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Phantom of the Opera is a american film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Lubin released in USA on 27 august 1943 with Nelson Eddy

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Phantom of the Opera
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Released in USA 27 august 1943
Length 1h32
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Horror,    Musical,    Romance
Rating63% 3.197563.197563.197563.197563.19756

Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal musical horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward, loosely based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. The movie is a remake of the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney.

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. The film included choreography by Lester Horton.

Synopsis

Erique Claudin (Claude Rains) had been a violinist at the Paris Opera House for twenty years. However he has been losing the use of the fingers of his left hand, which affects his violin-playing. He is dismissed because of this, the conductor of the opera house assuming that he has enough money to support himself. This is not the case however, for Claudin has spent it all by anonymously funding the music lessons of Christine Dubois (Susanna Foster), a young soprano whom Claudin has secretly fallen in love with. In a desperate attempt to gain money, Claudin tries to get a concerto he has written published. After submitting it and not hearing a response, he becomes worried and returns to the publishers, Maurice Pleyel & Georgette Desjardins, to ask about it. No one there knows what happened to it, and do not seem to care. Claudin persists, but Pleyel rudely tells him to leave and goes back to the etchings he was working on.

Actors

Nelson Eddy

(Anatole Garron)
Susanna Foster

(Christine Dubois)
Claude Rains

(Erique Claudin)
Edgar Barrier

(Raoul D'Aubert)
Frank Puglia

(Villeneuve)
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Universal Monsters

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) The Werewolf (1913) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Performance (1929) The Last Warning (1929) The Will of the Dead Man (1930) The Cat Creeps (1930) Dracula (1931) Drácula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Mummy (1932) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Old Dark House (1932) Boo (1932) The Invisible Man (1933) The Black Cat (1934) Werewolf of London (1935) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Raven (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Night Key (1937) Tower of London (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Invisible Woman (1940) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Black Friday (1940) The Black Cat (1941) The Wolf Man (1941) Horror Island (1941) Man-Made Monster (1941) Invisible Agent (1942) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) Night Monster (1942) The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) The Mad Ghoul (1943) Phantom of the Opera (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Calling Dr. Death (1943) Captive Wild Woman (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) The Climax (1944) Jungle Woman (1944) House of Frankenstein (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Strange Confession (1945) The Frozen Ghost (1945) The Jungle Captive (1945) Pillow of Death (1945) House of Dracula (1945) She-Wolf of London (1946) The Brute Man (1946) The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) House of Horrors (1946) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The Strange Door (1951) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) The Black Castle (1952) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Cult of the Cobra (1955) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) This Island Earth (1955) Tarantula (1955) Revenge of the Creature (1955) Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) The Mole People (1956) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960) Dark Intruder (1965) Mad Monster Party? (1967) Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) Young Frankenstein (1974) Dracula (1979) The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979) The Monster Squad (1987) Darkman (1990) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) House of Frankenstein (miniseries) (1997) The Mummy (1999) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000) The Mummy Returns (2001) Van Helsing (2004) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) House of the Wolf Man (2009) The Wolfman (2010) Frankenweenie (2012) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Dracula Untold (2014) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) The Mummy (2017)

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