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She’s putting on a bimbo act to get at Burke’s money. In a later scene, we discover Cathy’s voice is an octave or two lower. This means Burke can get his payout, a fact which he brags about to his perky, blonde, child-voiced dancer girlfriend Cathy. The story picks up several years later, just after authorities have declared Jarrod dead. When Jarrod refuses to go along with him, Burke knocks the artist out and burns the museum down around him. This frustrates his financial business partner, Matthew Burke, into fantasies of insurance fraud. He gets the respect of critics but few paying visitors. Price plays sculptor Henry Jarrod, a man who treats his waxwork creations as art rather than spectacle. “I call this one Meditation on Pepto-Bismol.” Contrary to popular belief, both color and remakes came early to Hollywood.
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In fact, it was the last two-color Technicolor feature film. 1933’s pre-code Mystery of the Wax Museum was also in color. Since Dark Castle remade House of Wax in 2005, it’s also tempting to think of this as being the “original.” But the 1953 House of Wax also a remake.
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And although I have never seen the movie in its original 3D form, I can’t help but think that’s probably overselling it a bit. The original trailers promised that the result was like being in the middle of the action. Because color was not common until the late sixties, it’s easy to mistake House of Wax as being “colorized.” But not only was it in color, it was also 3D and featured a stereo soundtrack, the first 3D movie to do either.