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.
Jean Sorel
as Angelo Bello / Astorre Manfredi
Lisa Gastoni
as Lucrezia Borgia
Ilaria Occhini
as Dea
Edmund Purdom
as Cesare Borgia
Gino Pernice
as Galeazzo
Ferdinando Poggi
as Umberto
Linda Sini
as Margherita
Gianni Musy
as Paolo Orsini
Nino Vingelli
as Ursus
Livia Contardi
as
Pierre Clémenti
as Orsini's Partisan
Adriano Cornelli
as Archimedes the Dwarf
