In this version, the character of Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. While he deals with this, he also falls for a beautiful girl named Dea. The story (which is attributed, in the movie credits, to the director, producer and others involved in making the film, but not to Victor Hugo) has the disfigured acrobat being seduced by a noblewoman and in so doing becomes a henchman for the Borgias. Meanwhile, Dea miraculously acquires her eyesight and falls in love with a young nobleman. This nobleman is marked for death not just by Angelo's employers but by Angelo as well over the loss of Dea. Angelo's assassination attempt fails and he is mortally wounded. In the final scene the escaping Angelo staggers into a Leper Colony and falls dead.
En Italie au XVIe siècle, un jeune garçon, Angelo, est enlevé par des gitans. Défiguré pour que son visage affiche un rictus permanent, il devient une attraction de foire. Angelo finit par devenir l'homme de confiance de la famille Borgia ; César Borgia le fait opérer, pour lui rendre figure humaine et lui donner les traits de l'un de ses ennemis, dans le cadre d'une machination.
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