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The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux 's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, [1] causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self ...
The Phantom of the Opera: Directed by Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick. With Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe. A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
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- Horror
- Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle
- 1925-11-15
The Phantom of the Opera, American silent horror film, released in 1925, that starred Lon Chaney in his most famous role. (Read Lon Chaney’s 1929 Britannica essay on makeup.) The Phantom of the Opera. A scene from The Phantom of the Opera (1925), directed by Rupert Julian. The macabre story is based on French author Gaston Leroux ’s novel ...
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Dec 19, 2004 · It has always been a question whether "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925) is a great film, or only a great spectacle. Carl Sandburg, one of the original reviewers, underwent a change of heart between his first Chicago Daily News review (he waited for the Phantom's unmasking "terribly fascinated, aching with suspense") and a reconsideration written a month later ("strictly among the novelties of ...
The Phantom of the Opera. (1925) Directed by Rupert Julian. A former Universal stock player, Lon Chaney was a sensation in Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and two years later The Phantom of the Opera confirmed him as the silent era’s leading interpreter of horror roles. As Erik, the deformed “Phantom” who lurks in ...
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In this silent horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic ...
Summaries. A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta, and forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What's his goal?
