House of Wax (1953)

Original title	House of Wax
Swedish release title	Vaxkabinettet
Working title	Waxworks

Director	Andre De Toth
Screenplay	Crane Wilbur
Producer	Bryan Foy
Director of Photography	Bert Glennon J. Peverell Marley Robert Burks (as L. Robert Burks)
Music	David Buttolph
Choreography	LeRoy Prinz
Production Designer	Stanley Fleischer
Film Editor	Rudi Fehr
Production Mixer	Charles Lang George R. Groves William A. Mueller Lloyd Goldman
Assistant Director	McMahon James
Story	Charles Belden
Executive Producer	Jack L. Warner
Casting	Hoyt Bowers
Musical Arrangement	Maurice De Packh
Conductor	Ray Heindorf
Set Decorator	Lyle B. Reifsnider
Propman	Eric Stacey Red Turner
Costume Designer	Howard Shoup
Make-up / Hair	Gordon Bau George Bau
Boom Operator	Sam F. Goode (boom operator)

Vincent Price	professor Jarrod
Frank Lovejoy	löjtnant 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
Charles Bronson (as Charles Buchinsky)	Igor
Nedrick Young	Leon Averill
Dabbs Greer	sergeant Jim Shane
Reggie Rymal	museiutroparen
Philip Tonge	Bruce Alison
Darwin Greenfield	pensionatsgäst
Jack Kenney	pensionatsgäst
Ruth Warren	skurgumman
Riza Royce	Ma Flanagan
Richard Lightner (as Richard Benjamin)	detektiv
Jack Mower	detektiv
Grandon Rhodes	kirurgen
Frank Ferguson	läkaren som gör en medicinsk undersökning
Eddie Parks	vakt i bårhuset
Jack Woody	vakt i bårhuset
Oliver Blake	vikitpettern
Leo Curly	den förnäme mannen
Mary Lou Holloway	Millie
Joanne Brown	flickvän
Shirley Whitney	flickvän
Grace Lee Whitney (as Ruth Whitney)	kvinna
Trude Wyler	kvinna
Merry Townsend	biljettvaktmästaren på museet
Jack Wise	hisskötaren
Lyle Latell	kypare

Production Company	Warner Bros. Inc.
Copyright	Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.	1953-05-21
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Warner-Columbia Film AB	1973
	Warner Bros. Film AB	1953

Censorship number	123525
Date	1982-08-17
Classification	Allowed from age 15

Censorship number	98689
Date	1973-05-14
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2360 meters

Censorship number	98689
Date	1962-02-03
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2335 meters
Censored length	2151 meters

Censorship number	82353
Date	1953-05-26
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2065 meters
Censored length	1960 meters

Censorship number	82274
Date	1953-04-30
Classification	Banned
Original length	2415 meters

Aspect ratio	3-D
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Optical Stereo
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	Warnercolor
Carrier type	35 mm
Length in minutes	88 min

Original title	Mystery of the Wax Museum (Film)
Author	Carl Erickson
	Don Mullaly

Warner Bros. Studios

Burbank, Kalifornien

USA

1952

First showing	1953-04-10			USA
Release in Stockholm	1953-06-10	Rigoletto	Stockholm	Sweden	71 min
Re-release	1962		Stockholm	Sweden	85 min
	1973		Stockholm	Sweden	86 min
FIAF showing	2008-04-21
	2011-06
Cinematheque screening	2014-09-05	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
	2014-09-10	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden

Precious Images (1986)

House of Wax (1953)

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Element type	Print
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm

Script type	Cutting continuity

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	English

Black and white print	SET
Colour prints	1
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck

Type	Program folio