- The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
- In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...and his 'children.' Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing (including a corpse from the morgue); Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte Duncan, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of Charlotte's roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
- In 1921 London, Ivan Igor is sculptor who owns a small wax museum. His works - which he refers to as his children - are exquisite and lifelike in every way. His financial backer, Joe Worth, is unhappy that they have made no money from the venture and sets the museum on fire to collect the insurance money. In New York on New year's day 1933, reporter Florence Dempster is under pressure from her editor to come up with a story or be fired. When she hears that Joan Gale, who supposedly committed suicide on New Year's eve may in fact have been murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Winton, she heads to the coroner's office to get the autopsy results. The problem is that the coroner can no longer find the body. For his part, Ivan Igor is preparing to open a new museum. He was severely hurt in the fire years before and is confined to a wheelchair with only limited use of his hands. Igor is captivated by his assistant's fiancée, Charlotte Duncan but Charlotte's roommate, reporter Florence Dempster, is more interested in the wax figure that bears a striking resemblance to Joan Gale.—garykmcd
- It's the new year in New York City, and the London Wax Museum is preparing for its grand opening. Ralph Burton works as one in the stable of sculptors at the museum, all under the direction of its wheelchair-bound owner and chief designer, Ivan Igor, who suffered his injuries, including to his hands, in a fire twelve years ago at the former London Wax Museum in London. Renowned within the business at the time for his mastery of the craft but not so much by the public who were craving the gruesome as opposed to the historical as he favored, Igor fought against his business partner at the time, Joe Worth, who started the fire for the insurance moneys. When Igor meets Ralph's girlfriend, Charlotte Duncan, he knows she has to model for him in she being the spitting image of his most cherished work, that of Marie Antoinette, which perished in the fire. Meanwhile, Charlotte's tough talking and cynical roommate Florence, a newspaper reporter on the verge of losing her job if she doesn't come up with a newsworthy story, is working on what she believes is that job-saving story: that socialite Joan Gray's death, initially ruled a suicide, is now thought to be murder, the chief suspect millionaire playboy George Winton. While not questioning the murder angle, Florence is certain that Winton did not do it. In her investigation, Florence is led to the museum. That investigation in addition to the legacy of the former museum places both her and Charlotte's lives in danger.—Huggo
- In London, a sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his employer proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. After knocking out the sculptor, the owner leaves him to "perish" among the flames. Thirteen years later, the sculptor resurfaces in New York City for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. A determined reporter begins to suspect the deranged museum owner of stealing the corpses and using them for the wax figures in his exhibits.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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By what name was Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) officially released in India in English?
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