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In the 1950s, you couldn't step
on that spider-it stepped on you.
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It seemed as if The Phantom
would never be remade. And then...
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They're going to reopen the Opera.
At last we will sing...
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You are wrong, monsieur.
I'm sorry, Christine.
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They are going to reopen the Opera,
but without you.
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But box five remained a problem.
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Why is that box empty over there?
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There are have been complaints.
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- Complaints?
- Voices. People do not like to sit there.
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Are you trying to tell me it's haunted?
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Director Terence Fisher,
fresh from Hammer Films' triumphs
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The Curse of Frankenstein
and Horror of Dracula, was at the helm.
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Like most films that he directed, he didn't
have any say in choosing the subject.
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The studio had the idea to make the film.
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They said "Would you like to direct this?"
And he would say "Sure".
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But it was a subject
that appealed to him.
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It also appealed to Cary Grant.
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The legend of masculine charisma
approached Hammer,
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wanting to make a horror film.
Under the pen name John Elder,
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producer Anthony Hinds tailored
his script to the star's romantic persona,
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only to have Grant's agent refuse
his client's wish to play against type.
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I'm the rat-catcher.
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Cary Grant could not go
and stab the rat-catcher in the eye.
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Hammer's script takes
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most of the menace
away from the Phantom.
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It shifts murders from him to other people.