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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

"Life is to give and not to take. Promise me you will give also," the priest tells Jean Valjean after he has risked everything by stealing again.Jean goes on to exemplify those words. He becomes an industrialist and politician, but his most meaningful contribution is as surrogate father to orphaned Cossette.Both Jean and Cossette have suffered horribly, and life is finally looking up for them -- if not for Javert, the relentless, by-the-book police chief who has it in for a man who thinks for himself and lives by a superior moral code.Frederic March is a superb Jean who looks the part and delivers his powerful lines with intensity. I savored the scenes with Cedric Hardwicke as the forgiving priest. Charles Laughton was perfect, though wormy, as Javert, and beautiful Rochelle Hudson was a convincing grownup Cossette.This classic film from 1935 conjures the age without seeming dated. The climactic chase scene remains amazingly fresh. And the underlying theme of this film, as voiced by Valjean, is perhaps the most timeless element of all: "God is just, but men sometimes are not just."Some things never change.

Jean Valjean (March) is a convicted thief on the run from a merciless police officer (Laughton). The thief has managed to build himself a new life, which the officer threatens to bring tumbling down. Then the French Revolution occurs. The movie is beautifully filmed on old-fashioned Hollywood stage sets. March, a great actor, unfortunately at times seems as if he is in a silent movie, which this film was only a few years away from. Laughton is at his most sadistic as Inspector Javert. Most of the rest of the cast acts in a a very dated manner. Fortunately, the focus is almost completely on March and Laughton, whose constant cat and mouse game still works its magic today. For film buffs. All others can watch one of the more recent film adaptations.

This 1935 version of "Les Miserables" is perhaps the finest film ever produced during Hollywood's golden age. Highlighted by superb acting from three of the greatest English-speaking actors ever to appear on film (March, Laughton and Hardwicke), a superb script and outstanding production values, this 20h Century Fox production has more than stood the test of time. Now released on DVD, it is available for modern audiences to view and compare to other filmed and staged versions of this classic Victor Hugo tale. Even now, 73 years after it was filmed, it never fails to move the viewer with its extraordinarily powerful narrative. A not-to-be-missed film from Hollywood's Golden Age!

In my opinion, this version is far from being the best adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic and marvelous novel; these are my reasons: The Thernardiers, indispensable characters in the story, are relegated in the film to mere incidental figures. Their little son Gavroche does not even appear. Their daughter Eponine appears, but she has nothing to do with them, she is only a friend of Marius, in love with him. Fauchelevent also appears as an incidental character, when Jean Valejan saves him from dying; he does not appear when Valjean and Cosette arrive to the Petit-Picpus convent. The film does not end as the original story. Much better versions are the French ones directed in 1934 by Raymond Bernard, starring Harry Baur as Jean Valjean, and the 1982 directed by Robert Hossein, starring Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean.