This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.
as Angelo Bello / Astorre Manfredi
as Lucrezia Borgia
as Dea
as Cesare Borgia
as Galeazzo
as Umberto
as Margherita
as Paolo Orsini
as Ursus
as Orsini's Partisan
as Archimedes the Dwarf
as Giovanni
