:40:01
Even Erique's organ requiem
sounded contrived,
:40:04
having been ad-libbed
by staff composer Herman Stein,
:40:08
asked to strike some chords for what
he was told was only a sound check.
:40:20
Chaney's soul remained
a private mystery.
:40:25
Do you have to pray like that?
:40:28
I wouldn't know how
to mean it any other way.
:40:31
Cut!
:40:33
Even a bargain-basement unmasking
generated excitement,
:40:36
and inspired a new Phantom.
:40:38
The never-produced 1957 script
confronted the ghosts of World War Il,
:40:44
the Phantom a dancer
named Carlo Volpurno,
:40:46
scarred by Mussolini's Fascists.
:40:49
The spirit of Lon Chaney
lived on at Universal.
:40:52
There's a great new joke
going around school.
:40:55
Don't step on that spider-
it might be Lon Chaney.
:40:59
Very funny.
:41:00
In the 1950s, you couldn't step
on that spider-it stepped on you.
:41:07
It seemed as if The Phantom
would never be remade. And then...
:41:11
They're going to reopen the Opera.
At last we will sing...
:41:14
You are wrong, monsieur.
I'm sorry, Christine.
:41:16
They are going to reopen the Opera,
but without you.
:41:31
But box five remained a problem.
:41:34
Why is that box empty over there?
:41:39
There are have been complaints.
:41:41
- Complaints?
- Voices. People do not like to sit there.
:41:45
Are you trying to tell me it's haunted?
:41:48
Director Terence Fisher,
fresh from Hammer Films' triumphs
:41:52
The Curse of Frankenstein
and Horror of Dracula, was at the helm.
:41:56
Like most films that he directed, he didn't
have any say in choosing the subject.