![]() The film starts at 10:30 and admission is only $5. You’ll have the chance to see it on the big screen this Saturday when it screens at The Hi-Pointe as part of their Classic Film Series. This is certainly a grand production, of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and shot masterfully in Technicolor. The sets and props are extravagant, and the era in which the film is set is shown accurately. Nelson Eddy and Edgar Barrier both play their roles very well. Susanna Foster shines when she is on the opera’s stage, and sparkles when she is offstage. The rest of the film is also well acted, and Claude Rains turns in an excellent performance as the man who becomes the phantom. TBA Erik Christine Daaé Raoul de Chagny Erique Claudin Christine DuBois Raoul DAubert Anatole Garron Biancarolli Professor L. If any characters are missing, please add them. If there is a version that isnt listed here, feel free to add a list of characters from it as well. The opera scenes are well staged, well sung and well-acted. This is a list of characters who appear in various adaptions of The Phantom of the Opera. This film goes more into the “opera life” than the original film version, and viewers not familiar with opera (such as myself) may find themselves enjoying what goes on behind the scenes. This is a film about a phantom creating chaos in an opera house, and the amount of screentime the opera has in this filming seems appropriate. In this filming there is a love triangle between the starlet (Foster), the opera’s leading male singer (Nelson Eddy), and a detective (Edgar Barrier) This love triangle leads to several attempts at humor, but the humor often falls flat. The phantom loves the starlet, and eventually kidnaps her taking her to his underground lair beneath the opera house. ![]() He murders and creates destruction to get his way. A phantom (Claude Rains) stalks the Paris Opera House, and is attempting to get an opera starlet (Susanna Foster) into the spotlight. Monster kids have always felt that it’s too much Opera and not enough Phantom, but the heart of the story remains true to the classic story. Admission is only and the film will be introduced by KMOX Movie Reviewer Harry Hammġ943’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is often criticized for straying too much from the original story, and for having too much focus on the opera. It’s Saturday, October 8th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater this weekend as part of their Classic Film Series. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943) plays on the big screen at St. ![]()
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