House of wax

Resource Information

The work House of wax represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

House of wax

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; produced by Bryan Foy ; screen play by Crane Wilbur from a story by Charles S. Belden ; produced by Bryan Foy ; directed by Andre de Toth. Mystery of the wax museum / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screen play by Don Mullaly & Carl Erickson from the story by Charles S. Belden

Title variation

Mystery of the wax museum

Contributor

• First National Pictures, Inc
• Vitaphone Corp
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Atwill, Lionel, 1885-1946
• Belden, Charles, 1904-1954
• Blanke, Henry, 1901-1981
• Curtiz, Michael, 1888-1962
• De Toth, André, 1912-2002
• Farrell, Glenda, 1904-1971
• Foy, Bryan, 1896-1977
• Jones, Carolyn, 1930-1983
• Kirk, Phyllis, 1927-2006
• Lovejoy, Frank, 1914-1962
• McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981
• Picerni, Paul, 1922-2011
• Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
• Wilbur, Crane, 1886-1973
• trueWray, Fay, 1907-2004

Subject

• Feature films
• Horror films
• Mentally ill -- Drama
• Sculptors -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Waxworks -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Horror films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• chi
• ind
• thi
• kor
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• por
• jpn
• eng

Summary

• [House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive
• [Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• [House of wax] Cinematography, Bert Glennon, J. Peverell Marley ; music by David Buttolph ; editing, Rudi Fehr
• [Mystery of the wax museum] Photography, Ray Rennehan ; music, Cliff Hess, Bernhard Kaun ; editor, George Amy ; produced by Henry Blanke

Intended audience

MPAA rating: [House of wax] PG ; [Mystery of the wax museum] not rated

Language note

[House of wax] English, French or Spanish language soundtrack ; [Mystery of the wax museum] English language soundtrack ; [both] optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Bahasa, Thai or Korean ; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

• [House of wax] Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Dabbs Greer, Charles Buchinsky, Reggie Rymal
• [Mystery of the wax museum] Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allan Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister

Runtime

165

Target audience

pre adolescent

Technique

live action