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Acting
Quinn's physical performance through pounds of latex and pain.
Production
Actual Notre Dame location shoots, no green screen nonsense.
Costume
Lollobrigida's Esmeralda: the definition of 'distracting from the plot.'

Director
Jean Delannoy
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