Masques de cire

Titre original : Mystery of the Wax Museum

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

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Une journaliste enquête sur le suicide de Joan Gale et sur la disparition de son cadavre. Ses recherches la mène dans un musée de cire où travaille un sinistre sculpteur.Une journaliste enquête sur le suicide de Joan Gale et sur la disparition de son cadavre. Ses recherches la mène dans un musée de cire où travaille un sinistre sculpteur.Une journaliste enquête sur le suicide de Joan Gale et sur la disparition de son cadavre. Ses recherches la mène dans un musée de cire où travaille un sinistre sculpteur.

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6,8/10

7,2 k

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Anecdotes
This film was produced before the Production Code. When it was remade 20 years later, as L'Homme au masque de cire (1953), all references to drug use were removed, and a character was changed from a junkie to an alcoholic.

Gaffes
Ivan Igor says that Jean Paul Marat's assassin, Charlotte Corday, was his mistress. Not so - they had never met until she came to his office posing as a courier and quickly stabbed him to death. After her execution a few days later, she was found to be virgo intacta.

Citations
Florence: Listen, Joan Gale's body was swiped from the morgue, have you ever heard of such a thing as a death mask?
Jim: I used to be married to one.
Florence: Then it came to life and divorced you, I know all about that.

Versions alternatives
This film was shot in two versions. One camera unit shot the film in two-color Technicolor. A second camera unit shot the scenes at the same time in black and white. The black and white version was meant for theaters who could not afford the higher rental cost of the color prints.

Connexions
Edited into Mame (1974)

Bandes originales
Agitato
(uncredited)
Music by Bernhard Kaun
Stock cue played over main titles

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Remember this forgotten masterpiece

A genuinely frightening film from Michael Curtiz, jack of no trades and master of all. Many of the tricks of classic 1930's horror are here, including the opening scene set in a dark, rainy London street, the long shadows on the wall, lengthy periods of silence, and all timed to perfection. Only the faster-than-the-speed-of-sound dialogue of Glenda Farrell truly lets the film down. But other than that it is a gothic masterpiece, an underrated movie probably due to the fact that it lay undiscovered, thought lost, for over half a century. Far more inventive and imaginative than the majority of horror films made today.