
Mystery of the Wax Museum
The supreme thriller!
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Release Date
2/18/1933Runtime
78 minsOverview
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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EnglishBudget
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A pre-Code horror mystery with early Hollywood sensationalism, where a reporter's investigation into disappearances uncovers grotesque secrets behind a wax museum's facade.
Mood
UnsettlingDread-soakedTense
Themes
CrimeObsessionMortality
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence

Lionel Atwill
Ivan Eigor

Glenda Farrell
Florence Dempsey

Allen Vincent
Ralph Burton

Fay Wray
Charlotte Duncan

Frank McHugh
Editor Jim

Edwin Maxwell
Worth, Eigor's bootlegger partner

Arthur Edmund Carewe
Professor Darcy

Gavin Gordon
George Winton

Matthew Betz
Hugo, deafmute sculptor
Bull Anderson
Otto, museum janitor

Holmes Herbert
Dr. Rasmussen

Claude King
Mr. Galatalin
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