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Mystery of the Wax Museum is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Michael Curtiz released in USA on 18 february 1933 with Lionel Atwill
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
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Add to a movie listMystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery-horror film released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh.
This film is notable as the last dramatic fiction film made, along with Warner's Doctor X, in the two-color Technicolor process. (Constance Bennett filmed two documentaries; Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936) using the old process.)
Synopsis
Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) is a sculptor who operates a wax museum in 1921 London. He gives a private tour to a friend and an investor, showing them sculptures of Joan of Arc, Voltaire, and his favorite, Marie Antoinette. Formerly a stone sculptor who did wax modeling as a hobby, he explains he turned to wax sculpting completely because he felt more "satisfied" that he could reproduce "the warmth, flesh, and blood of life far more better in wax than in cold stone". The investor, impressed by his sculptures, offers to submit Igor's work to the Royal Academy after he returns from a trip.Actors
Lionel Atwill
(Ivan Eigor)
Fay Wray
(Charlotte Duncan)
Glenda Farrell
(Florence Dempsey)
Frank McHugh
(Editor Jim)
Gavin Gordon
(George Winton)
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