All I can say is that it’s sometime daunting to review a film that so many esteemed critics have studied, plus I realised that the copy I had was not only of poor quality but not the original version. Buquet describes a ghastly sight of a living skeleton to the girls, who are then startled by a shadow cast on the wall….Īny reader who knows their classic horror will probably wonder why it’s taken me up to now to do a review of the first, and best, version of Gaston Leroux’s oft-adapted tale, considering that I reviewed the inferior Claude Rains remake a while back. Arguing whether or not he is the Phantom, they decide to ask Joseph Buquet, a stagehand who has actually seen the ghost’s face. After the next performance, the ballet girls are disturbed by the sight of a mysterious man in a fez who dwells in the cellars. As they leave, they tell the new managers about the Opera Ghost, who sometimes sits in Box 5, and leave troubled.
At the height of what soon becomes the most prosperous season in the Opera’s history, the management suddenly resign. Comte Philippe de Chagny and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, are in attendance, Raoul attending only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé, whom he wants to resign and marry, sing. It is the new season at the Paris Opera House, with a production of Gounod’s Faust. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Arthur Edmund Carewe, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry Written by: Bernard McConville, Elliott J.
Directed by: Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney, Rupert Julian
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