Commentary
In the annals of cinema, few scenes have made such an impression as Lon Chaney’s unmasking in the 1925 silent masterpiece “The Phantom of the Opera.” Chaney’s Phantom—a disfigured genius haunting the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House—originated in Gaston Leroux’s 1910 French novel “Le Fantôme de l’Opéra,” a tale now immortalized through countless retellings.
