Warbler said:
I've been meaning to watch Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera.
Brilliant beyond measure.
Needs a fan-edit though. At the last second the studio was too afraid of presenting a sympathetic monster, so they had The Arab say "Oh, by the way, the Phantom is an evil homicidal maniac escaped from Devil's Island, not a tortured genius shunned by humanity and pushed into evil" That moment seriously dampens the pathos Chaney's brialliance had built up for the Phantom.