Has anyone else noticed that whenever a phantom gets unmasked, the Christine character has jerky hand movements like she is trying to be sneaky. Oh, of course he won't notice you trying to do THAT! And then the phantom has to pause for a full minute so the camera can do a close up. Basic unmasking scene for most POTO.
This was the first version of "Phantom" I saw. I was 6 years old and watching it with my papa. I was son the edge of the couch during the unmasking scene when she did I remember My jaw dropped.
I found a Book of this movie around seven years ago. A book wher the plot was condensed a bit and yes, it got rid of the 2nd Raoul. i have to say though even though it was a childrens book it was quite grotesque. the black and whit stills in it really emphasize the lair scenes. it makes them look much more appealing and scary. Hopefully you'll be able to find it.
if you look real closely the phantom has a disfigured face,but when the phantom was about to get crushed he doesnt have a disfigured face.Look sometime.
@KennyClay2000 It does sort of look like that yes, but I think that the lighting just makes the make-up look lighter and harder to see in that shot. If you think about it, it would be pretty silly for them to film the scene in two parts and forget to re-apply the make-up. :P That would be just downright sloppy of them.
Haven't actually seen this film, so I won't watch the whole review yet. Rains was in an amazing number of great Golden Age Hollywood movies. What an actor and a great star as well.
This Phantom of the Opera, the Charles Dance Phantom of the Opera, and the Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera are my favorites! They have great stories, cute guys, and it just all seems right!
One of the things I really like about this version is it's the only adaptation where Christine essentially chooses Erik over Raoul (unlike you count LND, but I don't!)
At the end, Christine jilts both Raouls in favour for her music career as it's what Erique would have wanted. Good for her!
@AngelofMusic1416 *shrugs* Dunno. I can be kinda ditsy sometimes, so I say (or write) the first thing that comes to my mind. It can cause problems...
ANNAUAUGE i2 whatever you are Im not history god im a christian but we know now wHAT YOU ARE with your hATE. Your ant God. Youre a product of Satan you entity. get a life leave dont return, you shamed yourself here. dont let the door hit you on the way out she he. And rest assure ILL BE BACK if you force my hand. Just try me. This film is my favorite. Ill capitalize your hATE if i could. mark hATE on this persons head. til next time when we meet. I got chandelier for you to see stupid.. TOMK
Folks It looks like ill be retutrning to put this filthy thing called ANNAUSAGii2 out of commission, this person is demented sadly like others who torment me daily over rocknroll videos i critque. she thinks shes funny she isnt. capitalizsing is not an issue.its her excuse to spread her HATE.her webpage is weird.check it out. but im braced for the long duration.lets hope she he goes away. it aint funny anymore.this POTO 1943 is immortal without he she's stupidity. what a rectum she he is.TOM
annausuagei2 YOU Rotton skum get off this site,you shame CLAUDE RAINS & POTO.You I can take care of here.Capitalizing accents my POINT including the point on your HEAd girl or boy20 freak. hey people look at this creeps weird webpage. I love this film but the comments made by this idiot here as well as the narrator knocking this clip insults this great film. EVERYONE I APOLOGIZE again for this tastless thoughtless piece of s..SH..TOMKES & ill be back if warrented. GET A LIFE SKUM
Annausag12 are you JOKING? If not its obvious why i use CAPTITALS to highlight in bold a POINT im making. This is America.people been doing that for YEARS. This is sbout PHANTOM 43 with CR right? Lets keep it that way. Im not the subject here. Youre bellyaching over petty stuff. Sorry but thats life. no need to reply just heed the advise of a man who is film historisn on old horror films long before you came to be. IM HISTORY. Oh i did it again I did no no i CAPITALIZED. Get a life kid. TOMK
Folks did hear the GUY in this video bellyache because the CHANDELIER SCENE took too long.? He's no director. THIS sci fi horror film historian who knew some of actors from this CLASSC including NELSON EDDY can tell you, this is realoistic, it takes time for suspence to buildup to bring down that chandelier. WHAT A scene. THE CHANDELIER SCENE UNFORGETTABLE. Thios film is a classic of highest order. Academy Award winner. I can see why. RAINS at his BEST EVER. Thanks TOMK
Im the biggest fan of PHANTOM 1943. CLAUDE RAINS supreme the CHANDELIER scene beyond all comprehension great COLOR musis and cast. the ACID SCENE unforgettable. This horror film historian who knew many horror greats can tell you POTO 1943 is a MEGAHIT brilliantly staged superbly played out. we need more shockers like this these days. ah we had actors. RAINS at his develish BEST. Ill review all these classic horror gems and with pride. LIVE ON POTO 1943 FOREVER. Thanks a million Claude. TOMK
"She must have died by the power of the Karloff eyes!!!!" I loled for a long time after that!
I am enjoying your take on the "Phantom" movies. I've seen the Chaney, Rains, Lom, Englund, Dance, animated and stage versions and the 2004 movie of the stage version. There are a few I have left to see, but I know that I will soon! Thank you for such honest and knowledgable reviews for us phans out there, especially those of us who love the story and know there are others than the 2004 movie!
I wouldn't actually say they deleted ALL references to Claudin being Christine's father. If you notice at the end when he's playing the song for her, you see her eyes widen as if she's putting two and two together...
Okay, so it's light on horror, but I did enjoy it. I really felt sorry for Claude listening to him howl as his face was destroyed. Basil Rathbone was excellent!
this one is nice for re useing the orgonal theatre, BUT the fate of the theatre in the future is sad . heres the story htch cock needed the stage for filming so due to sound he removed the chanelier and celing of the opera,.
for his later projects he removed the stage for no aparent reoson at all.
THEN the seats were removed and the new ground was installed, and filled the ground two feet so the lower boxes now seem to be underground. then a short lived plack was installed for chaney, gone
The Claude Rains version is cute, a word which shouldn't really apply to Phantom. Susan Foster does have an amazing voice though, and Claude Rains has a lovely speaking voice. This film, like many other versions I have to enjoy as its own story loosely based on Lerouxs novel. As such its fun to watch every now and then. I have never seen or heard of these spin-offs. Perhaps Ill look them up sometime.
Sadly, I've never seen this version, which is quite a pity for a phan like me...but it seems like something I'd like. Good review. Oh God, two Raouls. Wachout. And good Lord, how is that note even possible? Wow. She's a good singer...Claud seems like a pretty good Phantom, from what I've seen, anyhow. Thank you for adding this video. :)
Thanks for that great review! I'll be certain to look at the next few. Thanks for your honesty once again, do you notice how much is borrowed from different Phantom films or films losely based on the Phantom like the 1998 verison borrowing the psychological disfigurement from "The climax". I wish Basil Rathbone could have been the Phantom in 1943 film. He woul've been so much better than Rains. Funny how these things happen.
And about the audio version... I liked that one too but I missed hearing Claude's voice. Not saying Rathbone was or anything, because he was good, it just wasn't the same.
I wonder if anyone knew that Jane Farrar , who played Carlotta in the 1943 version was, in fact, the niece of one of the most famous opera divas in history, Geraldine Farrar. Ironic, isn't it?
Omg what can be worst then that attrasicty. The Argento version is like getting raped to the piont where you want to stab your eyes out and i haven't actualy seen the movie but a review like this on youtube of it.
about the whole getting the piano in the lair thing, in the script there is a scene that comes after Erique jumps into the sewer in which he floats down the sewer and finds the lair already furnsihed with a piano and bed and also the skeletons of soilders from the second french revelotion with a bombed wall, but they cut it because they didn't want a war reference.
Thats interesting, I never heard that before. Not sure why the soldiers would have a piano in the sewers anyway, but I guess it sort of makes sense...
I doubt there was any homoerotic love meant, merely comedy gone bad. I like 1943 version. It has two Raoul's and neither gets Christine, so it's final laughs for Phantom. Also I think Claude Rains was great in the role. Great work again! But what, a Phantom film worse than Dario Argento version? Is that even possible?
PhantomReviewer, I don't think that either Raoul and Anatole had any feelings towards the other at the end. I think they went off as two men who both commiserated that they were jilted by the same woman that they both cared deeply about. I personally don't like the Christine in this version, even though she is a blonde and she could sing operatic music (which are big pluses), the ending killed it. In the book, Christine values a real life with a husband and family more than over a career.
I'm pretty sure PhantomReviewer only meant the homoerotic thing as a joke and a dig at the vacuous characterization of those two. I kind of like this Christine and love that she recognizes her suitors for imbeciles and leaves them both in the dust. If you want to have a "real life" with a husband, don't settle for just any numbskull who shows an interest!
Basil Rathbone makes for a great Phantom - very intense and theatrical. Interesting that a lot of the lines cut from Hoffenstein's screenplay made it into the radio version. And all bow down to THE POWER OF THE KARLOFF EYES!! Another actor I'd have liked to see as the Phantom. And I really, really hope it's not going to be Hammer's version that you call the worst...
It's nice to know I'm not the only person who gets tired of Nelson Eddy's singing. I read that another reason they kept reducing the Phantom's makeup was out of sensitivity to injured WWII vets returning home. It was 1943 after all. Where on earth did you find a recording of that radio broadcast? WHERE DO YOU FIND THESE THINGS?! And how could rat sex boy not be the worst Phantom ever?
Wonderful review, as usual! Now I just have to guess what the worst adaptation ever could be...If it's not the non-disfigured one or the Schumacher one, what could it be?
I thought so too, but it's surprisingly loyal to the Leroux book, the background music was nice and the guy who did the Phantom's voice was ok. Probably the only things that would make it rotten would be the poor animation and everyone else's bad acting.
Yeah, I also thought the cartoon was pretty loyal to the book. I totally agree the animation and acting suck for the most part. I enjoyed the Phantom though, everyone else kinda sucked. So what other version could it be?
the suspense is killing me! when do u plan to have it out???!!! i want to know!!!! is it in our languge? will u at least give me some hints so i can look it up (yeah im werid like that)!
I have a question about how u make ur reviews. sometimes u have 2 parts and do u make the whole review at one time or make one part and make the other another time?
I record it in one go but if it looks like its going to be longer than 10 mins I break it in two, upload the first part then edit the next, so you guys arent kept waiting for too long.
Next review should be ready later today, hopefully.
at 0:10, you say ''Neddy Elson'' not Nelson Eddy. Just pointing that out. ;D
truepixartronphan 1 day ago
Has anyone else noticed that whenever a phantom gets unmasked, the Christine character has jerky hand movements like she is trying to be sneaky. Oh, of course he won't notice you trying to do THAT! And then the phantom has to pause for a full minute so the camera can do a close up. Basic unmasking scene for most POTO.
WinxJedi 1 week ago
This was the first version of "Phantom" I saw. I was 6 years old and watching it with my papa. I was son the edge of the couch during the unmasking scene when she did I remember My jaw dropped.
dylantiger2 2 months ago
"The POWER of the Karloff eyes!" That bit cracked me up!
angelsprotegee 2 months ago 2
"Anatole, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." ;)
KatyHallow 4 months ago 2
lullaby of the bells is so great it annoys my sister. Dont ask
ohfilms1 5 months ago
@ohfilms1 why does it annoy your sister? Lol no serously WHY?
pepe10282002 3 months ago
@pepe10282002 beats me
ohfilms1 3 months ago
Karloff gave that woman a Vulcan death grip... surely he could've passed for a Vulcan in his time?
MyAction5000 6 months ago
thats so strange .. is it jut me or the chandelier crash looks like 1990's CGI
ThePhantomofYT101 7 months ago
I found a Book of this movie around seven years ago. A book wher the plot was condensed a bit and yes, it got rid of the 2nd Raoul. i have to say though even though it was a childrens book it was quite grotesque. the black and whit stills in it really emphasize the lair scenes. it makes them look much more appealing and scary. Hopefully you'll be able to find it.
AlcoFan2010 1 year ago
if you look real closely the phantom has a disfigured face,but when the phantom was about to get crushed he doesnt have a disfigured face.Look sometime.
KennyClay2000 1 year ago
@KennyClay2000 It does sort of look like that yes, but I think that the lighting just makes the make-up look lighter and harder to see in that shot. If you think about it, it would be pretty silly for them to film the scene in two parts and forget to re-apply the make-up. :P That would be just downright sloppy of them.
QuinnthePrincess 1 year ago
Haven't actually seen this film, so I won't watch the whole review yet. Rains was in an amazing number of great Golden Age Hollywood movies. What an actor and a great star as well.
DOMuricu 1 year ago
This Phantom of the Opera, the Charles Dance Phantom of the Opera, and the Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera are my favorites! They have great stories, cute guys, and it just all seems right!
CelticTears101 1 year ago
When Susana Foster sings, it reminds me of Snow White.
godzilla964 1 year ago 5
@godzilla964 me too! only it's not annoying and highpitched and squeaky
CelticTears101 1 year ago
One of the things I really like about this version is it's the only adaptation where Christine essentially chooses Erik over Raoul (unlike you count LND, but I don't!)
At the end, Christine jilts both Raouls in favour for her music career as it's what Erique would have wanted. Good for her!
LerouxsPhantom 1 year ago
Basil Rathbone would have been a fantastic Phantom in a full-length feature.
jazzandmint 1 year ago
Thank you so much. This is my favorite version of the Phantom of the Opera.
RosesNightengales 1 year ago
I´m a HUGHE "Phan". I love Leroux novel. And i enjoyed Hammer version. But i really (and i mean REALLY) hate this movie, from the begining to end.
Kikefriki 1 year ago
@Kikefriki No, this movie hates you.
JudgeMagisterDelita 1 year ago
@JudgeMagisterDelita Maybe in Soviet Union.
Kikefriki 1 year ago
I want to know: If only HALF of the Phantom's face is deformed, why does he wear a FULL mask? It doesn't make any sense, at least to me.
lolkittehs34 1 year ago
@lolkittehs34 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's because it was the only mask he could find. =P
AngelofMusic1416 1 year ago
@AngelofMusic1416 *shrugs* Dunno. I can be kinda ditsy sometimes, so I say (or write) the first thing that comes to my mind. It can cause problems...
lolkittehs34 1 year ago
"Everything I've done has been for you!" Whoa, suddenly he's Jareth?
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ANNAUAUGE i2 whatever you are Im not history god im a christian but we know now wHAT YOU ARE with your hATE. Your ant God. Youre a product of Satan you entity. get a life leave dont return, you shamed yourself here. dont let the door hit you on the way out she he. And rest assure ILL BE BACK if you force my hand. Just try me. This film is my favorite. Ill capitalize your hATE if i could. mark hATE on this persons head. til next time when we meet. I got chandelier for you to see stupid.. TOMK
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Folks It looks like ill be retutrning to put this filthy thing called ANNAUSAGii2 out of commission, this person is demented sadly like others who torment me daily over rocknroll videos i critque. she thinks shes funny she isnt. capitalizsing is not an issue.its her excuse to spread her HATE.her webpage is weird.check it out. but im braced for the long duration.lets hope she he goes away. it aint funny anymore.this POTO 1943 is immortal without he she's stupidity. what a rectum she he is.TOM
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annausuagei2 YOU Rotton skum get off this site,you shame CLAUDE RAINS & POTO.You I can take care of here.Capitalizing accents my POINT including the point on your HEAd girl or boy20 freak. hey people look at this creeps weird webpage. I love this film but the comments made by this idiot here as well as the narrator knocking this clip insults this great film. EVERYONE I APOLOGIZE again for this tastless thoughtless piece of s..SH..TOMKES & ill be back if warrented. GET A LIFE SKUM
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Annausag12 are you JOKING? If not its obvious why i use CAPTITALS to highlight in bold a POINT im making. This is America.people been doing that for YEARS. This is sbout PHANTOM 43 with CR right? Lets keep it that way. Im not the subject here. Youre bellyaching over petty stuff. Sorry but thats life. no need to reply just heed the advise of a man who is film historisn on old horror films long before you came to be. IM HISTORY. Oh i did it again I did no no i CAPITALIZED. Get a life kid. TOMK
tomkes100 2 years ago
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So there's no way of making a point without capitalizing words?
Oh, sorry, I forgot. I'm not amazing enough to speak with a history god like you. <_<
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Folks did hear the GUY in this video bellyache because the CHANDELIER SCENE took too long.? He's no director. THIS sci fi horror film historian who knew some of actors from this CLASSC including NELSON EDDY can tell you, this is realoistic, it takes time for suspence to buildup to bring down that chandelier. WHAT A scene. THE CHANDELIER SCENE UNFORGETTABLE. Thios film is a classic of highest order. Academy Award winner. I can see why. RAINS at his BEST EVER. Thanks TOMK
tomkes100 2 years ago
tomkes100:
I respect your opinion and all but WHAT is it with THESE random CAPSLOCK'D raped WORDS?
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Im the biggest fan of PHANTOM 1943. CLAUDE RAINS supreme the CHANDELIER scene beyond all comprehension great COLOR musis and cast. the ACID SCENE unforgettable. This horror film historian who knew many horror greats can tell you POTO 1943 is a MEGAHIT brilliantly staged superbly played out. we need more shockers like this these days. ah we had actors. RAINS at his develish BEST. Ill review all these classic horror gems and with pride. LIVE ON POTO 1943 FOREVER. Thanks a million Claude. TOMK
tomkes100 2 years ago
"She must have died by the power of the Karloff eyes!!!!" I loled for a long time after that!
I am enjoying your take on the "Phantom" movies. I've seen the Chaney, Rains, Lom, Englund, Dance, animated and stage versions and the 2004 movie of the stage version. There are a few I have left to see, but I know that I will soon! Thank you for such honest and knowledgable reviews for us phans out there, especially those of us who love the story and know there are others than the 2004 movie!
sarahisavampire 2 years ago 7
"...their unspoken homoerotic love". LMAO!!
datalal624 2 years ago 30
The "opera" scenes in The Climax were more as operettas.
Usemeordie 2 years ago
I wouldn't actually say they deleted ALL references to Claudin being Christine's father. If you notice at the end when he's playing the song for her, you see her eyes widen as if she's putting two and two together...
JoelandtheBots 2 years ago 5
Aww, Claude Rains is so adorable in this movie!I think this is one of my favorites :)
PhantomInTraining 2 years ago 7
I miss Susanna Foster
CodysPivotShorts 2 years ago 7
Okay, so it's light on horror, but I did enjoy it. I really felt sorry for Claude listening to him howl as his face was destroyed. Basil Rathbone was excellent!
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Erik's around 40, silly. Not 50. =3
PhantomBrick 2 years ago
I love this movie, but I must confess, your bit about the grand piano floating through the catacombs cracked me up! Well done :)
TheRockettt 2 years ago 11
as claude rains is, hoooolllllyyy crap, Mr. Rathbone, such the perfect voice (and he was always played bad guys like he really enjoyed doing so)
YanSui01 2 years ago
This is a great review but i must admit I love nelson eddy! ^-^
AngelKittenVicki 2 years ago
This is a great review.
But I must admit I'm favoriting solely for the BasilRathboneasthePhantom!Goodness. :D
Eriksoneandonly 2 years ago
When I heard the Basil Rathbone version I kept picturing him as Sherlock Holmes with facial scars.
QuinnthePrincess 2 years ago 2
YES.
Eriksoneandonly 2 years ago
this one is nice for re useing the orgonal theatre, BUT the fate of the theatre in the future is sad . heres the story htch cock needed the stage for filming so due to sound he removed the chanelier and celing of the opera,.
for his later projects he removed the stage for no aparent reoson at all.
THEN the seats were removed and the new ground was installed, and filled the ground two feet so the lower boxes now seem to be underground. then a short lived plack was installed for chaney, gone
thecopykidofthestarz 3 years ago
That sequel really looks like a horrible movie.
Claude Rains was a great Phantom.
ThePhantomOfTheOpry 3 years ago
The Claude Rains version is cute, a word which shouldn't really apply to Phantom. Susan Foster does have an amazing voice though, and Claude Rains has a lovely speaking voice. This film, like many other versions I have to enjoy as its own story loosely based on Lerouxs novel. As such its fun to watch every now and then. I have never seen or heard of these spin-offs. Perhaps Ill look them up sometime.
LerouxFan 3 years ago
check out those veins when the chanderlier falls!! creepy!! xxx
christinedaae87 3 years ago
is this claude rains talking?
emoviebuff87 3 years ago
do you have a copy of the sequwell?
if you do could you post it coz id like to see it
canelongno1 3 years ago
I'd pick Claude over the two Raouls anyday.
PipamirSolo 3 years ago 3
which version was the creepy long-haired phantom from?
NatashaNabokov 3 years ago
The 98 version....
Hasselhoffhater 3 years ago
Maybe it was already down there? The Piano I mean :)
MichaelCrawfordsFan 3 years ago
Claude Rains is my favorite Phantom. Well, movie phantom anyways. RIP Claude Rains.
MichaelCrawfordsFan 3 years ago 3
I think it would be cool if you did the fantasm dell'opera (the one where the phantom isn't deformed) He's kinda cute with that long blonde hair...
phantomsmusic2009 3 years ago
Whatever "cuteness" Julian Sands' Phantom has is killed by his disturbing romantic love for vermin.
TheShadowyPhantom 3 years ago 4
Ew...I never saw the movie...that must really stink for him...
phantomsmusic2009 3 years ago
Actually, as I recall, he really rather enjoyed the attentions he received from the rats.
TheShadowyPhantom 3 years ago
Sadly, I've never seen this version, which is quite a pity for a phan like me...but it seems like something I'd like. Good review. Oh God, two Raouls. Wachout. And good Lord, how is that note even possible? Wow. She's a good singer...Claud seems like a pretty good Phantom, from what I've seen, anyhow. Thank you for adding this video. :)
missadeline22 3 years ago
where is basil rathbone,when we need him?
yingwudaying 3 years ago 2
Thanks for that great review! I'll be certain to look at the next few. Thanks for your honesty once again, do you notice how much is borrowed from different Phantom films or films losely based on the Phantom like the 1998 verison borrowing the psychological disfigurement from "The climax". I wish Basil Rathbone could have been the Phantom in 1943 film. He woul've been so much better than Rains. Funny how these things happen.
lshield1 3 years ago
All in all, it seems like a version worth looking for though I LOVED Rathbone as Erique much MUCH more.
MrsLonChaney 3 years ago
He seems like he was far too gentle to be the Phantom...
Keepseeker 3 years ago
Another fantastic review, you seem to be reading my thoughts!!
ShakespeareOfBorg 3 years ago
And about the audio version... I liked that one too but I missed hearing Claude's voice. Not saying Rathbone was or anything, because he was good, it just wasn't the same.
LadyDragonbane 3 years ago
For it's flaws and lack of "Phantomness" I love this movie. It's at the top of my list.
LadyDragonbane 3 years ago
Woah...that one opera scene you showed us reminded me of a really old Disney movie...
bugstomper123 3 years ago
I wonder if anyone knew that Jane Farrar , who played Carlotta in the 1943 version was, in fact, the niece of one of the most famous opera divas in history, Geraldine Farrar. Ironic, isn't it?
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago
Oh god, I can't wait for your Dario Argento Review.
Please, give us all a good laugh at it, I can't wait to see what you do with it!!
clamp2005 3 years ago
Omg what can be worst then that attrasicty. The Argento version is like getting raped to the piont where you want to stab your eyes out and i haven't actualy seen the movie but a review like this on youtube of it.
I can't wait to see that review
RebelFounderOdogoo 3 years ago
about the whole getting the piano in the lair thing, in the script there is a scene that comes after Erique jumps into the sewer in which he floats down the sewer and finds the lair already furnsihed with a piano and bed and also the skeletons of soilders from the second french revelotion with a bombed wall, but they cut it because they didn't want a war reference.
phantomzeroex 3 years ago
Thats interesting, I never heard that before. Not sure why the soldiers would have a piano in the sewers anyway, but I guess it sort of makes sense...
PhantomReviews 3 years ago 3
Worse than the Argento version? I gotta see this. :D
marissamayhembanners 3 years ago
I doubt there was any homoerotic love meant, merely comedy gone bad. I like 1943 version. It has two Raoul's and neither gets Christine, so it's final laughs for Phantom. Also I think Claude Rains was great in the role. Great work again! But what, a Phantom film worse than Dario Argento version? Is that even possible?
kriitikko 3 years ago
PhantomReviewer, I don't think that either Raoul and Anatole had any feelings towards the other at the end. I think they went off as two men who both commiserated that they were jilted by the same woman that they both cared deeply about. I personally don't like the Christine in this version, even though she is a blonde and she could sing operatic music (which are big pluses), the ending killed it. In the book, Christine values a real life with a husband and family more than over a career.
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure PhantomReviewer only meant the homoerotic thing as a joke and a dig at the vacuous characterization of those two. I kind of like this Christine and love that she recognizes her suitors for imbeciles and leaves them both in the dust. If you want to have a "real life" with a husband, don't settle for just any numbskull who shows an interest!
SloeEyedDoe 3 years ago
Basil Rathbone makes for a great Phantom - very intense and theatrical. Interesting that a lot of the lines cut from Hoffenstein's screenplay made it into the radio version. And all bow down to THE POWER OF THE KARLOFF EYES!! Another actor I'd have liked to see as the Phantom. And I really, really hope it's not going to be Hammer's version that you call the worst...
ImhotepsAshes 3 years ago 2
Absolutely not, I LOVE the Hammer version. I give it a very positive review, check out my channel.
PhantomReviews 3 years ago
Just when I thought we were finally gonna hear about the Dario version, you lie again! Oh well....least that was a good review, keep it up!
Hasselhoffhater 3 years ago
It's nice to know I'm not the only person who gets tired of Nelson Eddy's singing. I read that another reason they kept reducing the Phantom's makeup was out of sensitivity to injured WWII vets returning home. It was 1943 after all. Where on earth did you find a recording of that radio broadcast? WHERE DO YOU FIND THESE THINGS?! And how could rat sex boy not be the worst Phantom ever?
SloeEyedDoe 3 years ago
Wonderful review, as usual! Now I just have to guess what the worst adaptation ever could be...If it's not the non-disfigured one or the Schumacher one, what could it be?
TheITinFIT 3 years ago
That's what I'm trying to figure out too. The cartoon one maybe?
shmoogle14 3 years ago
I thought so too, but it's surprisingly loyal to the Leroux book, the background music was nice and the guy who did the Phantom's voice was ok. Probably the only things that would make it rotten would be the poor animation and everyone else's bad acting.
TheITinFIT 3 years ago
Yeah, I also thought the cartoon was pretty loyal to the book. I totally agree the animation and acting suck for the most part. I enjoyed the Phantom though, everyone else kinda sucked. So what other version could it be?
shmoogle14 3 years ago
Yeston/Kopit miniseries perhaps? I saw parts of it and thought it was okay, but everyone has a different opinion.
TheITinFIT 3 years ago
OMG!!! I completely forgot about that one. yeah, I thought it was alright.
shmoogle14 3 years ago
Well as long as they have a good phantom the rest :althought it shouldn't: can suck.
RebelFounderOdogoo 3 years ago
You'll never guess. I dont think hardly anyone has even heard of it, let alone seen it...
PhantomReviews 3 years ago
Is it the non ALW musical production that is on youtube?
Hasselhoffhater 3 years ago
That Yeston/Kopit miniseries is floating around youtube somewhere.
VictoriaWinters1991 3 years ago
And it's oh so good.
jarvisel 3 years ago
the suspense is killing me! when do u plan to have it out???!!! i want to know!!!! is it in our languge? will u at least give me some hints so i can look it up (yeah im werid like that)!
DrNoYes9 3 years ago
It should be out by Friday (maybe tommorow if I work hard!), and it is a foreign version. That's all I'm giving away.
PhantomReviews 3 years ago
I have a question about how u make ur reviews. sometimes u have 2 parts and do u make the whole review at one time or make one part and make the other another time?
DrNoYes9 3 years ago
I record it in one go but if it looks like its going to be longer than 10 mins I break it in two, upload the first part then edit the next, so you guys arent kept waiting for too long.
Next review should be ready later today, hopefully.
PhantomReviews 3 years ago
"She jilts them both, leaving the two men to realize their unspoken homoerotic love" lol That made my day, keep up the good work.
gizmobizness1 3 years ago 3