All-Time Sales Rank: 5686
| Overall Rating:    3.75 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. |
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Regarded by many as the first great horror film, and certainly the best of the silent era, the earliest version of The Phantom of the Opera stars Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces. Chaney is Erik, the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Pairs Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his lair, where he is destined to have a showdown with her fiance and the secret police.
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Features:
| Remastered to correct running speed
Essay About Lon Chaney
Chapter Index
Color Tinting to the Original 1925 Specifications
Bal Masque Sequence in Original Technicolor | Video:
| | Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
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| Studio: Image Ent. Production Year: 1925 Release Date: 10/15/1997
Length: 92 mins Rating: NR Chapters: 12
| Packaging: Snap Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: ID4097DSDVD UPC Code: 014381409727
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Overall Rating:    3.75 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. |
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Customer Review
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Best available version - 4.5 out of 5 (11/3/2005)
This is the 1997 Image DVD based on the fine 1993 Laser Disc transfer by David Shepherd. Like most versions, it is the 1929 reissue version of the film from a good 35mm print: the original 1925 version, really a very different film, unfortunately survives only in poor, fragmentary copies. Of the available editions of the more familiar 1929 reissue, this is the best.
The highly-touted 2003 2-disc "Ultimate Edition" from Milestone has amazing extra features, and contains a grainy version of th
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