Excellent adaptation of Verdi's famed opera "Rigoletto," with the score used as incidental music. Simon is the poor hunchback reduced to a royal fool because of his condition. His job is to bring women to the young king (Brazzi) who uses them for his own lusty purposes. Simon has one
secret: he has a beautiful daughter whom he wants to keep away from the king. But he is tricked and the king has his way with her, as well. The hunchback swears revenge and hires Duranti, a gypsy girl, to seduce the king and kill him. But she, too, is wooed by the man's charms. When Simon returns
to collect the body, he is handed a sack with a corpse. He is about to dump it into the ri...
Released:
1941
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins