Phantom of the Opera (1943)
92 min - Drama | Horror | MusicI - Technicolor - 27 August 1943 (USA)
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Writers:
Eric Taylor (screenplay), Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay), 3 more credits »
Stars:
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
This is the story of a disfigured violinist who haunts the Paris Opera House. The auditorium set, a replica of the Opéra Garnier interior, created for the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera was reused. Other than the sets, this remake had little in common with the earlier film. The original storyline was completely revised and there was no attempt to film the masked ball sequence, although the famous falling of the chandelier was re-enacted on an epic scale, using elaborate camera set-ups. The cinematographers were Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene. It is also the only Universal Monster movie to win an Oscar. Rains's portrayal of the Phantom, although overshadowed by Chaney's Phantom, is now considered to be one of the main Universal Monsters and is often listed with the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and Gill Man.
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