Tucker, he learns that it was written by a former boarder named Professor Petrie, who had been killed in a fire at a printing press that was to print his music. Visiting Christine at her boarding house, Harry finds some old manuscripts that he recognizes as a rough draft of the opera he has produced. When Harry refuses to accept this, he is also dismissed by Lord Ambrose. Lord Ambrose chooses a more willing but less talented singer to take Christine's place. The next day Lord Ambrose sends a dismissal to Christine for refusing to come back to his apartment. He tells her she must come with him, but she screams, and The Phantom flees. Investigating the murder, Harry leaves Christine by herself, where she is approached by a man dressed in black, wearing a mask with only one eye, The Phantom of the Opera. At the same time, the rat-catcher ( Patrick Troughton) is murdered by the Phantom's lackey, a dwarf ( Ian Wilson). Intrigued, Harry takes Christine back to the opera house, where in her dressing room, the same voice tells Harry to leave her there and go. On the ride back home, Christine tells Harry about the voice she heard. That night, Lord Ambrose attempts to seduce her, but as they are about to leave for his apartment, Harry saves her. In her dressing room, Christine is warned against Lord Ambrose by a Phantom voice. Lord Ambrose lecherously approves of the selection and invites Christine to dinner.

He finds a promising young star in Christine Charles ( Heather Sears), one of the chorus girls. With the show postponed and Maria refusing to perform again, Harry frantically auditions new singers. When the body of a murdered stagehand swings out of the wings during Maria's first aria, pandemonium ensues. No one will sit in a certain box, Box #5, because it is haunted.īackstage, despite the soothing efforts of the opera's producer, Harry Hunter ( Edward de Souza), everyone, including the show's star, Maria, is nervous and upset as if a sinister force was at work. The first night of the season at the London Opera House finds the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy ( Michael Gough), a wealthy and pompous man who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer ( Thorley Walters) informs him the theatre has not been completely sold out. I am a fan of both Jane Seymour AND 'The Phantom of the Opera'.The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.

The one redeeming moment in this film, is when the Phantom's face is finally shown. York's hair gets more and more like Orphan Annie's as the film progesses and his costumes look like Oscar Wilde's cast offs. Seymour's hair gets bigger with each scene, her costumes look like a third rate community threatre production of 'My Fair Lady' (.she usually looks so beautiful in period costumes!) and her lip-synching only works in wideshots. Michael York plays the equally irritating director of 'Faust', the show that the opera company has been rehearsing for ever. Maria (the Christine Daae character) hasn't one good quality about her, making the viewer wonder what the Phantom is so in love about. Seymour plays two roles: Elena, a suicidal soprano, and Maria, a bitchy soprano. movie has to be the worst adaptation of the famous Gaston Leroux story filmed to date.

Jane Seymour and 'Phantom' fans beware!!! This made for T.

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