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Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Directed by Arthur Lubin

Horror

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Overview

Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.

Rated NR | Length 89 minutes

Actors

Nelson Eddy | Susanna Foster | Claude Rains | Edgar Barrier | Leo Carrillo | Jane Farrar | J. Edward Bromberg | Fritz Feld | Frank Puglia | Steven Geray | Barbara Everest | Hume Cronyn | Fritz Leiber | Nicki Andre | Gladys Blake | Elvira Curci | Hans Herbert | Kate Drain Lawson | Miles Mander | Rosina Galli | Walter O. Stahl | Paul Marion | Richard Bartell | Edward Biby | Eumenio Blanco | Stanley Blystone | Beatrice Roberts | Belle Mitchell | James Mitchell | Renee Carson | Wheaton Chambers | Lane Chandler | Edward Clark | James Conaty | Paul Cristo | Jack Deery | William Desmond | Helen Dickson | Ernest Golm | Bella Lewitzky | Hank Mann | Anthony Marlowe | Alphonse Martell | Eric Mayne | Robert Robinson | Victor Romito | John Roy | Muni Seroff | Johnny Walsh | Tudor Williams | Marek Windheim

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Claude Rains as another Universal Monster!

There’s a good analogy in this for our present day situation dealing with a pandemic. There’s multiple murders at the opera house so they close it down. The public outcry is “when will they open the opera again?!” The police want to wait until the murderer is apprehended; the public just want to go to the opera even if it means they will be killed. Sound familiar?

I had wanted to view this after seeing Karloff in THE CLIMAX (1944) which was originally meant to be a sequel that was reworked into its own thing despite using the same opera house set and stages at Universal. Given that this movie is a Universal horror flick I’m surprised it took me so long to finally watch it. It’s good!

I don’t quite buy that Claudin (Rains) would necessarily go full psycho after getting the acid in the face but I guess it’s possible. Just seems a bit wild that he’s this introverted older man that goes full on killer but okay!

This movie was scheduled in a KAST watch party today but I found it on Archive.org apparently uploaded from a Blu-ray rip. Looks very nice.

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