The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Lon Chaney: The Phantom

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• The Phantom : [Christine sees a casket in the room]  That is where I sleep. It keeps me reminded of that other dreamless sleep that cures all ills - forever!

  Christine Daae : You - You are the Phantom!

  The Phantom : If I am the Phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.

• The Phantom : [title card]  She is singing to bring down the chandelier!

• The Phantom : [title card] 

  [at the Bal Masque as "The Red Death"] 

  The Phantom : Beneath your dancing feet are the tombs of tortured men! Thus does The Red Death rebuke your merriment!

• The Phantom : [title card]  Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness!

• The Phantom : [title card]  Did you hear voices?

  [Christine shakes her head] 

  The Phantom : [title card]  Perhaps we have more callers.

  Title Card : Heat - Intolerable heat!

• The Phantom : [title card]  If you turn the Scorpion - you have said 'Yes' and spared de Chagny. Turn the grasshopper - - and the Opera House is blown to a thousand bits!

• The Phantom : [title card]  What do you offer for their lives? Your answer quick - they can survive but a few moments!

• The Phantom : [title card] 

  [after having drowned Raoul's brother] 

  The Phantom : The callers have departed.

• The Phantom : [title card]  Christine, tonight I placed the world at your feet!

• The Phantom : [title card]  She has betrayed me!

• The Phantom : Men once knew me as Erik, but for many years I have lived in these cellars, a nameless legend.

• The Phantom : You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask.

• The Phantom : Look not upon my mask - think rather of my devotion which has brought you the gift of song.

• The Phantom : I am human like other men - I will not be cheated of my happiness!

• The Phantom : [to Christine]  I have brought you here - five cellars underground - because I love you! For long weary months I have awaited this hour! So that which is good within me, aroused by your purity, might plead for your love.

• The Phantom : Since first I saw your face, this music has been singing to me of you and of - love triumphant! Yet listen - there sounds an ominous undercurrent of warning!

• The Phantom : No longer like a toad in these foul cellars will I secrete the venom of hatred - for you shall bring me love!