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Rating:  - Best of the Phantom Musicals
The very fact that Nelson Eddy and Susanna Foster were chosen to make this film should tell all that the films primary focus is not on the phantom although Raines plays the part well. The music is great,the singing fantastic. With Foster how could it be otherwise.The sets are also wonderful and lend themselves to your immersion into the film.You really can sit back and listen to the film without watching it and still enjoy it.Should you enjoy Foster as much as I ,view her in The Climax with Karloff. Fair movie but again great sets and fabulous singing.Turhan Bay's role as a lovesick puppy ruins the film.
Rating: - A very good film and well worth seeing!
This is a film well worth seeing and very entertaining. It is a version of "Phantom of the Opera," very unlike the book, but very good as well. I think it's worth seeing for any fan of Phantom.
Rating:  - OK movie
This movie has very little phantom and the opera is very heavy plus there is to much of it. If you are looking for something like the Broadway show don't get this.
Rating: - OK movie
This movie has very little phantom and the opera is very heavy plus there is to much of it. If you are looking for something like the Broadway show don't get this.
Rating:  - awful
I always try to find good in a movie that I see, regardless of how bad some can get, but this! This is not at all "The Phantom of the Opera", it is not even an adaption, the names of the characters, the story line, not even the lead tenor nor the police man even appeared in the novel.
Raines gives a good performance, but lacks the exotic mystery that shrouded Leroux fantastic character, Christine remains to be seen on her "acting".
Christine, in the novel who is tormented by normality and the ectasy that the phantom offers her, grins and badly mouths through the overly long opera sequences and whose voice is no more french that George Bushes.
The production is too big and has a comic strip look about it. It is better to watch Lon Chaneys version, a silent movie need not cay anything to be heard. Burn your copy of this and take up the silent version or the original novel, trust me!
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