The supreme thriller!
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and unpretentious.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20178/10
My dear, why are you so pitifully afraid? London 1921, and brilliant sculptor Ivan Igor struggles to keep his museum open due to lack of interest in his beautiful historical characters. His partner Joe Worth feels it's time to call it quits, a row over finances ensues and a fire breaks out and burns the museum to the ground, almost killing Igor in the process. On to 1933 and New York, where the wheelchair bound Igor has a new museum open, the figures sculpted by others under his guidance due to his horribly disfigured hands preventing him from crafting himself. When a female socialite dies and her body is stolen from the morgue, ballsy reporter Florence Dempsey starts to investigate. Could it be that the stealing of the body is linked to the opening of Igor's new museum? Mystery of the Wax Museum was long thought to have had it's elements lost in a (ironically) fire, so with no Technicolor negative or prints available, it was a cinematic godsend that a used print was discovered in Jack Warner's private vault. The UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the film, and now the film can be seen in all its former glory. Riding in on a high reputation, the restored film was met with le
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Cast
- Lionel AtwillIvan Igor
- Glenda FarrellFlorence Dempsey
- Allen VincentRalph Burton
- Fay WrayCharlotte Duncan
- Frank McHughJim
- Edwin MaxwellWorth
- Arthur Edmund CareweProfessor Darcy
- Gavin GordonGeorge Winton
- Matthew BetzHugo
- Bull AndersonOtto
Crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- Don MullalyScreenplay
- Carl EricksonScreenplay
- Ray RennahanDirector of Photography
- Bernhard KaunOriginal Music Composer
- George AmyEditor
- Henry BlankeProducer
- Hal B. WallisProducer
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