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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

1943 โ€ข US HMDB
August 12, 1943

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.

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Production: Jack J. Gross (Executive Producer)George Waggner (Producer)
Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein (Screenplay)Eric Taylor (Screenplay)
Music: Edward Ward (Original Music Composer)
Cinematography: W. Howard Greene (Director of Photography)Hal Mohr (Director of Photography)

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Marco Castellini

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A Parisian musician, horribly disfigured after an accident, takes refuge in the cellars of the Paris Opera. From there, he only emerges occasionally to kill those who try to obstruct his daughter's singing career. One of the first films adapted from Gaston Leroux's story, it has the "limitations" typical of most horror films of that period, namely slowness and the absolute lack of blood scenes, but it was 1943 and one could not expect anything different. A classic.

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