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This Delta disc is nothing but a bad rip of the old Lumivision laserdisc. Which means the picture won't be as clean as either of the Image DVD versions now available. I love the movie poster that comes with it, but it is a crying shame about how they just flat out STOLE their video source from another company. This might be part of the reason this edition is not available anymore.....
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Whoever put this out has NO shame. It is a direct rip of the Dave Shepard/Kino/Blackhawk Films/Image DVD including the copyrighted music score! Which means the picture quality is the same but you get no extras. Support the people who actually do the work and get either the Image or Image/Milestone DVD and avoid these sleazy rip-offs.
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As a big fan of old horror movies, Phantom of the Opera ranks with Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. Lon Chaney was the master, and I can still remember being scared (sleep)less at the unmasking scene when I was very young. This version of Phantom is the sharpest version I have ever seen. It's a pleasure to watch again.
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Some years ago the Brabants Orkest presented with Carl Davis the Pantom of the Opera. Carl Davis conducted the orchestra synchrone with the movie. It is a very special happening to see a movie this way. So when I saw it was available on DVD the dissision was made easily.
Not only the 1929 version with the score of Carl Davis is available. There is also a reconstruction of the soundtrack of the 1929 speaking version of the movie. Personally I like the silent version with the score from Carl Davis better. And there is the 1925 New York version. Finally there are interviews with people who worked at this movie. So this is a good documentation of this famous movie.
All the strong points of silent cinema are available:
- there is a score specially made for this movie,
- scenes are tinted to indicate place or mood (common practice at that time),
- filmspeed is correct so that you don't have the comedy capers effect,
- there are scenes with the early Techicolor two color system (I think this is the oldest commercially available movie with Technicolor),
- there are hand colored scenes, so you have a red cloack in an otherwise blue tinted frame.
If you are interested in early cinema, this is a good purchase. Recommended!
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Carl Laemmle's screen version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (based on the penny-dreadful by Gaston Leroux), is still a fascinating and riveting screen entertainment, despite being re-made several times (including 2 updates from Universal), not to mention Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking stage musical.
Lon Chaney gives the performance of his career as Erik, the tortured Phantom who roams the sewers and labyrinths of the Paris Opera House. His attentions are piqued by the beautiful young singer Christine Daae (Mary Philbin) though she is already being courted by Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny (Norman Kerry). As passions rise, the young lovers are terrorised by the demonic Phantom as he vows to make Christine his bride...
Lon Chaney turns in a polished performance as Erik (riding high on the success of his legendary turn as Quasimodo in Universal's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME). Mary Philbin's ethereal beauty serves her well as Christine, and Norman Kerry does all he can to overcome the one-dimensional character of Raoul.
The set built for the Paris Opera House was the biggest and most elaborate free-standing set ever assembled for a picture at the time (and still exists, carefully preserved on the Universal backlot). The lavish 'Bal Masque' sequence was shot in the relatively new 2-strip Technicolor process.
The original silent version of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA premiered in 1925, but when the advent of sound occurred in 1929, Laemmle released a new print of PHANTOM with the voices dubbed in (sans Lon Chaney) and new ballet and opera sequences inserted. The film was re-edited by Walter Anthony. The version that most people would have seen is actually a composite of the 1925 and 1929 versions.
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