The Phantom Melody (1920)

Directed by

Douglas Gerrard

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 06m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is buried alive in a scheme driven by greed and betrayal. The film follows his struggle to escape and the consequences for those who wronged him.

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What happens

The Phantom Melody is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Douglas Gerrard, and starring Monroe Salisbury, Henry A. Barrows, Ray Gallagher, Charles West and Jean Calhoun. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company on January 27, 1920. The film's "premature burial" plotline tilts it in the direction of being a horror film as well as a melodrama. Director Gerrard emigrated to Hollywood from Ireland in 1913 to become an actor, but quickly gravitated to film directing in 1916 with his The Price of Victory, but gave up directing soon after filming The Phantom Melody. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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