Plot Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Some images exist from the film's promotional materials The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a 'prima ballerina' in the film when she was about 15 years old. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere.

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Phantom of the opera songs 1925