmer as Lawyer |
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Arthur Evers as Court Clerk |
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Al Ferguson as Gendarme |
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Raúl Figarola as Lawyer |
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Budd Fine as Galley Fight Warder |
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Olin Francis as Galley Whip Warder |
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Christian J. Frank as Gendarme Investigator |
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Roger Gray as Gendarme at Inn |
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Robert Greig as Prison Governor at Jean's Release |
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George Guhl as Onlooker |
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Frank Hagney as Galley Prisoner |
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Lew Hicks as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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Keith Hitchcock as Senior Prefect Confirming Gendarme Appointments |
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Gertrude Hoffmann as Nurse |
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Virginia Howell as Old Beggarwoman Directing Jean to Bishop |
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Olaf Hytten as Pierre |
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John Ince as Third Judge in Arras |
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E. Midge Ingleton as Peasant Woman on Road |
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Ethan Laidlaw as Gendarme at Bishop's Home |
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Wilfred Lucas as Onlooker |
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Mary MacLaren as Nurse |
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George MacQuarrie as Doorman at Arras |
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Murdock MacQuarrie as Fauchelevant |
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James Pier Mason as Galley Prisoner |
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Frank McCarroll as Javert's Aide in Chase |
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Philo McCullough as Galley Whip Warder |
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J.P. McGowan as Javert's Plainclothesman |
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Leonard Mudie as Priest Counselling Released Prisoners |
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John Northpole as Gendarme in Prefect's Office |
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G. Raymond Nye as Jacques |
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Frederick Peters as Galley Whip Warder |
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Francis Powers as Lawyer |
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Albert Prisco as Galley Prisoner |
| Directing | Richard Boleslawski | Director |
| Writing | Victor Hugo | Novel |
| Writing | W.P. Lipscomb | Writer |
| Production | Darryl F. Zanuck | Producer |
| Editing | Barbara McLean | Editor |
| Production | Lew Schreiber | Casting |
| Art | Richard Day | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Omar Kiam | Costume Design |
| Directing | Eric Stacey | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Roger Heman Sr. | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Frank Maher | Sound Engineer |
| Camera | Gregg Toland | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Alfred Newman | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ray Lopez | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Larry Judge | Wardrobe Designer |
