Who played the title role in the 1962 Hammer film version of The Phantom of the Opera ?
The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film) The Phantom as her mentor; but its Gothic elements are rich enough to defy time ... Surprisingly tasteful for a Hammer film, the production is also quite imaginative (The Phantom's rocky, water-lapped lair, complete with organ and double-bed) and careful." Howard Thompson of "The New York Times" called the film "a real disappointment ... In the hands of the British, with Herbert Lom as the opera ogre, the result is ornate and pretty dull. Whatever happened, chaps?" "Variety" wrote that the film "still provides a fair measure of goose pimples to combat some potential unwanted yocks. In the shadow of
The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film) The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher, a loose adaptation on the 1910 novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900. 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