Released, Christine meets with Raoul at the annual masked-ball, where the Phantom appears disguised as the " Red-Death". She begs him to let her sing, and he relents, allowing her to visit the surface one last time if she promises not to see Raoul again. Enraged, the Phantom declares she is now his prisoner. As he is preoccupied playing his organ, Christine playfully tears off his mask, revealing his deformed face. The next day, she finds a note from Erik telling her that she must never look behind his mask. She meets the Phantom, who introduces himself as Erik and declares his love Christine faints and he carries her to an underground suite fabricated for her comfort. Christine enters a secret door behind the mirror in her dressing room, descending into the lower depths of the Opera. During the performance, the Phantom drops the chandelier hanging from the ceiling onto the audience, killing people. The following evening, a defiant Carlotta sings. The managers get a similar note, reiterating that if Christine does not sing, they will present Faust in a cursed house. Once again, a note from the Phantom demands Carlotta to say she is ill and let Christine replace her. Simon Buquet then finds the body of his brother, stagehand Joseph Buquet, hanging by a noose and vows vengeance. During the performance, the managers are startled to see, seated in Box 5, a figure who later disappears. That evening, Christine substitutes Carlotta. The Phantom of the Opera, in black and white The Phantom of the Opera, with tinting Raoul says someone is probably playing a joke on her, and she storms off in anger. The following day, Christine reveals to Raoul that she has been tutored by a mysterious voice, the "Spirit of Music," and it is now impossible to stop her career. In Christine's dressing room, a voice tells her she must take Carlotta's place and think only of her career and her master. Carlotta, the prima donna receives a letter from "The Phantom," demanding that Christine replace her the following night, threatening dire consequences if this does not happen. While leaving, they tell the new managers about the Opera Ghost, a phantom who is "the occupant of box No. Raoul wishes for Christine to resign and marry him, but she prioritizes her career over their relationship. Plot Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print.Īt the Paris Opera House, Comte Philippe de Chagny and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny attend a production of Faust, where the latter's sweetheart, Christine Daaé, may sing. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15 years old. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. (Eastman House print, 24 frames per second) (Eastman House print, 20 frames per second)
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