![]() ![]() ![]() On the ride back home, Christine tells Harry about the voice she heard. At dinner, D'Arcy attempts to seduce her, but as they are about to leave to his apartment, she is saved by Harry. In her dressing room after the audition, Christine is warned against D'Arcy by a phantom voice. D'Arcy lecherously approves of the selection, and invites Christine to dinner. He finds a promising young star in Christine Charles, one of the chorus girls. With the show postponed, Harry frantically auditions new singers. In a panic, the curtain is rung down, and Maria refuses to sing again. The climax comes during Maria's first aria, when a side of the scenery rips apart to reveal the body of a hanged stage hand. No one will sit in a certain box because it is haunted.īackstage, despite the soothing efforts of the opera's producer, Harry Hunter, 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, a wealthy and pompous man, who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer informs him the theater has not been completely sold out. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. ![]()
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