A Ghostly Comedy and Mystery-Thriller

A Ghostly Comedy and Mystery-Thriller
Thursday, February 8th

Join us for an evening of Great Shows and a Chinese Dinner - movies are FREE, just pay for your dinner!!
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6:00PM – Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) – 77min

Stars - Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh
Director – Michael Curtiz
Based on "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden

Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) is the sculptor at a famous wax museum in London. When his partner burns down the museum for the insurance money, Igor is trapped inside. Years later he re-emerges in New York as the curator of a new wax museum, which boasts incredibly lifelike statues.
Mystery of the Wax Museum was pre-code production by Warner Bros. and filmed in two-color Technicolor giving the film an eerie watercolor-like atmosphere. A follow-up to the earlier horror film Doctor X (1932), Mystery involved many of the same cast and crew and were the last two fiction films made using this process. Mystery of the Wax Museum has obvious similarities to the later and more famous House of Wax (1953) with Vincent Price, but relies on mystery more than horror elements.

Ratings –
6.8/10 IMDb
92% Rotten Tomatoes
92% Google users
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7:15 pm – Topper (1937) - 97min | Comedy, Mystery

Stars: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Director: Norman Z. McLeod

A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs, Cosmo Topper. Producer Hal Roach's Topper series of supernatural comedy films were inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith. Topper was such a hit it inspired 2 sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (1938) and Topper Returns (1941).

Ratings –
7.2/10 IMDb
89% Rotten Tomatoes
89% Google users
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