Throughout the decades since, many have cinematically translated Leroux’s sad, horrifying story, sometimes successfully, others times less so. When Leroux presented the movie-minded man with his novel, The Phantom of the Opera, it was immediately apparent that its story had to be translated to screen. One such example was born out of a vacation taken by Universal Pictures exec Carl Laemmle in France, where he met with crime author Gaston Leroux. For Hollywood, which was growing in popularity and cache with the increasingly efficient studio system, the time was ripe to push cinema to the limits in order to amaze audiences with lavish, jaw dropping productions. Many of the earliest great pictures we produced during this time, with several film auteurs getting their start, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and F. The 1920s represent a defining decade for film, both in the United States and worldwide. The version viewed for the purposes the present review also featured colour-tinted scenes and the infamous opening scene in which a man with a lamp walks through a dark tunnel, which is reportedly footage shot later for the 1930 sound version, but has somehow made it into all existing cuts of the original 1925 film. The following review is based on the silent version from 1925, not the 1930 version that included some dialogue.
Schrock and Bernard McConvilleĭirected by Rupert Julian (uncredited: Edward Sedgwick)
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