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. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. and filmed in two-color Technicolor ; Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum were the last two dramatic fiction films made using ...
A horror mystery thriller about a sculptor who kills people and preserves their bodies in wax. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
- Michael Curtiz
- 4 min
A horror film adaptation of a play about a disfigured sculptor who creates wax statues of murder victims. Learn about the cast, crew, production, and reception of this classic Warner Bros. picture.
- 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 inside.
- (13)
- Lionel Atwill
- Michael Curtiz
- Horror
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.
Release Date. 02/18/1933. Recently restored to glorious effect, The Mystery of the Wax Museum belongs to a rare breed of horror from the early 1930s that tested the boundaries of representation. During these early decades of the motion-picture industry, studios quickly learned that sex and violence sells.
