This was the first silent film I ever watched and it remains one of my favorites! Lon Chaney stars as the titular character, who is way cooler than that lame-ass Gerard Butler in the musical version. Gerard Butler just wore a mask that covered half his face and some putty to aid in the process of making him look ugly. Lon Chaney, on the other hand, actually did some weird things (according to what I've read) to himself to truly get into character. Supposedly for Phantom of the Opera, he wound a wire around his head to get his nose to go up like that. He was also very skilled in applying make-up which earned him the nickname of "The Man With a Thousand Faces." You can regularly catch this film on TCM (Sunday nights are silent nights!). And a little piece of trivia: Lon Chaney's son, Lon Chaney, Jr., went on to act in 1941's The Wolf Man.
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