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.
- 6.4
- 1933
- Released
- 1h 18m
Lionel Atwill
Ivan Igor
Glenda Farrell
Florence Dempsey
Allen Vincent
Ralph Burton
Fay Wray
Charlotte Duncan
Frank McHugh
Jim
Edwin Maxwell
Worth
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Professor Darcy
Gavin Gordon
George Winton
Matthew Betz
Hugo
Bull Anderson
Otto
Holmes Herbert
Dr. Rasmussen
Claude King
Mr. Galatalin
William B. Davidson
Detective (Uncredited)
Guy Usher
Detective (Uncredited)
DeWitt Jennings
Police Captain, 12th Precinct
Robert Homans
Desk Sergeant, 12th Precinct
James Donlan
Morgue Attendant (Uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
Detective at Morgue
Frank Darien
Autopsy Surgeon (Uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Autopsy Surgeon's Assistant (Uncredited)
Monica Bannister
Joan Gale
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Sergeant by Christmas Tre
Lon Poff
Tall Thin Henchman (Uncredited)
Max Barwyn
Museum Visitor (Uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Ambrose (Uncredited)
Otto Hoffman
Igor's Assistant (Uncredited)Perry Ivins
Copy Editor (Uncredited)
Margaret Mann
Wax Figure of Queen Victoria (Uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Reporter (Uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Reporter (Uncredited)Charles McMurphy
Policeman in Prison (Uncredited)
Frank Fanning
Policeman (Uncredited)Dick Rush
Policeman (Uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Policeman (Uncredited)William Wagner
Morgue Attendant's Assistant (Uncredited)
Frank Austin
Winton's Valet (Uncredited)
Walter Percival
Winton's Attorney (Uncredited)Released
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- #wax museum
- #pre-code
Reviews
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 th