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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   1,555 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Charles Belden (play)
Don Mullaly (writer) ...
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Release Date:
17 February 1933 (USA) more
Tagline:
IS SHE WOMAN OR WAX??? Solve it -- if you dare! more
Plot:
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
Top Five Movie Screamers
 (From Alt Film Guide. 30 October 2009, 7:09 PM, PDT)

Greatest Scream Queens
 (From SoundOnSight. 1 September 2009, 12:00 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Lionel Atwill ... Ivan Igor
Fay Wray ... Charlotte Duncan
Glenda Farrell ... Florence Dempsey
Frank McHugh ... Jim
Allen Vincent ... Ralph Burton
Gavin Gordon ... George Winton

Edwin Maxwell ... Joe Worth
Holmes Herbert ... Dr. Rasmussen
Claude King ... Mr. Galatalin
Arthur Edmund Carewe ... Sparrow (Prof. Darcy)
Thomas E. Jackson ... Detective (as Thomas Jackson)
DeWitt Jennings ... Police captain
Matthew Betz ... Hugo (the deaf-mute)
Monica Bannister ... Joan Gale
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (USA) (poster title)
Wax Museum
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Runtime:
77 min
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Color:
Color (2-strip Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Vitaphone)

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Trivia:
Although the title had been changed to "Mystery of the Wax Museum", the leaders on the original release prints still gave the title as "Wax Museum". more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Florence runs outside and calls for Winton she is facing to the right, but when Winton pulls up he comes from the left. more
Quotes:
Ivan Igor: My dear, why are you so pitifully afraid? Immortality has been the dream, the inspiration of mankind through the ages. And I am going to give you immortality! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Carry on Screaming! (1966) more
Soundtrack:
Agitato more

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29 out of 34 people found the following review useful.
Remember this forgotten masterpiece, 10 June 1999
Author: Stephen Butler from London, England

A genuinely frightening film from Michael Curtiz, jack of no trades and master of all. Many of the tricks of classic 1930's horror are here, including the opening scene set in a dark, rainy London street, the long shadows on the wall, lengthy periods of silence, and all timed to perfection. Only the faster-than-the-speed-of-sound dialogue of Glenda Farrell truly lets the film down. But other than that it is a gothic masterpiece, an underrated movie probably due to the fact that it lay undiscovered, thought lost, for over half a century. Far more inventive and imaginative than the majority of horror films made today.

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