{"id":1136,"date":"2026-06-01T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:12:16","slug":"the-hunchback-of-norderney-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/the-hunchback-of-norderney-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunchback of Norderney Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following up on last week&#8217;s post, I was surprised to learn that Charles Laughton&#8217;s HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME actually had a limited regional release on Norderney Island in the 1950s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-regional-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-regional-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-regional-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-regional-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-regional.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than the regional title, the Norderney style poster is perfectly identical with the general release German movie poster from the first re-release, c. 1956 from RKO Pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both styles show the same artwork by Will Williams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-r56-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-r56-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-r56-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-r56-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hunchback-r56.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Norderney version is most likely one of a kind and not for sale. The other one is actually extremely rare as well and will go up on the website with my next update, probably in July. I am open for inquiries, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on last week&#8217;s post, I was surprised to learn that Charles Laughton&#8217;s HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME actually had a limited regional release on Norderney Island in the 1950s: Other than the regional title, the Norderney style poster is perfectly identical with the general release German movie poster from the first re-release, c. 1956 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}