Director: PHIL ROSEN. Screenplay: Michael Jacoby. Based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Photography: Woody Bredell. Film editor: Milton Carruth. Art director: Jack Otterson. Costume supervisor: Vera West. Set decorator: Russell A. Gausman. Music composed and directed by Hans J. Salter. Song, "Mama Dites Moi" (Montez dubbed by Dorothy Triden), by Everett Carter and Milton Rosen. Sound recording: Robert Pritchard. Associate producer: Paul Malvern.
Copyright 24 February 1942 by Universal Pictures Company, Inc. New York opening at the Rialto: 4 May 1942. Australian release: 28 May 1942. 7 reels. 5,502 feet. 61 minutes. Alternative title: PHANTOM OF PARIS.
SYNOPSIS: Medical examiner, Paul Dupin, tries to discover why a famous actress disappears from home.
COMMENT: Beautiful photography and strikingly imaginative compositions are here undermined by banal dialogue and some equally atrocious "acting" - particularly by Lloyd Corrigan whose bumbling police chief has as much right in Montmartre as a barge-load of coal in a typewriter.
OTHER VIEWS: Rosen's direction was more intent on period atmosphere than drama. The film lacked excitement and suspense. - Robert C. Roman in Films In Review.
Copyright 24 February 1942 by Universal Pictures Company, Inc. New York opening at the Rialto: 4 May 1942. Australian release: 28 May 1942. 7 reels. 5,502 feet. 61 minutes. Alternative title: PHANTOM OF PARIS.
SYNOPSIS: Medical examiner, Paul Dupin, tries to discover why a famous actress disappears from home.
COMMENT: Beautiful photography and strikingly imaginative compositions are here undermined by banal dialogue and some equally atrocious "acting" - particularly by Lloyd Corrigan whose bumbling police chief has as much right in Montmartre as a barge-load of coal in a typewriter.
OTHER VIEWS: Rosen's direction was more intent on period atmosphere than drama. The film lacked excitement and suspense. - Robert C. Roman in Films In Review.