Lionel Atwill
Ivan Igor
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Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery - horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh.
Mystery of the Wax Museum: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh. The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
- Michael Curtiz
- 4 min
Mystery of the Wax Museum, sometimes referred to simply as Wax Museum, was produced by Warner Brothers to capitalize on the fad for horror films at that time, ranging from the now-legendary Universal franchise of horror films to low-budget independent productions like White Zombie (1932).
- Michael Curtiz, Lee Katz, Frank Shaw
- Lionel Atwill
Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) is the sculptor at a famous wax museum in London. When his partner, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), burns down the museum for the insurance money, Igor is trapped...
- (13)
- Lionel Atwill
- Michael Curtiz
- Horror
May 5, 2020 · Filmed in the early Two-Color Technicolor® process, The Mystery of the Wax Museum was considered a lost film for decades, until a well-worn print was discovered nearly 50 years ago....
- 4 min
- 25.5K
- Warner Bros. Classics
Apr 21, 2020 · Learn how a lost horror film from 1933 was rescued and restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation. Discover the film's production history, color techniques, and audio commentary by the Archive's Head of Preservation.
Years later he re-emerges in New York as the curator of a new wax museum, which boasts incredibly lifelike statues. When model Joan Gale (Monica Bannister) goes missing, however, reporter Florence Dempsey (Glenda Farrell) follows the clues to Igor's museum, where she discovers a terrible secret.
