1. Mystery of the Wax Museum | film by Curtiz [1933] - Britannica
Even more impressive was Mystery of the Wax Museum, a quasi-sequel to Doctor ... A classic swashbuckler, which was nominated for an Academy Award for ...
Other articles where Mystery of the Wax Museum is discussed: Michael Curtiz: The breakthrough years: Even more impressive was Mystery of the Wax Museum, a quasi-sequel to Doctor X, with Atwill and Wray again struggling to the death. Less memorable were the five other films Curtiz directed that year: The Keyhole, Female, Goodbye Again, and a pair of films in which William Powell played…
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2. Mystery of the Wax Museum - AFI|Catalog
This film was also known as Wax Museum. It was the last film to be made with the two-color Technicolor process. Some contemporary sources refer to Charles S.
In London in 1921, Mr. Igor's critically successful wax museum is burned down by his partner for the insurance money. Igor is trapped in the flames and all his work is destroyed. Twelve years later in New York, Igor watches from his window while the body of Joan Gale is taken to the morgue. Her rich young boyfriend, George Winton, is arrested for her murder, but when an autopsy is ordered, the police find the body has been stolen. Wisecracking reporter Florence Dempsey decides she will prove Winton's innocence. She accompanies her roommate Charlotte Duncan to Igor's new wax museum to visit Charlotte's fiancé Ralph Burton, Igor's assistant. There, Florence is struck by the resemblance between a wax statue of Joan of Arc and the dead Joan Gale. When Winton is released from prison on bail, he and Florence follow Igor's drug addict assistant, Sparrow, hoping to find out the truth about the museum. Meanwhile, Igor has trapped Charlotte in the museum. He tells her that because his hands
3. Mystery of the Wax Museum | Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki - Fandom
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor.
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor. The film stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh. The film, along with Warner's Doctor X, was the last dramatic fiction film made using the two-color Technicolor process. 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 s
4. Mystery of the Wax Museum (Movie, 1933) - MovieMeter.com
Oscars · Emmys ... Furthermore, this version is also often unnecessarily messy and complicated due to the use of too many characters and unnecessary scenes.
Horror movie directed by Michael Curtiz. With Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell.
5. The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) - The Vintage Cameo
29 okt 2013 · Directed by Michael Curtiz–who would later win an Oscar for helming a little film called Casablanca–the film is a curious mixture of Vincent ...
The Mystery of the Wax Museum is a curious mixture of Vincent Price spooks, quick screwball comedy banter, and a dash of German expressionism.
6. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | Timeline of Historical Film Colors
More than 230 film color processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. In this regard, both media ...
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7. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Brief Synopsis. Read More. A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues. Cast & Crew. Read More ...
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
8. Mystery of the Wax Museum | Rotten Tomatoes
Mystery of the Wax Museum is notable for a handful of reasons, including the involvement of director Michael Curtiz before he became Warner's top go-to guy ( ...
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. 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.
9. The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | Hometowns to Hollywood
Michael Curtiz's The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) stands out as a Pre-Code mystery-horror shot in two-strip Technicolor. Moreover, it is one of the last two ...
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 divorc…
10. Film Review: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) - Medium
5 aug 2022 · In addition to good acting and great direction by famed director Michael Curtiz (more on him later), the film's imagery positively pops thanks ...
See AlsoUps Printing CardstockGhouls. Body snatching. Murders. Fay Wray screaming. All in two-tone Technicolor!
11. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
4 okt 2018 · Sure, they showed the documentary, Universal Horror, which was nice, but I wanted to see more of the actual monster flicks that I'd read up on ...
After it had first introduced me to many of the classic horror films from Universal throughout the month of October in 1998, I was fully e...
12. mystery of the wax museum - Classic movies, serials, B-movies
The film's history is as spotty as the image has always been; it was lost, then it was B&W only instead of its original two-strip Technicolor, then a print was ...
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13. The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Review, with Glenda Farrell ...
11 okt 2013 · In reality Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum came fairly late in the two color game. Nearly everyone had given up the ghost by 1933 and ...
Florence Dempsey … Glenda Farrell Charlotte Duncan … Fay Wray Ivan Igor … Lionel Atwill Joe Worth … Edwin Maxwell Ralph Burton … Allen Vincent Jim … Frank McHugh…
14. Horror Actressing: Glenda Farrell in "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933)
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15. REVIEW - 'Mystery of the Wax Museum' (1933) | The Movie Buff
31 okt 2022 · Review: 'Mystery of the Wax Museum' (1933)—Waxing Nostalgic with a Crafty and Mischievous Horror Tale · A Horror Film that Does So Much with So ...
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16. MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM [1933] - Horror Cult Films
23 jan 2021 · I reviewed Mystery Of the Wax Museum in the very early days of HCF, but seeing as I tend to have so much to waffle on these days, and that I'm ...
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION A], DVD, and DIGITAL [REGION A] RUNNING TIME: 83 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera London 1921; sculptor Ivan Igor operates a wax museum which specialises in historical figures. Business [...]
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17. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) - Alex on Film
2 jun 2017 · *. Doctor X had come out just the year before and had also been directed by Michael Curtiz, starred Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, had the same art ...
*. I wasn’t long into this one before I felt sure I’d seen it before. This was not, however, because I was familiar with the 1953 remake House of Wax starring Vincent Price, which remai…
18. Mystery of the Wax Museum: Once Lost, Now Found By Susan King
22 okt 2020 · Such is the case with MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM ('33), the delicious Michael Curtiz horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell ...
Baby boomer cinephiles fell in love with movies by watching them on television (remember Million Dollar Movie?) despite often bad, blurry prints that appeared edited by a chainsaw in order to fit into...
19. The Mystery of the Wax Museum | Doctor X - Wexner Center for the Arts
The Mystery of the Wax Museum | Doctor X · (Michael Curtiz, 1933) | (Michael Curtiz, 1932) · Read more.
In The Mystery of the Wax Museum, Fay Wray (King Kong) plays a wisecracking New York reporter investigating how Mr. Igor (Lionel Atwill) is able to...
