The Phantom of Hollywood is a 1974 TV movie starring Jack Cassidy

Jack Cassidy

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, Skye Aubrey, Peter Lawford

Peter Lawford

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, Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

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, Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford

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, Peter Haskell

Peter Haskell

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, and John Ireland

John Ireland (actor)

John Benjamin Ireland was an actor and film director.-Biography:Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was raised in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway...

. It is notable for being one of the last films shot on the Metro Goldwyn Mayer back lot, which was being demolished at the time of filming.

The film aired on CBS Television, and was originally titled The Phantom of Lot 2. A riff on Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in "Le Gaulois" from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910...

, it was produced and directed by Gene Levitt

Gene Levitt

Eugene Levitt was an American television writer, producer and director....

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Synopsis

Murders taking place on the back lot of Worldwide Studios turn out to be the work of a disfigured actor who has been living there for years and will stop at nothing to cease the sale of the back lot to developers. The film seems to place a lot of emphasis on the chalk outline and one character is even heard to quip, "We're going to be running out of chalk," while standing over a murder scene in a dry pool on the set.