Fredric March gives one of his finest performances as Jean Valjean-far better than Michael Rennie's pallid one in the 1952 remake- and his voice reminds one not of Jimmy Stewart, but of John Barrymore, an actor to whom March was often compared to in his early days.
Griffith features, were virtually unheard of before 1936 (the year that "The Great Ziegfeld" was released). No film has ever been able to do that, and three-hour American films, except for a couple of D.W. It is too much to ask a film that lasts a little less than two hours to pack in all the important incidents in a book that consists of more than 1,000 pages. Although you would not think so from reading some of the reviews here, the 1935 film version of "Les Miserables" is excellent and one of the best film versions of the novel, especially considering its 108 minute length.
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