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Crew: Book Author
Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver
Synopsis: One of the most popular stage musicals in the history of Broadway and London's West End makes its long-awaited arrival on the motion-picture screen in this lavish adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher. Christine (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful and gifted young woman who longs to join the company of Read More
Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich
Actors: Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano, Nadia Rinaldi, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
Synopsis: In keeping with the his cult reputation, Italian filmmaker Dario Argento's take on Gaston Leroux's enduring Gothic tale of terror and obsession features plenty of sex and graphic, high-tech gore (although hard-core Argento purists may find the splatter scenes rather sparse). Unlike other Read More
Crew: Short Story Author
Synopsis: In the grand tradition of Britain's Hammer low-budget horror films of the '60s, this Gothic and gory chiller is the third screen version of Gaston Leroux's tale The Wax Museum. The prologue is set in turn-of-the-century Paris at New Years. Just as the bells ring out, a young sleeping couple are Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ian Richardson, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Charles Dance
Synopsis: This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's indefatigable "grand guignol" piece The Phantom of the Opera stars British actor Charles Dance as Erik the Phantom. This adaptation by playwright Arthur Kopit soft-pedals the horrific elements of the story to concentrate on the love the tragic Erik bears toward Read More
Actors: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Lawrence
Synopsis: Gaston Leroux's classic tale of love and suspense gets a face-lift in this horror story loosely adapted from Leroux's novel. Christine (Jill Schoelen) is a young classical vocalist who, in the midst of performing a recently discovered piece by an obscure composer, is struck on the head by a Read More
Synopsis: In this horror comedy, the new owner of the beautiful old Ritz theater is in the process of renovating it when he discovers that beneath the stage lives the evil, enraged spirit of a teen who was burned and disfigured during a drag race in the mid '50s. Afterward, he took to living in the Ritz and Read More
Actors: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough, Edward de Souza
Synopsis: This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts. Instead of Paris, the action takes place at the Royal Opera House in London. The Phantom (Herbert Lom) is a facially disfigured musician/composer who had his opera stolen by a Read More
Actors: Jean Richard, Raymond Bussières
Synopsis: Originally a character in a Gaston Leroux novel, Cheri-Bibi was transformed into a popular French comic-strip character in the 1930s. The character was also featured in two films, the second of which was in 1955. Jean Richard plays the title character, a born loser who undergoes plastic surgery in Read More
Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Serge Reggiani, Lucien Nat
Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Janine Darcey, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Renoir
Actors: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Jane Farrar, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Hume Cronyn
Synopsis: This Technicolor retelling of the Gaston Leroux "grand guignol" classic The Phantom of the Opera has a little more opera than phantom, but that's because the stars are soprano Susannah Foster and tenor Nelson Eddy. Claude Rains carries the acting honors on his shoulders, playing a pathetic Read More
Actors: J. Carrol Naish, John Shepperd, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco, Bert Roach
Synopsis: A remake of the 1927 horror melodrama The Wizard (which, alas, no longer exists), 20th Century-Fox's Dr. Renault's Secrets packs a real wallop in its brisk 58-minute running time. The scene is a remote French village, where the murder of drunken tourist Austin (Jack Norton) coincides with the Read More
Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Mila Parély, Louis Jouvet, Fernand Gravey, Vladimir Sokoloff
Synopsis: Filmed in 1936 as Mr. Flow, this Robert Siodmak production was based on a novel by Gaston Leroux. Set in summertime Paris, the labyrinthine plotline is set in motion by the title character, a gentleman safecracker played by Louis Jouvet. To recount the entire plotline would require a Read More
Actors: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith
Synopsis: In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her other boyfriend--the real killer. When her husband dies, the magician gets plastic surgery until he resembles the killer and assumes his former position as husband to the girl. Read More
Actors: Roland Toutain, Huguette Duflos, Leon Belieres, Maxime des Jardins, Marcel Vibert, Van Daele
Synopsis: Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune (Mystery of the Yellow Room) is based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, of Phantom of the Opera fame. Hugette Ex-Duffos plays a scientist's daughter, who is targeted for a murder by an unknown assailant. When the police prove unable to protect the heroine, wisecracking Read More
Actors: Huguette Duflos, Vera Engels, Roland Toutain, Marcel Vibert, Leon Belieres
Synopsis: A novel by Gaston Leroux (of Phantom of the Opera fame) was the source for Parfum de la Dame en Noir (Perfume of the Lady in Black). The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder. The film's highlight Read More
Crew: Play Author
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Leila Hyams, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Norman Trevor, George Kotsonaros
Synopsis: A film that has apparently long since disappeared, Fox's The Wizard is, together with MGM's London After Midnight, one of the most highly sought-after of the "lost" silent horror films. Based on a story by Gaston Leroux (of Phantom of the Opera fame), the story concerns one Doctor Coriolos, played Read More
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland
Synopsis: Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced by Universal, the film shot in 1923 and shelved for nearly two years, and was subjected to intensive studio tinkering. While many expected a disaster, the film turned out to Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Gina Manès, Leon Lorin
Actors: Gina Manès, René Navarre, Jose Davert
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