A great cast of genre favorites appear in this tale about murders in and around an old wax museum.
The plot is right out of a 1930's old dark house mystery or a murder in the wax museum tale, but it is kept moving by a fine cast and director. As usual there are plenty of "red herrings" in the plot.
A police investigator, Inspector Daniels (Maurice Evans) believes that the killer might by the original Jack The Ripper, but his young assistant believes otherwise. The first killing involves the owner of the Wax Museum, a character named Claude Dupree (John Carradine) who was going to seel the museum to a buyer from the United States named Amos Burns (Broderick Crawford).
There are several other bloody murders and each one is made to look more and more like the Ripper. Some of the people in town suspect the hunchback named Karkov (Steven Marlo) is the killer, but this is soon proven wrong.
The entire nasty business is finally brought to an end by Scotland Yard, and the killer is revealed to be someone I believe viewers would least suspect at all. I won't give it away here.
Directed by Georg Fenady and produced by his brother Andrew Fenady, this little time capsule of a movie captures the feel of a 30's mystery perfectly. The rest of the cast includes Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Mark edwards, Patric Knowles, Louis Hayward, Lisa Lu, Nicole Shelby, Shanni Wallis, Peggy Stewart and Ben Wright.
I first saw this on TV way back in the mid 70's and then again a few days ago on Tubi. It's a great film for genre fans for many reasons, especially the cast. RECOMMENDED!!
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