![]() Gausma and Ira Webb, who recycle Phantom's lavish backdrops.Īnd the similarities don't end there: as with Phantom of the Opera, The Climax proves hard to endure thanks to its horrible operatic screeching, the musical numbers a cacophony of high pitched warbling guaranteed to set one's teeth on edge and get the local dogs a-barking. Schoengarth, and set decorators Russell A. ![]() Goodman, makeup artist Jack Pierce, editor Russell F. Howard Greene, costume designer Vera West, art directors Alexander Golitzen and John B. The Climax not only sails very close to Phantom territory n terms of plot, but it also shares much of that film's crew - director George Waggner (who was producer on Phantom), composer Edward Ward, cinematographers Hal Mohr and W. Like the previous year's remake of The Phantom of the Opera, Technicolor Boris Karloff thriller The Climax (oo-err) takes place in the world of opera, with its villain, a mad physician (natch), causing problems for the theatre's newest star, beautiful young soprano Angela Klatt (played by the very lovely Susanna Foster, who also starred in Phantom). Reviewed by BA_Harrison 4 / 10 I couldn't wait for it to finish.
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