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  • Les miserables (Part II) (1909)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Les miserables (Part II) (1909)
Short | Short, Drama
This second incident deals with the unfortunate Fantine and Jean Valjean, now a respectable member of society, thanks to the generous action of the good bishop, and Mayor of the town, is known as M. Madeline. Fantine, betrayed and deserted...See moreThis second incident deals with the unfortunate Fantine and Jean Valjean, now a respectable member of society, thanks to the generous action of the good bishop, and Mayor of the town, is known as M. Madeline. Fantine, betrayed and deserted, is forced to leave her little girl, Cosette, with the evil Thenardier, who abuses the unfortunate child and persistently bleeds the mother with demands for money. She is unable to obtain work and is forced to sell her beautiful hair for ten francs to send Thenardier, who declares that Cosette needs warmer clothing. Later she is told that Cosette is ill and that money is needed for medical attendance. She cannot supply the sum, but encountering a traveling dentist, who is searching for sound teeth from which to construct false plates, she sells her teeth for the needed sum. She is exhausted by the shock of the extraction and Javert, the cruel Inspector of Police, jeers at her. She has refused his advances and he is determined to win her, persecuting her with his attentions. M. Madeline saves Fantine from his importunities and incurs the enmity of Javert. In exerting his prodigious strength to release the citizen Fauchelevant from beneath an overturned cart, he arouses the suspicions of Javert, who was a keeper in the galleys where Jean served his sentence. Javert recalls Jean's almost superhuman strength and, to test his theory, tells M. Madeline that he suspects Champmathier of being Jean Valjean. He arrests Champmathier and brings into court a number of convicts to testify to his identity, which they do readily enough. Jean, unwilling to see an innocent man suffer, discloses his identity, freeing himself but bringing upon himself the rigors of the law. His arrest is so great a shock to Fantine, now deprived of her benefactor, that she falls dead as Jean once more is held in the grasp of the law. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Van Dyke Brooke
Writer
Victor Hugo (novel)
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Updated Sep 25, 1909
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Sep 25, 1909 (United States)

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