Someone begins to play music in the next room, and he looks up in shock when he hears it. Claudin persists, but Pleyel rudely tells him to leave and goes back to the etchings he was working on.įinally giving up, Claudin stands there for a moment and hangs his head sadly. No one there knows what happened to it, and do not seem to care. After submitting it and not hearing a response, he becomes worried and returns to the publishers, Pleyel & Desjardins, to ask about it. In a desperate attempt to gain money, Claudin tries to get a concerto he has written published. This is not the case however, for Claudin has spent it all by anonymously funding the music lessons of Christine Dubois (Foster), a young soprano with whom Christine's music teacher assumes Claudin has secretly fallen in love. He is dismissed because of this, the conductor of the opera house assuming that he has enough money to support himself. Recently however, he has been losing the use of the fingers of his left hand, which affects his violin-playing. Rains's portrayal of the Phantom, although overshadowed by Chaney's Phantom, is now considered to be one of the main Universal Monsters and is often listed with the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and Gill Man.Įrique Claudin (Rains) / The Phantom has been a violinist at the Paris Opera House for twenty years. It is also the only Universal Monster movie to win an Oscar. The cinematographers were Hal Mohr and W. The original storyline was completely revised and there was no attempt to film the masked ball sequence, although the famous falling of the chandelier was re-enacted on an epic scale, using elaborate camera set-ups. Other than the sets, this remake had little in common with the earlier film. The auditorium set, a replica of the Opéra Garnier interior, created for the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera was reused. The movie is a remake of the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward, loosely based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor.
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