As they leave, they tell the new managers of the Opera Ghost, a phantom who is 'the occupant of box No. Christine refuses 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 an interval in 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 Mme. Raoul is there only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé sing. Comte Philippe de Chagny and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny 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. Plot Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Some images exist from the film's promotional materials

The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a 'prima ballerina' in the film when she was about 15 years old. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

The phantom of the opera music boxes