Monday, May 12, 2014

The Phantom of the Opera 1925

This movie is a 1925 silent hoor film created from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera novel from 1910. Lon Chaney, Sr. played the horrifying Phantom that haunts the Paris Opera House causing mayhem and murder trying to make the women he loves a star. Chaney had the freedom to make his own make-up for the Phantom and the self devised make-up for the movie was also kept secret until it premiered.

 

In Paris at the Opera house, a mysterious phantom threatens Carlotta a famous lyric singer forcing her to give up her role for the unknown singer Christine Daae. She meets this mysterious phantom in the catacombs of the Opera. What is he trying to achive? What secret is he hiding?
 
Watch The Phantom of the Opera 1925


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