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Les Miserables.

Newsweek | May 4, 1998 | Copyright

NOT EVEN COUNTING that musical that won't go away, there has been no shortage of Les Miserables to choose from. gour silen-movie versions were followed by six with sound (two french, one Italian, one TV movie). The most memorable was the 1935 Hollywood version with Fredric March as Jean Valjean and an unforgetable Charles Laughton as his implacable foe, Javert. Does the world really need another retelling? Frankly, no. But we'be got one anyway, this time with Liam Neeson as the reformed convict trying to live a decent life and Geoffrey Rush, of "Shine" fame, as the obsessive,…

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