The Phantom of The Opera (adaptations) - Film

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  • Das Gespenst im Opernhaus or Das Phantom der Oper (1916): Featuring the Swedish actor Nils Olaf Chrisander (1884–1947) and the Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen (1893–1974, aka Aud Egede Richter). Now a lost film and is only believed to have existed because of references in other media.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Mary Philbin. For this classic silent film Universal Studios created a faithful replica of the Paris Opera House as a setting. The film was reissued in 1929 with sound effects, music and some reshot dialogue sequences (but none with Chaney). The scene in which Erik plays the organ and Christine creeps up behind him to snatch his mask off is often cited by critics and connoisseurs of film art as one of the most memorable moments in the history of film. The make up of Lon Chaney was so surprisingly disfiguring that the Camera operator actually lost focus while shooting the sequence. Indeed, theaters were urged to have smelling salts on hand in case ladies in the audience fainted in horror.
  • Spooks (1930): An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
  • Song at Midnight (Chinese: 夜半歌聲 Ye ban ge sheng) (1937): Featuring Gu Menghe and Hu Ping, directed by Ma-Xu Weibang.
  • Phantom of the Opera (1943): Featuring Claude Rains as the Phantom and the singer Susanna Foster as Christine. This film reused the same Paris Opera studio set as the original silent film and once again features the spectacular scene in which the Phantom causes the chandelier to crash down on the heads of the audience. In this version, however, horror is mostly downplayed in favour of grand operatic spectacle. The Phantom's facial disfigurement is caused by him having acid thrown in his face rather than him being born disfigured as in Leroux's original story. This accidental disfigurement became part of the Phantom legend, and was copied in later film versions.
  • El Fantasma de la Opereta (1954): Featuring Gogó Andreu and Tono Andreu. Bears no similarity to the Leroux novel sans the title.
  • El Fantasma de la Opereta (1959): Featuring German Valdés (Tin Tan) and Pedro de Aguillon.
  • Phantom of the Horse Opera (1961): A Woody Woodpecker cartoon.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1962): Hammer Horror version featuring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears. This version has the Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ - which has become a cultural trope indicating tragic horror. As in the 1943 version the Phantom is disfigured by acid.
  • The Mid-Nightmare, Part One (1962) and Part Two (1963) (Chinese: 夜半歌声-上集 Ye ban ge sheng - shang ji and 下集 xia ji): Remake of the 1937 Chinese film, this time featuring Zhao Lei and Betty Loh Tih.
  • Il Vampiro dell'Opera or The Monster or the Opera (1964): Featuring Giuseppe Addobbati.
  • Wicked, Wicked (1973): Writer/director Richard L. Bare's split-screen horror-comedy which recycles the plot and utilizes a score composed for the 1925 film.
  • Phantom of the Paradise (1974): Also called The Phantom of the Fillmore; a rock musical directed by Brian De Palma.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1983 TV film): Featuring Maximilian Schell and Jane Seymour.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1987): Featuring Aiden Grennell (Cartoon).
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1989): Directed by Dwight H. Little, featuring Robert Englund and Jill Schoelen. This is a rather sadistic and gory version of the story: though in this respect it resembles the original novel more than some more romantic versions. There is a Faustian motif throughout and the film features extracts from Gounod's opera Faust - as in the original novel.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1990 miniseries): Featuring Charles Dance as the Phantom and Teri Polo as Christine. The only version to be shot at the Paris Opera House.
  • Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989): Featuring Derek Rydall.
  • The 1990 remake of the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera: A restored version with soundtrack and new music by Rick Wakeman and narration by Christopher Lee. Starring Lon Chaney, Sr.. 88 Minutes. New musical score replaces the 1925 score. It was sold by Video Treasures on Videotape Copyrighted in 1993. ISBN 1-55529-785-4
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1991): Featuring David Staller and Elizabeth Walsh.
  • O Fantasma da Ópera (1991): Featuring Geiso Amadeu.
  • The Chipmunks - Phantom Of The Rock Opera (1991)
  • The Phantom of the Ritz (1992): Featuring Joshua Sussman.
  • The Phantom Lover (1995): A second remake of the 1937 film, by Hong Kong director Ronny Yu and featuring Leslie Cheung. Title in Chinese is the same as the other versions.
  • Il Fantasma dell'Opera (1998): Directed by Dario Argento, featuring Julian Sands and Asia Argento.
  • Disney released "The Phantom of the Megaplex" (2000).
  • Joel Schumacher's The Phantom of the Opera (2004): Adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart musical, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. Patrick Wilson appears as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny.

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