num_pages: 163
description: The Depression-era vogue for horror and the supernatural produced some of Hollywoood's most memorable chillers, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount), Frankenstein , (Universal), and King Kong (RKO). At Warner Brothers, the main entry was Mystery of the Wax Museum , directed by Michael Curtiz, a grand thriller of 1933 in which Fay Wray (Who would appear opposite Kong later that same year) was threatened with waxy immortality by the maniacal Lionel Atwill.
language: English
title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
titlecomplete: Mystery of the Wax Museum (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr