However, just as they reveal the brand upon his chest, Éponine yells out that Javert is arriving.

* In the movie, Javert is shown being assigned to the galleys, and seeing Valjean's display of strength at the beginning.

Javert, who was at the scene and had sent for a jack, told Valjean that he'd known a very strong man, back when Javert had worked as the guard for a prison chain gang, who had climbed under a wagon like that one and raised it on his back.

When Valjean orders Javert to leave in front of Javert's squad, Javert leaves and denounces " Madeleine " to the prefect of police at Paris, saying that he suspects Madeleine is Valjean.

It is at that moment that Javert enters the scene.

Valjean and Cosette do not take refuge from Javert in a convent, as they do in the novel, and Valjean never stays at the Gorbeau house.

Valjean begs him to grant him three days ' time to fetch Fantine's child, promising to return, at which Javert scoffs.

Javert gazes at the night sky, comparing his hunt of Valjean and justice to the order of the stars (" Stars ").

After the students defy an army warning that they surrender or die (" Back at the Barricade "), Javert returns and tells the students that the government will attack (" Javert's Arrival ").

Robert plays a rather large role, being the only one who knows about Valjean's past and who practically convinces Javert to let Valjean go at the end.

His portrayal of Javert earned him his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a role which he would later reprise near the end of the musical's run at the Imperial Theater in 2003.

* Valjean and Cosette's stay at the Gorbeau House, their dodging of Javert and their arrival at the Petit-Picpus convent is entirely left out.

* When Marius notifies Javert of the Thénardiers ' plans, he is also able to give Javert Valjean's address, at least one of them.

* Swordsman ( Philip Javert ) at Marvel. wikia. com

Suddenly, she and Valjean see Javert at the door.

* Fantine dies peacefully in hospital with Valjean at her side after entrusting him with Cosette ; Javert never reveals Valjean's true identity to her, as he arrives after her death.

He is confronted by Javert at the exit, who had pursued Thenardier there and was watching the exit in hopes of catching him.

We later find out that Valjean sparing his life at the barricade had caused a moral paradox and that Javert had gone to throw himself into the Seine.

* Valjean and Cosette's stay at Gorbeau House, their avoidance of Javert and their arrival at the Petit-Picpus convent is cut.

* " Javert at the barricade / Little People "

Later, Javert arrested Fantine, who had become a prostitute, when he saw her spit and try to hit a bourgeois named Bamatabois, who had taunted Fantine and thrown snow down her dress while she walked back and forth trying to get business.

Valjean asks for three days to get Cosette from Montfermeil and give her to Fantine before he is arrested and Javert refuses, saying that it would be too easy for Valjean to escape.

; Fantine's Arrest: After Javert has arrested Fantine for assaulting a man, the mayor orders him to let Fantine go.

After renewing his promise to Fantine, he knocks Javert out and flees.

Jean Valjean ( who is revealed to be the mayor ) soon arrives, and realising his part in the ruination of Fantine, orders Javert to let her go and takes her to a hospital.

It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, Sylvia Sidney as Fantine, Debra Paget as Cosette, Edmund Gwenn as the bishop, Cameron Mitchell as Marius, Elsa Lanchester as Madame Magloire and James Robertson Justice as Robert ( Fauchelevent ).

It featured Alfie Boe as Jean Valjean, Norm Lewis as Javert, Lea Salonga as Fantine, Ramin Karimloo as Enjolras, Hadley Fraser as Grantaire, Katie Hall as Cosette, Matt Lucas as Thénardier, Jenny Galloway as Madame Thénardier, Samantha Barks as Éponine, Nick Jonas as Marius, the role Ball delivered in the original London production.

Dismissing the act, Valjean orders Javert to free Fantine, which he reluctantly does.

; The Confrontation ( silent ): Valjean and Javert confront each other by Fantine ’ s bedside.

Javert finally decides to denounce Valjean as an ex-convict after Valjean frees Fantine, a prostitute detained by Javert for having a violent row with a street idler.

Javert and several other officers arrest Fantine for attacking Bamatabois, and Javert dismisses Fantine's claims of having a child to support as the same lies he has always heard from criminals.

When " Madeleine " arrives, pardons Fantine and has her taken to a hospital, Javert is still suspicious of her and attempts to protest to the mayor, to no avail.

At the hospital, after Fantine has died, Javert arrives to find Valjean at her deathbed.

Crowe will be taking on the role of Inspector Javert in the musical film of Les Misérables.

Javert is told that he must be incorrect because the " real " Jean Valjean ( who is in reality Champmathieu ) had just been found.

Javert then apologizes to " M. Madeleine ", and tells him that the " real " Jean Valjean has been found and is to be tried the next day.

Javert also asks that he be dismissed in disgrace by Valjean from his job for acting out of revenge incorrectly, saying that since he had been hard on others he could not be less harsh on himself but after Valjean repeatedly refuses, Javert says he will continue acting as police chief until a replacement can be found.

Valjean asks that he be allowed to kill Javert, who had been captured as a spy.

Javert warns Valjean that that should Valjean allow him to go free instead of killing him, that he will still be bound to arrest Valjean.

Valjean then asks that he be allowed to return home to say goodbye to Cosette and Javert agrees, saying that he will wait out front.

Faced with the choice of turning in a man who'd done only good acts for years and had saved Javert's life, or of letting a known criminal go free, Javert ended up " requesting of God " that he, as he'd asked M. Madeleine so many years before, be " dismissed in disgrace " -- he committed suicide.

The students show him Javert, bound to a chair, and warn him that if he should be another spy, he too will not live.

However, Javert assures the mayor that Valjean has been arrested recently and will be in court later in the day.

On the eve of the 1832 Paris Uprising, Valjean prepares to go into exile ; Cosette and Marius part in despair ; Éponine mourns the loss of Marius ; Enjolras encourages all of Paris to join the revolution ; Marius decides to join the other students as they prepare for the upcoming conflict ; Javert briefs the soldiers under his command while he reveals his plans to spy on the students ; and the Thénardiers look forward to robbing the corpses of those who will be killed during the coming battle.

As a reward, he asks to be the one to kill the imprisoned Javert, but instead he releases Javert and even gives him his address.

She begs to be let go, but Javert sentences her to six months in prison.

Javert helps Valjean return Marius to his grandfather's house and requests to be brought home to say goodbye to Cosette before being sent back to the galleys, Javert allows it, and when Valjean instinctively looks out the window, Javert is gone.