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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) was a Horror - Mystery Film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke.

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On Blu-ray: A Magnificent Restoration of the Two-Strip Horror Flick The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

By KC on Jun 17, 2020 From Classic Movies

My introduction to the pre-code horror flick Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) came from the book that provided most of my early film education, 500 Great Films, by Daniel and Susan Cohen. The brief passage dedicated to the movie revealed that it was lost for twenty-five years and over that time, ... Read full article


MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM On Blu-ray From Warner Archive

By Dan Day, Jr. on May 16, 2020 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

One of my favorite classic movies is the 1933 MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. I first saw it on TV as a young teenager back in the mid-1980s, and I've been fascinated by it ever since. The combination of Gothic horror and Depression-era urban American attitude, the otherworldly look of the two-strip Tech... Read full article


Pre-Code Corner: Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum

By Kim Luperi on Mar 3, 2018 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Warner Brothers Horror, In Living (Two) Color: Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum As part of their career retrospective Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film, the UCLA Film and Television Archive recently screened a superb pre-Code triple feature: Doctor X (1932), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), and... Read full article


Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) vs. House of Wax (1953)

on Oct 6, 2014 From Journeys in Classic Film

A double dose of wax museums kickstar this week’s Halloween reviews?as I compare and contrast Mystery of the Wax Museum with its remake, House of Wax. (We’re going to pretend the 2005 remake doesn’t exist.) Mystery and House are practically the same movie, albeit the latter boasts ... Read full article


Neglected Post Theatre: "Mystery of the Wax Museum," or Statue of Limitations

By David on May 6, 2014 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Neglected Post Theatre we re-examine the 1933 film "Mystery of the Wax Museum," with Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell and cast of dummies.... Read full article


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Ivan Igor: For twelve years... twelve awful years... this terrible living dead man, with these burned hands and face, has searched for this fiend. Now the account is closed!
[opens packing case to reveal the body of Worth]


Ivan Igor: If my curiosity is not to great would you mind telling me what manner of animal it is you are designing?
Ralph Burton: This is one of the athenian girls for the bacchanal.
Ivan Igor: It would be interesting to know young man where and when you studied anatomy.


Florence: OK, brother, then you can go to some nice warm place, and I don't mean California.


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This film was produced before the Production Code. When it was re-made only 20 years later, as House of Wax, all references to drug use were removed and a character was changed from a junkie to an alcoholic.
Although the title had been changed to "Mystery of the Wax Museum", the leaders on the original release prints still gave the title as "Wax Museum".
The movie was believed to be lost until the late sixties.
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