The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The 1923 film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Lon Chaney, is considered a masterpiece of silent cinema and a fundamental adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel. Despite the fact that in its premiere it received mixed and even negative reviews from industrial sectors (such as Variety, which described it as a disgusting nightmare), the film became Universal Pictures' biggest box office success in the 1920s