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.
