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Writers (WGA):
Gaston Leroux (novel)
Arthur Kopit (play)
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Release Date:
18 March 1990 (USA) more
Plot:
Count de Chagnie has discovered Christine's singing talent on a market place and sent her to his friend Carriere... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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User Comments:
I think the best "Phantom" made to date! more (28 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Lancaster | ... | Gerard Carriere | |
| Adam Storke | ... | Count Philippe de Chagny | |
| Teri Polo | ... | Christine Daee | |
| Charles Dance | ... | Erik The Phantom of the Opera | |
| Ian Richardson | ... | Cholet | |
| Andréa Ferréol | ... | Carlotta | |
| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... | Inspector Ledoux | |
| Jean Rougerie | ... | Jean-Claude | |
| André Chaumeau | ... | Joseph Buguet | |
| Marie-Thérèse Orain | ... | Madame Giry | |
| Marie-Christine Robert | ... | Flora | |
| Marie Lenoir | ... | Florence | |
| Anne Roumanoff | ... | Fleure | |
| Jean Dupouy | ... | Alfredo (singer 'Faust') | |
| Jacques Mars | ... | Oroyeso (singer 'Mephisto') |
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Also Known As:
Le fantôme de l'opéra (France)
Phantom der Oper (Germany)
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168 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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This film only aired twice. It's original air date was on NBC in 1990. The film was subsequently shown in the mid 90's on A&E. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Christine Daae's last name is mispelled on one of the posters for the production of "Faust" inside the opera house. more
Quotes:
Erik The Phantom of the Opera:
[hearing Carlotta singing for the first time] My God... this place really *is* haunted! What is *that?*
Gerard Carriere:
From the sound, I would say it's Carlotta... the new star.
Erik The Phantom of the Opera:
[looking thunderstruck] She can't sing!
Gerard Carriere:
Well, obviously, she doesn't know that.
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Referenced in Behind the Mask: The Story of 'The Phantom of the Opera' (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
La Traviata more
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1990 two-part Brit film, made for TV to take advantage of the interest in the then hit Broadway musical. This one is not a musical, but has numerous excellent operatic scenes. A young Comte, patron of the opera, hears a beautiful singer at a country fair, sends her to the impresario of the opera house to arrange for singing lessons. That manager has just been dismissed, succeeded by a scurrilous couple played by jealous, demanding soprano Andréa Ferréol and her husband, fawning Ian Richardson. He's in a very different role for him, which couldn't keep out his usual officious nature behind a very strange semi-Italian accent! I imagine he relished every second of it. Ferréol demands the leading roles in every opera, refuses to give lovely ingenue Teri Polo lessons, but lets her stay on as her costume girl and dresser to lesser players. Veteran character actor Charles Dance does a fine job as Erik, the Phantom, as does Burt Lancaster as the ousted manager. Unlike that famous organ scene in the Lon Chaney 1925 silent, we never see Erik's face. When he is unmasked, his back remains to the camera. I've seen most if not all of the film "Phantoms" and deem this the finest of all. Direction, sets, locations are all absolutely outstanding. The TV film originally ran on two different nights, with complete, long opening titles and closing credits run both times. The first installment ends suddenly with the huge chandelier crashing down on opera patrons. Tres abrupt! Viewers must fiddle around with controls to jump to the "next scene", the film's concluding half, and sit through those titles again. Should have been re-edited for home viewers. But the performance itself is well worth it, after one figures all this out. A very strange trailer is included as the third CD "scene".