![]() Naturally, this sensible advice was ignored by the studios when they hired Rupert Julian to direct. A reader at Universal decided Gaston Leroux‘s 1911 novel would make a popular film, concluding that “If we do it, for God’s sake, let’s not botch it!” – although I believe a more colourful term was used, rather unusual since it was a black-and-white film. The Phantom Of The Opera is what they call a Universal Super Jewel, named that to raise it above the undistinguished low-budget formula films that normally kept the studio in profit. Have no fear of oppressive over-orchestration and cacophonous caterwauling, for this was made in 1925, when the absence of sound technology protected all cinema-goers from such a disagreeable experience. ![]() ![]() This is the first film version of The Phantom Of The Opera (1925), starring that Man Of A Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney Senior. This week I’m extremely pleased to discuss a film that is good – mostly – sometimes. What’s his goal? What’s his secret?” (courtesy IMDB) Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. “At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae.
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