#The phantom of the opera 1925 movie#

The keeper of the box does not know who it is, as she has never seen his face.

During the performance, the managers go to Box 5 to see exactly who has taken it. Wednesday evening, Carlotta is ill and Christine takes her place in the opera. Raoul tells her that he thinks someone is playing a joke on her, and she storms off in anger. Christine admits that she has been tutored by a divine voice, the 'Spirit of Music,' and that it is now impossible to stop her career. The following day, in a garden near the Opera House, Raoul meets Christine and asks her to reconsider his offer. Christine is in her dressing room at that moment, speaking to a phantom voice (which the audience sees as a shadow on a wall behind the dressing room.) The voice warns her that she will take Carlotta's place on Wednesday and that she is to think only of her career and her master. She has received a letter from 'The Phantom,' demanding that Christine sing the role of Marguerite the following night, threatening dire consequences if his demands are not met. Carlotta (Virginia Pearson), the prima donna of the Paris Grand Opera, barges into the managers office enraged. The antics of stagehand Florine Papillon (Snitz Edwards) do not amuse Joseph's brother, Simon (Gibson Gowland), who chases him off. Buquet describes a ghastly sight of a living skeleton to the girls, who are then startled by a shadow cast on the wall. Arguing whether or not he is the Phantom, they decide to ask Joseph Buquet, a stagehand who has actually seen the ghost's face. The new managers laugh it off as a joke, but the old management leaves troubled.Īfter the performance, the ballet girls are disturbed by the sight of a mysterious man in a fez (Arthur Edmund Carewe), who dwells in the cellars. As they leave, they tell the new managers of the Opera Ghost, a phantom who asks for opera box #5, among other things. Christine uses to let their relationship get in the way of her career.Īt the height of the most prosperous season in the Opera's history, the management suddenly resign. Raoul visits her in her dressing room during the performance, and makes his intentions known that he wishes for Christine to resign and marry him. Christine has made a sudden rise from the chorus to understudy of the prima donna.

Raoul attends only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) sing. Polis) and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry) are in attendance. The film opens with the debut of the new season at the Paris Opera House, with a production of Gounod's Faust (opera). Plot summary The scenario presented is based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print (see below). Schrock and was directed by Rupert Julian and with supplemental direction by Lon Chaney and Edward Sedgwick.

Clawson, Tom Reed (screenwriter) and Raymond L. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as 'prima ballerina' in the film when she was about 15. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St.

#The phantom of the opera 1925 movie#

The movie remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. It was directed by Rupert Julian and starred Lon Chaney, Sr in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Palais Garnier, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. File:The Phantom of the Opera (1925).webm The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American Silent film horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.