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Mystery of the Wax Museum ()

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The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Ivan Igor
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Charlotte Duncan
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Florence
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Jim
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Ralph Burton
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George Winton
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Joe Worth
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Dr. Rasmussen
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Mr. Galatalin
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Prof. Darcy
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Detective (as Thomas Jackson)
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Police Captain
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Hugo
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Joan Gale
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bull Anderson ...
Janitor (uncredited)
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Winton's Valet (uncredited)
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Museum Visitor (uncredited)
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Ambrose (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Autopsy Surgeon's Assistant (uncredited)
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Autopsy Surgeon (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
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Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Igor's Assistant (uncredited)
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Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Perry Ivins ...
Copy Editor (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Wax Figure of Queen Victoria (uncredited)
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Policeman in Prison (uncredited)
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Joe (uncredited)
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Plainclothesman (uncredited)
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Winton's Attorney (uncredited)
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Tall Thin Henchman (uncredited)
Dick Rush ...
Policeman (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
William Wagner ...
Morgue Attendant's Assistant (uncredited)

Directed by

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Michael Curtiz

Written by

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Don Mullaly ... (screen play) &
Carl Erickson ... (screen play)
 
Charles Belden ... (from the story by) (as Charles S. Belden)

Produced by

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Henry Blanke ... producer (uncredited)
Hal B. Wallis ... producer (uncredited)

Cinematography by

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Ray Rennahan ... (photography by)

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George Amy ... (edited by)

Editorial Department

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Natalie Kalmus ... color director: Technicolor

Art Direction by

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Anton Grot

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Orry-Kelly ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Ray Romero ... makeup artist (uncredited)
Perc Westmore ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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William Koenig ... production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Lee Katz ... assistant director (creditOnly) (uncredited)
Frank Shaw ... assistant director (creditOnly) (uncredited)

Art Department

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Herbert Plews ... property master (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Everett Alton Brown ... sound (uncredited)
James Thompson ... sound (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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Rex Wimpy ... special effects (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Bob Bonner ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
Thad Brooks Jr. ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Chuck Davis ... chief grip (uncredited)
Frank B. Good ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
W. Howard Greene ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
Claude Hutchinson ... gaffer (uncredited)
Floyd Lee ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
Roy Musgrave ... camera operator (uncredited)
Arthur Pierson ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
Richard Towers ... additional camera operator (uncredited)
Scotty Welbourne ... still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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Leo F. Forbstein ... conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra
Vitaphone Orchestra ... musicians: orchestra
Cliff Hess ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Bernhard Kaun ... composer: end title music (uncredited) / composer: trailer (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Fred Applegate ... continuity (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Clay Campbell ... assistant wax figures (uncredited)
L.E. Oates ... wax figures (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

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. Written by Rod Crawford

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Taglines Warner Bros.' Supreme Thriller See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Mystery of the Wax Museum (United States)
  • Masques de cire (France)
  • Los crímenes del museo (Spain)
  • Gabinet figur woskowych (Poland)
  • Os Crimes do Museu (Brazil)
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  • 77 min
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Trivia This film was produced before the Production Code. When it was remade 20 years later, as House of Wax (1953), all references to drug use were removed, and a character was changed from a junkie to an alcoholic. See more »
Goofs Ivan Igor says that Jean Paul Marat's assassin, Charlotte Corday, was his mistress. Not so - they had never met until she came to his office posing as a courier and quickly stabbed him to death. After her execution a few days later, she was found to be virgo intacta. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Mame (1974). See more »
Soundtracks Agitato See more »
Quotes Florence: Listen, Joan Gale's body was swiped from the morgue, have you ever heard of such a thing as a death mask?
Jim: I used to be married to one.
Florence: Then it came to life and divorced you, I know all about that.
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