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Spooky, dramatic, stressful and memorable, 'The Phantom of the Opera' is one of those silent pictures that will suck you in and never let you go.

New Zealand director Rupert Julian (who took sole credit in spite of the fact that Chaney and fellow director Edward Sedgwick also did some of the work behind the camera) uses tone to stretch his audience to their outer-limits throughout. His ability to literally transform himself into movie monsters is truly uncanny, especially considering the lack of technical resources in the 1920s. 'The Phantom of the Opera' is one of the finest pictures of the late silent era and Chaney was arguably the greatest performer of the period (of course Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin fans would not agree). As the tale goes, Rains plays the famously disfigured musician who haunts the Paris Opera House and kidnaps the beautiful young soprano whom he has trained.

Academy Award-nominee Claude Rains gives a moving performance in this suspenseful, lyrical update to Gaston Leroux's macabre classic. However, she makes the mistake of unmasking him and that is when he shows his true deviant colors. Purchase Phantom of the Opera (1943) on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Masked, able to play lovely music and say such lovely things, she finds herself strangely attracted to Chaney. He falls in love with the theater's newest leading lady (Mary Philbin) and hatches a plan to take her down to his tomb. The titled character is a badly disfigured man (Lon Chaney) who stays in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House.

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