Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Horror, Mystery • 1h 18m
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Allen Vincent, Fay Wray, Frank McHugh, Edwin Maxwell, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gavin Gordon, Matthew Betz, Bull Anderson, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, William B. Davidson, Guy Usher, DeWitt Jennings, Robert Homans, James Donlan, Thomas E. Jackson, Frank Darien, Wallis Clark, Monica Bannister, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Lon Poff, Max Barwyn, Wade Boteler, Otto Hoffman, Perry Ivins, Margaret Mann, Pat O'Malley, Milton Kibbee, Harry C. Bradley, Charles McMurphy, Frank Fanning, Dick Rush, Lee Shumway, William Wagner, Frank Austin, Walter Percival
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About the film
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Leo McCarey
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UK MoC Blu-ray > Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Michael Curtiz
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Michael Curtiz
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4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Michael Curtiz
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(caveat: has a slight error)
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2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)
(Still not great)
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
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