Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) on Netflix
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After a fire destroys his London wax museum, sculptor Ivan Igor opens a new museum in New York years later. Reporter Florence Dempsey investigates as corpses vanish from the morgue.
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- IMDb6.8/107,706 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
In London in 1921, sculptor Ivan Igor runs a wax museum that is losing money. His partner, Joe Worth, wants to burn it down for the insurance, and a fire leaves Igor badly injured. Twelve years later Igor is in New York City, in a wheelchair, preparing to open a new museum with the help of assistants, among them Ralph, who is engaged to Charlotte Duncan. Charlotte's roommate, Florence Dempsey, is a reporter whose editor, Jim, is losing patience with her. A tip ties George Winton to the death of his former girlfriend, Joan Gale, and when the body disappears before the autopsy, Florence begins looking into it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
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- Mystery of the Wax Museum was the last Warner Bros. feature shot in two-color Technicolor. The studio tried to swap its final Technicolor commitment for a series of shorts, but after it filmed Doctor X with an extra black-and-white unit to avoid paying Technicolor thousands of dollars, Technicolor refused.
- The film was based on an unpublished Charles S. Belden story that Warner Bros. optioned for $1,000 before receiving its copyright attorney's report; producer Charles Rogers dropped his option on Belden's similar play after the co-author of a Broadway play with a similar plot threatened to sue him.
- The very bright lights required for two-color Technicolor generated enough heat to melt wax, so many of the wax statues in the film were played by actors instead.
