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All movies seen on 10/27/2009

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, danielt

Overview

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Rated NR | Length 77 minutes

Actors

Lionel Atwill | Glenda Farrell | Allen Vincent | Fay Wray | Frank McHugh | Edwin Maxwell | Arthur Edmund Carewe | Gavin Gordon | Matthew Betz | Bull Anderson | Holmes Herbert | Claude King | William B. Davidson | Guy Usher | DeWitt Jennings | Robert Homans | James Donlan | Thomas E. Jackson | Frank Darien | Wallis Clark | Monica Bannister | Robert Emmett O'Connor | Lon Poff | Max Barwyn | Wade Boteler | Otto Hoffman | Perry Ivins | Margaret Mann | Pat O'Malley | Milton Kibbee | Harry C. Bradley | Charles McMurphy | Frank Fanning | Dick Rush | Lee Shumway | William Wagner | Frank Austin | Walter Percival

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

A really tight pre-code (1933) gem I captured on TCM rounded the evening: Mystery of the Wax Museum, co-starring the delightful Fay Wray (looking mesmerizing as ever). The story has been (sorta) re-done, i.e. making people into wax but still would like to see a modern take on this exact story. I think it would be even more frightening.

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