''Terror in the Wax Museum'' is a 1973 American

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mystery film directed by Georg Fenady and starring

Ray Milland Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. He is remembered for his Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Award-winning ...

, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, John Carradine,

Broderick Crawford William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Willie Stark in ''All t ...

, Louis Hayward,

Patric Knowles Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995), better known as Patric Knowles, was an English film actor. Born in Horsforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, he made his film debut in 1932, and played either first or second fi ...

, and

Shani Wallis Shani Wallis (born 14 April 1933) is a British actress and singer, who has worked in theatre, film, and television in both her native United Kingdom and in the United States. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she is perhaps best ...

. The film was released by Cinerama Releasing Corporation in May 1973. It is set in

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at the end of the

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Plot

The setting is the 1890s. In the London wax museum of Claude Dupree, known for its collection of famous figures, someone is killing the guests. When Dupree is murdered, Margaret Collins, his niece, decides to continue the family business, which has long attracted the attention of the police. The murder of the wax museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principals who wants to own this piece of property, whether Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years, or whether a wax statue or two has come to life.

Cast

as Harry Flexner * Elsa Lanchester as Julia Hawthorn * Maurice Evans as Inspector Daniels * John Carradine as Claude Dupree * Louis Hayward as Tim Fowley *

as Mr. Southcott *

as Amos Burns *

as Laurie Mell * Mark Edwards as Sergeant Michael Hawks * Lisa Lu as Madame Yang *Steven Marlo as Karkov *Nicole Shelby as Margaret Collins * Ben Wright as First Constable *Mathilda Calnan as First Charwoman * Peggy Stewart as Second Charwoman *Leslie Thompson as Constable Parker *Don Herbert as Jack the Ripper - Wax Figure *Judy Wetmore as

Lizzie Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ost ...

- Wax Figure *Jo Williamson as Mrs. Borden - Wax Figure *George Farina as Bluebeard - Wax Figure *Diane Wahrman as Girl in Red - Wax Figure *Rosa Huerta as

Lucretia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (; ca-valencia, Lucrècia Borja, links=no ; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was a Spanish-Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She reigned as the Governo ...

- Wax Figure *Ben Brown as

Attila the Hun Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and Ea ...

- Wax Figure *Rickie Weir as

Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child a ...

- Wax Figure *Paul Wilson as

Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan ...

- Wax Figure *Ralph Cunningham as Willie Grossman - Wax Figure *Don Williamson as Constable Henry Bolt - Wax Figure *Evelyn Reynolds as Flower Woman - Wax Figure * Sandy Helberg as Newsboy (uncredited)

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* * * * 1973 horror films 1970s comedy horror films 1970s thriller films 1970s mystery films 1970s historical comedy films 1970s historical horror films 1973 films American mystery films American horror thriller films Films set in London Films set in the 1890s American historical films Cultural depictions of Jack the Ripper Cultural depictions of Lizzie Borden Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia Cultural depictions of Attila the Hun Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette Cultural depictions of Ivan the Terrible Cinerama Releasing Corporation films 1973 comedy films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Georg Fenady 1970s American films {{comedy-horror-film-stub