Name: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1940-09-06
Duration: 63 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Eddie Marr

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

FOUR TIMES IN 18 EERIE MINUTES CHARLIE CHAN FACES DEATH! -- Death from a poison dart! -- Death from a streaking bullet! -- Death from a gleaming dagger!

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.

CrimeMysteryThriller

DirectorLynn Shores

WriterJohn Larkin

StatusReleased

LanguageEnglish

Release DateSeptember 6, 1940

Runtime1h 3m

Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection

Includes: Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, City in Darkness, Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Murder Over New York, Dead Men Tell, Charlie Chan in Rio, Castle in the Desert, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat, Black Magic, The Jade Mask, The Scarlet Clue, The Red Dragon, The Shanghai Cobra, Dark Alibi, Shadows Over Chinatown, Dangerous Money, The Trap

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@Geronimo1967

June 23, 20227/10

C. Henry Gordon is a bit like Leo Genn, or Sir Cedric Hardwicke - you always recognise his voice long before you see his face. In this jolly mystery for "Chan" (Sidney Toler) and "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung), they find themselves in a macabre wax museum run by our aforementioned thespian - here playing the bonkers plastic surgeon ("Dr. Cream"). They are on the trail of a murderer who has absconded from justice and hopes to avail himself of the services of our good doctor to change his appearance and then to seek revenge on the sleuth who helped get him convicted in the first place. It all culminates in a radio show that serves as a criminologist's wet dream - and the journey to this entertaining denouement is a sort of hybrid between the "Mummy" and "What's My Line". Again, I feel a little bit sorry for poor old Jimmy, who can never do right for doing wrong - and who is always on the wrong end of honourable father's acerbic tongue, but that just goes with the territory I guess.