At that moment, Raoul and Anatole break in, and fire at their 'Phantom'. Christine pulls off his mask and sees what has happened to Erique. He urges Christine to sing, and as she does, the police get nearer to finding Claudin. He hears Liszt playing his concerto, and he plays along with it on his piano.
As the audience and the crew flee, Erique takes Christine down to his lair, pursued by the police. He then brings down the large chandelier on the audience and cause chaos to spread. But Erique strangles one of D'Aubert's men and heads to the domed ceiling of the auditorium. After some time, D'Aubert comes up with a plan: not let Christine sing during a performance of the opera La Prince Masque du Caucasus while Garron plans to have Liszt play the concerto after the performance. When Biancarolli refuses to let Christine sing again, Erique enters her dressing room and kills her and her maid. Biancarolli, who suspects that Garron and Christine are guilty, Erique drugged Biancarolli’s wine in disguise. The director then puts Christine on in her place and she dazzles the audience. But during a performance of the opera Amore et Gloire, Biancarolli drinks a glass of wine and is drugged. Biancarolli ( Jane Farrar), who will do anything to stay in the limelight. Now Christine is the understudy for the Opera’s female diva Mme. But famed opera baritone Anatole Garron ( Nelson Eddy) hopes to win Christine away from Raoul. Meanwhile, Inspector Raoul D’Aubert ( Edgar Barrier) wants Christine to quit the Opera and marry him. Now being hunted down by the police for murder, he flees to the sewers of the Opera.Ĭlaude Rains as Erique Claudin, the Phantom, with Susanna Foster as Christine DuBois in Universal's 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera.Ĭlaudin steals a prop mask from the costume department to cover his now-disfigured face and becomes obsessed with Christine. Screeching and wailing, he dashes out the door clutching his face. Just as he tosses the body of Pleyel to the floor, Georgette, the publisher's assistant, throws etching acid at Claudin. Convinced that Pleyel is trying to steal his concerto, Claudin leaps up and begins to strangle him. It is his concerto that is merely being endorsed and praised by Franz Liszt. Someone begins to play music in the next room, and he looks up in shock when he hears it. Claudin persists, but Pleyel rudely tells him to leave and goes back to the etchings he was working on.įinally giving up, Claudin stands there for a moment and hangs his head sadly. No one there knows what happened to it, and do not seem to care. After submitting it and not hearing a response, he becomes worried and returns to the publishers, Pleyel & Desjardins, to ask about it. In a desperate attempt to gain money, Claudin tries to get a concerto he has written published. This is not the case however, for Claudin has spent it all by anonymously funding the music lessons of Christine Dubois (Foster), a young soprano with whom Christine's music teacher assumes Claudin has secretly fallen in love. He is dismissed because of this, the conductor of the opera house assuming that he has enough money to support himself. Recently however, he has been losing the use of the fingers of his left hand, which affects his violin-playing. Rains's portrayal of the Phantom, although overshadowed by Chaney's Phantom, is now considered to be one of the main Universal Monsters and is often listed with the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and Gill Man.Įrique Claudin (Rains) / The Phantom has been a violinist at the Paris Opera House for twenty years.
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It is also the only Universal Monster movie to win an Oscar. The cinematographers were Hal Mohr and W. The original storyline was completely revised and there was no attempt to film the masked ball sequence, although the famous falling of the chandelier was re-enacted on an epic scale, using elaborate camera set-ups.
Other than the sets, this remake had little in common with the earlier film. The auditorium set, a replica of the Opéra Garnier interior, created for the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera was reused. The movie is a remake of the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward, loosely based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor.
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