Movie
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1933-02-18
- Runtime
- 78 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Lionel Atwill as Ivan Igor
- Glenda Farrell as Florence Dempsey
- Allen Vincent as Ralph Burton
- Fay Wray as Charlotte Duncan
- Frank McHugh as Jim
- Edwin Maxwell as Worth
- Arthur Edmund Carewe as Professor Darcy
- Gavin Gordon as George Winton
- Matthew Betz as Hugo
- Bull Anderson as Otto
- Holmes Herbert as Dr. Rasmussen
- Claude King as Mr. Galatalin
Crew
- Michael Curtiz - Director
- Carl Erickson - Screenplay
- Don Mullaly - Screenplay
- Charles S. Belden - Story
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