The Hendersonville Film Society will show Mystery of the Wax Museum Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
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In Brief: Michael Curtiz returned to the horror genre with Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), which was only natural since the previous year's Doctor X had been the film that had put the horror genre on the map at Warner Bros. Again, Curtiz was working in two-strip Technicolor, with the same stars — Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray — and with the same blend of expressionist horror with the snappy repartee of a very modern reporter. The most striking change in the formula was making the reporter a woman (Glenda Farrell). The results were, if anything, more successful — financially — than Doctor X. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke originally published on June 17, 2014.
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| Genre: | Horror |
| Director: | Michael Curtiz |
| Starring: | Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Arthur Edmund Carewe |
| Rated: | NR |
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