Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Mystery of the Wax Museum ★★★ 1933

Rarely seen, vintage horror classic about a wax-dummy maker who, after a disfiguring fire, resorts to murder and installs the wax-covered bodies of his victims in his museum. Famous for its pioneering use of two-strip Technicolor. Remade in 1953 in 3-D as “House of Wax.” 77m/C VHS . Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Holmes Herbert; D: Michael Curtiz; W: Carl Erickson, Don Mullaly; C: Ray Rennahan.