It is a feast for the eyes almost too rich to consume. The screen is filled with lush color, intricate settings, and stunning visual shots. It was like watching a slightly more suspenseful, and thankfully much shorter, Gone With The Wind. The production aspects of The Phantom of the Opera are stellar. Back then, they were all basically plays featuring drama, romance and mystery. Of course, I was also expecting horror, but I don't know why I was expecting that. For example, the scene where Anatole, our resident phantom, cuts the chandelier loose goes on forever, so long that all suspense just kinda dwindles away and you're stuck watching him saw, and saw, and saw.ĭecent movie, but it left me feeling like maybe I didn't watch the best version out there. Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 American horror film directed by Arthur Lubin, loosely based on Gaston Lerouxs 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and its 1925 film adaptation starring Lon Chaney.Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film stars Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, and was composed by Edward Ward. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Movie Reviews - Cinafilm has 417 reviews of The Phantom of the Opera from movie critics and film fans. I also felt many of the scenes dragged on for way too long. Please take a moment now to pray for these influential people (prayer suggestions). Seriously, half the runtime is literally watching an opera. Faith: Unclear, raised in a Jewish family. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by theatre legend Harold Prince and produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group, is the longest-running show in Broadway history. It was also way more of a musical than I could stomach. Join me for a little jaunt down memory lane to a magical place that is alive and well. This one looks outstanding in Technicolor but is a lot less of a horror than I was expecting. This is the second version of this classic horror, the first being the 1925 silent film. NOTE: There have been many cast changes since these reviews.