![]() ![]() As they leave, they tell the new managers of the Opera Ghost, a phantom who is "the occupant of box No. ![]() Christine refuses to let their relationship get in the way of her career.Īt the height of the most prosperous season in the Opera's history, the management suddenly resign. Raoul visits her in her dressing room during an interval in the performance, and makes his intentions known that he wishes for Christine to resign and marry him. Christine has made a sudden rise from the chorus to understudy of Mme. Raoul is there only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé sing. Comte Philippe de Chagny and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny are in attendance. The film opens with the debut of the new season at the Paris Opera House, with a production of Gounod's Faust. Plot Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print. #The phantom of the opera 2004 showtimes registration#In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Some images exist from the film's promotional materials The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 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 picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. I loved it, saw it twice bought the soundtrack and rate it 9 out of 10.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, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The phantom was a mixture of anger/sadness/genius and you could understand why Christine was very weak willed in his presence. It was not apparent who the leading lady would be for a while until the chorus girl Christine was encouraged forward to sing replacing the Diva and was transformed from rags to a Cinderella style dress and sang with a pure beautiful voice and made me feel all magical and warm inside especially when she hit that note at the end!! Anyway the film went on and she was re united with her childhood sweetheart who was very charming and although most say wet, I think was very caring and charming (any girl wants prince charming on a white horse) despite what they say :-) There were lots of dream like scenes to follow and the film heightened emotionally all the way to the end, I've heard the song "Wishing you were somehow here again" but never knew its context, but the song and scene merged beautifully together for a very sentimental moment in the film enhanced by the angel statues covered in misty snow and a very Tim Burton moment. Then the theatre turned to colour and all was sent spinning back in time and the busy backstage frolics of the cast at the Opera House were bought to life. From the black and white opening scene I knew it was going to be visually splendid and from the atmosphere created knew I was in for something dramatic. Having not seen the musical before, and only being familiar with some of the well know songs I had no preconceptions, but was eager to see the film being a lover of all things musical. ![]()
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