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In 1923, Universal Studios became Hollywood s reigning house of horror with
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring makeup effects legend Lon Chaney. The studio followed the success of Chaney s take on Victor Hugo s novel with another macabre masterpiece starring the man of a thousand faces.
The Phantom of the Opera, released in 1925, had audiences fainting in the aisles thanks to Chaney s performance as Erik, the disfigured madman of the Paris Opera. With Chaney s talents and the vision of production head Carl Laemmle, Jr., Universal was on its way to a 33-year horror dynasty.
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1 J. Hoberman wrote a short review of a newly released Blu-ray version of
Gaslight that features both George Cukor’s 1944 film and Thorwold Dickinson’s 1940 version. The piece is titled
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Gaslight Hasn’t Lost Its Glow.” Upon reading the piece, the title of the review becomes somewhat curious. While acknowledging that Ingrid Bergman is ‘a great actress’, Hoberman goes on to dismiss the Cukor film as a vehicle for her talents. In contrast, he asserts that “…the Dickinson film is superior to the Hollywood version in nearly every way: more ecomonical (running half an hour shorter), more brutal (opening with the murder of an elderly woman and the killer ransacking her flat), and a lot nastier.” His high regard for Dickinson’s film is based on slight grounds. The implication seems to be that the director is treating the material as a hardy piece of working class British entertainment. For Hoberman, MGM gave
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