Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters

The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. (Herbert Lom). In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry b...( read more  read more... )reaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.

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Unrated, 84 min.

Directed by: Terence Fisher

Release Date: June 25, 1962

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  • July 3, 2008
    Solid, horror style retelling of the story.
  • March 28, 2008
    I can't imagine that this is any worse that any other PofO renditions, save of course for the classic, I sure, Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise, and possibly Argento's version. Although it wasn't great, it wasn't bad, and the Phantom did look pretty creepy. Of course you h...( read more)ave the regular gentlemanly attitudes of the characters that are in every Hammer Horror, which I find to be so curious that it holds my attention, even if the story is weak. It doesn't hold a candle to any other Hammer's I've seen, yet maybe a dim night light, as it's the same basic idea. Either way the Phantom is pretty cool, yet the end is somewhat anti climactic, although it leaves you with a killer ending shot.
  • August 20, 2009
    Mad Chief Inspector Dreyfus as The Phantom... can u say, Clouseau?? lol.
  • August 13, 2009
    The phantom of the opera is, a master of the opera, no one like him, but he had serious issues in his live, that make him in that what it is. Excelent story with a lot of suspense.
  • August 1, 2009
    I think that I can safely pass on this much older version.
  • May 16, 2009
    Interesting Hammer version of the classic story.
  • April 6, 2008
    Extrenely weird. Doesn't stay anywhere close to the novel.
  • November 23, 2007
    This was the first slant of the story that I saw. I enjoyed the tale very much.
  • November 23, 2007
    really old new one is better
  • November 16, 2007
    Gave me nightmares but was unbeleivably cool!

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