The Mystery of the Wax Museum

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NR,1hr 17min

Genres:

Horror,Drama

Released:

January 1, 1932

Distributor:

Music Video Distributors

Starring:

Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell ... More

Synopsis: The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages a wax museum. Regarding his historical creations as his friends, Igor refuses the entreaties of his business partner, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), to turn his labor-of-love museum into a more profitable "house of horror." Worth responds by setting fire to the museum, hoping to collect the insurance; as Igor looks on in horror, his effigies of Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria, ... Full Synopsis

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	Craig Butler, AMG Review One of the talkies' early horror classics, The Mystery of the Wax Museum is a crackling good thriller that's a great deal of fun. Wax Museum has its flaws: the identity of the villain is not especially hard to figure out, and the actors employed to impersonate wax figures (because real wax would have melted under the hot lights) do tend to move, which is certainly distracting. But on the whole, Wax ... Read Review

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	Lionel Atwill Ivan Igor Fay Wray Charlotte Duncan Glenda Farrell Florence Dempsey Frank McHugh Jim

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