Les Mis%C3%A9rables (1952 film)

Les Misrables is a 1952 American film adapted from the novel Les Misrables by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, and Sylvia Sidney as Fantine.

Valjean serves his time on an actual galley. On leaving the bishops house, Valjean kneels on a fallen rose. This rose becomes for him the symbol of the bishops forgiveness it leads him to putting back some objects he intends to steal from a goldsmith.When rescuing one if his townspeople as Mayor Madelaine, Valjean does not lift the cart but merely stops it. Javert sets up the trial of an innocent man accused of being the escaped convict Valjean to trick Valjean into revealing himself. ........

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