The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.


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  • Rupert Julian in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  • Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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  • Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  • Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  • Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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27 April 2005 | Nazi_Fighter_David
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| The pathos of Lon Chaney gave the Phantom its dimension...
Lon Chaney was the first of the long line of Phantoms and the one against whom all his successors had to be measured…

The story, despite all its alternatives, is the familiar one of the musician avoiding the world because of his disfigurement and retreating to a hideout beneath the Opera House, from where he emerges to terrorize singers and audience alike…

He kidnaps a young girl singer – perhaps to teach her to become a great star; certainly because, in his grotesque and pathetic way, he loves her – and carries her off to a boudoir he has prepared far underground…

There was melodrama in plenty: in the first version, for example, two would-be rescuers found themselves trapped in an uncomfortable mirrored room the Phantom had prepared, where they first got a heat treatment and then were flooded…

But, beyond all the heightened effects, it was the pathos of the Phantom underscoring his lonely menace which gave the character a dimension, and the isolation of the captor and his captive, imprisoned to a literal underworld, which gave the suspense of the whole film its power…

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