THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
Definitive film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux tale, and the most faithful to its source. Lon Chaney incarnates the most hideous of his thousand faces as Erik, the masked, skull-faced fiend who stalks the Paris Opera House! Chaney' s legendary unmasking scene set the screen's shock standard for decades to come! Of several scenes photographed in early Technicolor, only the Bal Masque sequence has survived. Notable remakes include a 1943 Technicolor version with Claude Rains, and a 1962 edition by Britain's Hammer Films, featuring Herbert Lom.
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The Phantom of the Opera - The Ultimate Edition (1925 Original Version and 1929 Restored Version)
Phantom of the Opera
Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)