:17:05
The Technicolor sequence
made a return engagement.
:17:09
And so did Lon Chaney,
:17:12
even if his lips were contractually sealed.
:17:47
Remade and reborn
at an additional cost of $113,000,
:17:53
the new Phantom of the Opera
grossed $419,000 worldwide,
:17:58
welcome money indeed for Universal
in the first year of the Great Depression.
:18:04
The Phantom of the Opera,
in sound, opened January 4, 1930.
:18:09
Three weeks later,
Lon Chaney signed with MGM
:18:12
for his first and only talkie,
The Unholy Three.
:18:16
But six months later,
The Man of a Thousand Faces was dead.
:18:20
The silent cinema died with him.
:18:29
Universal soon made itself Hollywood's
leading house of talking horror.
:18:34
I am Dracula.
:18:38
At the height of the horror boom in 1935,
:18:42
Universal announced a remake
of The Phantom of the Opera,
:18:44
to be produced on a grand scale.
:18:47
But overextended financially,
the Laemmles lost the studio.
:18:52
The new Universal management
forged ahead,
:18:54
promising its own ambitious Phantom.
:18:57
Mártha Eggerth, a Hungarian nightingale,
was announced as Christine,