House of Wax (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Vincent Price
Prof. Henry Jarrod
Frank Lovejoy
Det. Lt. Tom Brennan
Phyllis Kirk
Sue Allen
Carolyn Jones
Cathy Gray
Paul Picerni
Scott Andrews
Roy Roberts
Matthew Burke
Angela Clarke
Mrs. Andrews
Paul Cavanagh
Sidney Wallace
Dabbs Greer
Sgt. Jim Shane
Reggie Rymal
Barker
Charles Bronson
Igor
Oliver Blake
Man Checking His Watch (uncredited)
André de Toth
Director
Larri Thomas
Can-Can Dancer (uncredited)
Crane Wilbur
Writer
Charles Belden
Writer
Joanne Brown
Girlfriend (uncredited)
Bryan Foy
Producer
Steve Carruthers
Museum Patron (uncredited)
David Buttolph
Composer
Leo Curley
Portly Man (uncredited)
Bert Glennon
Cinematographer
Dan Dowling
Museum Patron (uncredited)
J. Peverell Marley
Cinematographer
Frank Ferguson
Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
Museum Patron (uncredited)
Rudi Fehr
Editor
Mary Lou Holloway
Millie (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Lodger (uncredited)
Mike Lally
Spectator / Man Entering Music Hall (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
Waiter (uncredited)
Richard Lightner
Detective (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Spectator / Man Entering Music Hall (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Detective (uncredited)
Eddie Parks
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
Waclaw Rekwart
Museum Patron (uncredited)
Grandon Rhodes
Surgeon (uncredited)
Riza Royce
Mrs. Flanagan (uncredited)
Sammy Shack
Observer on Street (uncredited)
Norman Stevans
Museum Patron (uncredited)
Philip Tonge
Bruce Allison (uncredited)
Merry Townsend
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Sid Troy
Observer on Street (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Ruth Whitney
Can Can Dancer (uncredited)
Shirley Whitney
Girlfriend (Uncredited)
Jack Wise
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Jack Woody
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
Charles Hibbs
Corpse in Morgue (uncredited)
Trude Wyler
(uncredited)
Nedrick Young
Leon Averill (uncredited)
Robert Burks
Other
Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist
Howard Shoup
Costume Design
Lothrop B. Worth
3D Generalist
Fritz Ford
Stand In
Charles Horvath
Stunts
Paul Stader
Stunts
Stanley Fleischer
Art Direction
Milton Gunzburg
3D Supervisor
Lyle B. Reifsnider
Set Decoration
Janet Wilson
Colorist
James McMahon
Assistant Director
Donald P. Desmond
Set Decoration
Maurice De Packh
Orchestrator
Charles Lang
Sound
Jack Woods
Still Photographer
Red Turner
Props
Joe Dreier
Associate Producer
James Kitchen
Editor
Julian Gunzburg
Visual Effects Design Consultant
Jean-Pierre Steimer
Assistant Editor
Kathryn Stuberg
Sculptor
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 16, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Budget$658,000
Box Office$23,800,000
Genres
Wiki.
House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth. A remake by Warner Bros. of their 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated remains as displays. The film premiered in New York on April 10, 1953, and had a general release on April 25, making it the first 3D film with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater and the first color 3D feature film from a major American studio (Columbia Pictures' Man in the Dark, the first major-studio black-and-white 3D feature, premiered two days before House of Wax).
In 1971, the film was re-released to theaters in 3D with a full advertising campaign. Newly struck prints of the film in Chris Condon's single-strip StereoVision 3D format were used for this release. Another major re-release occurred during the 3D boom of the early 1980s. Warner Bros. released a loose remake of the film in 2005.
The Library of Congress selected House of Wax for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2014, deeming it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".