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by danjane711
15 Jan, 2024
THE BEST VERSION
This story has been turned into quite a few different movie versions. I stumbled onto this one somewhere back in the 80s late at night on TV. It is long....and I was lucky to get in at the start of it and turned on my vhs recorder. After finally watching it, I was just blown away.....the acting, cinematography, haunting music (this is not a musical version, but has music for effect). When I was a kid, in the 50s and 60s, the Catholic church had a movie rating system called the Legion of Decency. The original movie version of Les Miserables was rated C for condemned. The reason I was blown away by this story was that it is the story of a guy who stole a loaf of bread to feed his family, receives a brutal sentence, tries multiple times to escape, gets more years added to his sentence, finally escapes...... At this point, he is almost an animal and trusts no one. If you've never seen it, I don't want to ruin it for you, but a priest shelters him and through events that follow concerning the police, teaches him unconditional love. It's a wonderful story about love! Condemned? Huh? Well, there is a scene near the end where someone commits suicide because he can't handle the message....and again I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone. That is the only thing in this story that might have earned the church's condemnation. A shame, because it is an exhausting, gritty, frightening, beautiful love story.
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by stgra_80
17 Mar, 2025
Classic Novel’s Movie Treatment
I saw this made for TV movie back years ago. It tells a classic novel’s story. I’m sure like most movie treatments, it left plenty of story out.
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by maxxba_1
10 Feb, 2024
the title means the miserable ones.
the movie tells the tale of a man who goes to prison for stealing food for his family.
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by ftldave
28 Oct, 2021
Great deal, great movie
Like new condition, and a darn good movie, one of the best versions of this classic story. Though not the full broadcast version, with a few scenes cut, it's still an excellent value.
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by tealbird1
28 Aug, 2018
Les Miserables
A very moving movie about one man's quest for freedom and the life changing event that inspired him to be all that is good
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by clado_421251
16 Sep, 2020
This 1978 version the best portrayal of Les Miserables
Characters portrayed in movie exactly the way the book read, but easier to follow when seen on film.
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by i2HMpZu7T2S@Deleted
26 Aug, 2016
Great Classic
Enjoyed very much. Color addition
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