House of wax

Resource Information

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

Label

House of wax

Statement of responsibility

[presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Bryan Foy ; screenplay by Crane Wilbur ; directed by Andre de Toth. Mystery of the Wax Museum / a Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture ; directed by Michael Curtiz

Creator

• House of wax (Motion picture : 1953)

Contributor

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

Subject

• Body snatching
• Body snatching -- United States -- Drama
• Drama
• Escultores -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Attempted murder
• Attempted murder -- United States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Fraude -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Horror films
• Horror films
• Insurance fraud
• Insurance fraud -- United States -- Drama
• Sculptors
• Sculptors -- United States -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures) -- Video recordings
• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Waxworks
• Waxworks -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Horror films
• Teatro
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Language

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

Summary

• House of wax: A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing the friend of his assistant's lovely girlfriend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette
• Mystery of the wax museum: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor

Related

• Mystery of the Wax Museum

Awards note

House of wax was named to the National Film Registry in 2014 by Library of Congress

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Credits: Directors of photography: Bert Glennon, Peverell Marley ; film editor, Rudi Fehr ; music, David Buttolph

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG (House of wax) ; Not rated (Mystery of the Wax Museum)

Language note

• House of wax: English (Dolby stereo. surround, Dolby mono), dubbed French (Dolby mono.) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) dialogue; optional subtitles in Bahasa, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish or Thai; English closed captions for the hearing impaired (bonus material may not be closed-captioned)
• Mystery of the wax museum: English dialogue; optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or Thai; English closed captions for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.H68 2009

PerformerNote

• House of wax cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni
• Mystery of the Wax Museum cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Runtime

165

Target audience

adolescent

Technique

live action