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The Phantom of the Opera

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Lon Chaney (Actor, Director), Mary Philbin (Actor), Edward Sedgwick (Director), Rated: Unrated

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One of the greatest horror thrillers of all time this classic silent film features the original restored color sequence.

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Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland
Directors: Lon Chaney, Edward Sedgwick, Ernst Laemmle, Rupert Julian
Writers: Bernard McConville, Elliott J. Clawson, Frank M. McCormack, Gaston Leroux
Format: Multiple Formats, Black & White, NTSC, Silent
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Alpha Video
DVD Release Date: January 22, 2002
Run Time: 93 minutes
Average Customer Review: 292 customer reviews
ASIN: B00005RF2C
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,869 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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T. Casey

Not as good as the British Film Institute Blu Ray

October 23, 2015

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

This review refers to the 2015 Blu Ray disc of "The Phantom of The Opera".

I absolutely love Kino and all the wonderful things they've done for my film collection over the years, so it pains me to say that this isn't a very compelling Blu Ray disc. The print isn't in very good shape, and when transferred to video, the center of the image seems to have been a bit "lifted" from the gate, so the edges are in sharp focus, but the center is a bit blurred.

This alone would have bothered me, but I also have the BFI Blu Ray of the same film (it's an import from Europe), and the image quality on that disc is absolutely stunning. That disc also features a surround-sound orchestral score from Carl Davis, which is much better than either stereo soundtrack on the Kino blu ray (as much as I enjoy the Alloy Orchestra, this score is just run-of-the-mill). In fact, the BFI disc is so good that when I compared the Kino to the BFI just out of curiosity, I ended up watching the whole BFI movie.

Having the film available on the Kino disc in two speeds (20fps and 24fps) sounds great, but the 20fps version suffers from the "stuttering" motion that others have complained about when referring to the earlier Milestone DVD. The motions of people do look more natural, but the stuttering is just too distracting. The BFI blu ray has a wee bit of the stuttering effect, but it's not objectionable.

Both the BFI and Kino versions have one reel of the 1929 sound release that was discovered recently in the Library of Congress. It's really interesting and is of the same quality on both presentations.

The Kino version has a great 53-minute extra that contains a lot of the 1929 audio track to listen to. When appropriate, it's synced to footage from the 1929 film, but for the most part it's just audio. Still worth listening to, though.

Again, I don't like criticizing Kino*, but this disc ain't the one to get. Buy the BFI import from amazon.co.uk if it's still available; you won't regret it. (NOTE: The BFI print is region-free, but it includes a PAL DVD version of the whole package as well, and also a PAL DVD of the "Lon Chaney: Man Of A Thousand Faces" documentary from TCM and Kevin Brownlow. If your bluray player can't handle PAL DVDs, you won't be able to view these two DVDs.)

* my package also contained "Diary of a Lost Girl" from Kino on Blu ray, and that disc is stunning!

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Jonhayashi1

1929 re-release DVD of Lon Chaney's PHANTOM has great music and picture, if only Mary Philbin was better!!

April 16, 2014

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

After a reviewer's review told me that his DVD with the 1929 re-release of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA had lovely colour tinting of the black and white done in 1929 of the film and a great music score composed by Gabriel Thibaudoux for the movie, I ordered this re-release title and I was immediatly delighted by the score, and the silent movie performances such as the frightened ballet dancers with them running in fear of the phantom accompanied by the running music, the comic releif stagehand and the other stagehand, Bouquet with his scarey description of the mysterious Phantom. While most of the actors are not in the same class as Lon Chaney they have good humourous moments and keep the story moving well. And the tinted colours are used to good effect whether it's a night blue for outdoor night scences or a hot red colour for when the Phantom tries to roast the undercover police agent and Christine's boyfriend who loves Christine, the opera singer that the Phantom wants for himself! Whenever rival opera singer Carlotta's stage mother enters a scene the music sounds like, " the General has entered the building!" and plays like a military march which matches the broad gestures of a diva stage mother who is used to getting her own way! When Christine was first spoken to by the Phantom with a melodious sound, according to the title cards, the music used a strange, errie sound witha hypnotic feel and after the Phantom has played his organ the music burst into loud, rising notes that seem to echo the Phantom's mocking laugh after Christine has ripped off his mask and witnessed his gruesome face!

But then Chaney covered his face in dispair and his expression dropped down into a look of sheer pain and sorrow. Lon Chaney had such control over every gesture and expression of not just his face but his whole body! It's not just WHAT he did with his hands but HOW he did it! How he moved from being rejected to a look of wicked glee as he schemed of what he would do next to his pursuers I found so fasinating!! But Mary Philbin's Christine performence so sadly went downhill! While Chaney is so convincing as the Phantom with a tortured soul, Mary as Christine kept clasping her hands repeatedly (how many times did she do that!?) and her attempts at acting frightened led to some pretty bad facial expressions! Her best moment was when she started reaching to pull off Chaney's plastic mask! She slowly moved her hands forward, then pulled her hands back before trying again while her eyes showed she was truly curious as to what his face looked like! She actually had good subtle performance moves there!

But the rest of her movie performance is an embarassment! At times her acting reminded me of "Lucy Ricardo" trying to break into "Ricky's" act in I LOVE LUCY if you know what I mean! She is the "fly in the ointment!" But I enjoyed everyone else! The Masque ball 2 strip techicolour scene I compared to Roger Corman's MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH movie starring Vincent Price! Vincent Price's performence as THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES was clearly modeled after Chaney's PHANTOM! The music added a macabre feeling to the Phantom's entrance as the costumed Red Death complete with a skull face!

The final moment (Spoiler Alert!) showed the Phantom cornered in front of a river and he managed to frighten the angry mob by pretending to have a bomb consealed in his fist! But then he opened his hand to reveal there was nothing there! Chaney laughed as if to say," I fooled you again!" before the mob beat him up and threw him in the river! The Phantom was a tragic trickster and a frightening, sad, rejected man thanks to the performence skills of Lon Chaney!

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G. Edmonson

Great looking blu-ray...

October 1, 2014

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

This blu-ray has three versions of the Phantom of the Opera. It has the original 1925 (114min) version which was copied from a 16mm source, and then two versions of the 1929 reissue with one presented at 24 frames per second(78min) and the other at 20 frames per second(92min). Both of the 1929 films are the same film but run for different lengths because of the variation in the film speeds, however the 24 frames per second film has also been remastered even better than the 20 frames per second film and looks simply amazing, though don't expect all of the scratches and oxidizing markings to be completely removed. This film is lucky to be around at all given the volatile stock which was used for this film and others from this era. The original 1925 film is the roughest looking by far, but also shows the original film in its entirety. The 1929 films were reedited, with other parts refilmed, like a portion of the ballet sequence. The 20 frame per second version also comes with an excellent commentary by Dr. Jon Mirsalis, and an orchestral score by Gabriel Thibaudeau. The 24 frames per second film version comes with Gaylord Carter's organ score or a brand new score by the Alloy Orchestra which is very good, and moody/creepy. The 1929 versions are colour tinted, with the famous "Bal Masque" sequence in Technicolor, and other segments hand colored, which is quite striking and an unexpected surprise. This is an excellent blu-ray which has been wonderfully remastered.

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