The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Directed by

Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney

Genre

drama film, horror film, silent film, monster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A disfigured man who lives in the catacombs beneath a Paris opera house falls in love with a young singer. He tries to make her a star by terrorizing the opera's staff and performers.

gothicdarktensemelodramatichauntingatmosphericintenseexpressive

What happens

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel of the same name directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, 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-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis and Snitz Edwards. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15 years old. The first cut of the film was previewed in Los Angeles on January 26, 1925. The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the film's distributor Universal Pictures did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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