The Phantom of Skid Row

1965. Young Tito Scaffone loves vintage horror movies more than life itself. He is especially enamored of Lon Chaney's 1925 The Phantom of the Opera-the majesty of the sets, the silent-celluloid beauty of Mary Philbin, but most of all the mastery of Chaney's makeup as the hideously disfigured phantom. But monsters in movies are one thing, in life quite another. And Tito cannot face life. His only friend is Jan Klosek, a good-hearted South Philadelphia roughneck whose uncles run Independent ...