TheBoost said:

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.

Been meaning to see this too, but didn't know which version of it is better.