Gaston Leroux
Nascimento : 1868-05-06, Paris, France
Morte : 1927-04-15
História
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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
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A fun journey through the classics of musical theater.
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A história se passa 10 anos depois. 0 Fantasma fugiu de Paris e vive em New York entre aventuras inconsequentes e shows de horror de Coney Island. Embora tenha finalmente encontrado um lugar para expressar sua música, ele ainda sente falta do amor de Christine Daaé. Em uma aposta para reconquistá-la, Fantasma atrai Christine, seu marido Raoul, e o filho do casal, Gustave, de Manhattan, para o glorioso e brilhante mundo de Coney Island… mas eles não tem ideia do que os aguarda... Você não pode dizer que conhece Love Never Dies de Andrew Lloyd Webber até ver esta espetacular produção australiana, filmada no icônico Regent Theatre de Melbourne.
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A young woodcutter seeks the help of the Devil to win the heart of his beloved.
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O musical estreou no Her Majesty’s Theatre em 09 de outubro de 1986, com Michael Crawford e Sarah Brightman nos papéis principais. Após isso, foram realizadas dezenas de produções em todo o mundo. Agora, em seu 25º ano de recordes, "O Fantasma da Ópera" continua a cativar o público no Her Majesty’s Theatre, no West End de Londres, depois de mais de 10 mil apresentações.
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La Carlotta (Minnie Driver) é a diva de uma conceituada companhia teatral, que é responsável pelas óperas realizadas em um imponente teatro. Temperamental, La Carlotta se irrita pela ausência de um solo na nova produção da companhia e decide abandonar os ensaios. Com a estréia marcada para o mesmo dia, os novos donos do teatro não têm outra alternativa senão aceitar a sugestão de Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson) e escalar em seu lugar a jovem Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum), que fazia parte do coral. Christine faz sucesso em sua estréia, chamando a atenção do Visconde de Chagny (Patrick Wilson), o novo patrocinador da companhia. O Visconde e Christine se conheceram ainda crianças, mas ele apenas a reconhece na encenação da ópera. Porém o que nem ele nem ninguém da companhia, com exceção de Madame Giry, sabem é que Christine tem um tutor misterioso, que acompanha nas sombras tudo o que acontece no teatro: o Fantasma da Ópera (Gérard Butler).
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Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
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No fim do século XIX, um bebê é abandonado no esgoto e salvo por ratos. Ele cresce e passa a viver em segredo debaixo do teatro Ópera, onde cuida dos animais e toca órgão. Quando ouve a bela voz da cantora substituta Christine Daaé, ele se apaixona perdidamente e para conquistá-la promete fazer dela a estrela principal. Enquanto Christine se vê dividida entre o Fantasma e o Barão Raoul de Chagny, misteriosos assassinatos começam a acontecer nos subterrâneos do teatro.
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In this Italian adult version of Gaston Leroux's immortal novel 'The Phantom of the Opera'an opera house in Venice goes in flames during an opera performance, "killing" a handsome violinist.
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Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
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A comedy musical stage version of the Phantom of the Opera, filmed live on-stage during a performance in Florida.
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Uma cantora de ópera em ínicio de carreira se vê transportada para Londres na época vitoriana e aos braços de um maestro solitário e desfigurado, determinado a transformá-la em uma estrela. Christine (Jill Schoelen) a cantora "Garganta de Ouro", consegue atingir o sucesso através dos arranjos de seu protetor (Robert Englund)... Até que ela descobre que ele tem cometido vários assassinatos obscuros e inexplicáveis em sua honra, e que ele não vai parar até completar sua grande obra-prima... de sangue!
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A man buys an old, abandoned theater and puts on '50s-type rock shows. Then people start being killed in a rash of "accidents"...
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An animated version of Gaston Leroux's everlasting tale of "The Phantom of the Opera". Christine has been acting strange the last few days: she, first of all, got the lead part on a new opera and she's arrogant with people. A masked Phantom lurking in the shadows is haunting her, keeping her away from other men, striking revenge on the world above, but he also has a good side, a side that was tortured since childhood.
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The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
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Compositor com rosto desfigurado se esconde nos subterrâneos da cidade e aterroriza um teatro. Ele sequestra Christine Charles, uma jovem cantora de ópera, a quem dá aulas de canto em segredo.
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Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures.
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A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out, but when he regained consciousness, he became amnesiac. When she sees him again, the woman who loved him takes him for a ghost.
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A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.
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Rouletabille's fiancée, a young journalist always on the lookout for an investigation to solve, tells him how she has just suppressed a spy. Marriage is in question...
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The adventures of the famous Joseph Rouletabille, an adventurous young journalist, gone to solve a murder in the south of France. He puts an end to the conflict between two rival bands for the possession of a revolutionary metal, belenium.
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A journalist investigates several crimes, one of which involves the well-known riddle of the "closed room".
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Este imortal e espetacular conto de terror de Gaston Leroux é estrelado por Claude Rains como o mascarado fantasma da Ópera de Paris, um compositor enlouquecido que planeja fazer de uma linda jovem soprano (Susanna Foster) a estrela da companhia de ópera e saciar sua vingança contra os que roubaram sua música. Nelson Eddy, o heróico barítono, tenta obter o afeto da garota enguanto persegue os passos do monstro que começa a matar aqueles que resiste a suas loucas exigências.
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An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
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Conta a trágica história de Song Danping (Jin Shan, um dos melhores atores chineses da época), um cantor de ópera. Ele era apaixonado pela filha de um rico senhor feudal. A mando do sogro, foi espancado, desfigurado e abandonado à morte. Song resolveu fingir sua morte, pois não queria que sua amada o visse daquela forma. Ela acabou enlouquecendo.
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While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
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Rouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police.
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The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
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Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
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Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.
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A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
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Um compositor grotescamente desfigurado conhecido como o "Fantasma" assombra a casa de ópera de Paris, onde, apaixonado, ajuda secretamente Christine Daae a ser uma diva da ópera. Após atraí-la para seu covil subterrâneo, o Fantasma declara seu amor por ela. Mas Christine ama Raoul de Chagny e planeja fugir com ele depois de sua próxima apresentação. Quando o Fantasma descobre, ele rapta Christine, provocando a ira de Raoul - e uma horda de parisienses raivosos. O filme foi relançado com som, em 1929, usando discos de som da Vitaphone/Western Electric.
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He was two little children
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The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…
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French war propaganda in the form of a family drama in the German government. Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a French and a German. Directed by Henri Pouctal.
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the man who has come a long way
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The cub journalist comes to the aid of a recently remarried woman, whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.
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The first adventures of Chéri Bibi
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Silent mystery
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Silent film
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An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive, though, he runs off, getting into mischief, and falls in with a poacher who saves his life. Acting now as his slave Balaoo kills a man for the poacher, but balks on his orders to kidnap Madeleine, deciding instead to set a trap for the poacher.