HOUSE OF WAX 1953 MOVIE

Jarrod proposes a buyout arrangement, and Burke either eager or desperate for the money agrees in principle. They have a philosophical difference between their approaches to business. He tells Jarrod he's there to study the account books. His business partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) enters and walks partially upstairs when he is hailed by Jarrod. Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is working on a sculpture. We enter the Wax Museum with various tableaux of crimes of the past, and then enter the workshop where Prof. A solitary figure walks down the street holding an umbrella.

HOUSE OF WAX 1953 MOVIE

The movie opens with title and credits over the streets of turn of the century New York City at night in the pouring rain.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

When he meets his new assistant's beautiful friend, Sue Allen, he knows he's found the perfect model - only unbeknown to anyone, he has a very particular way of making his wax creations. This time, his displays focus on the macabre but he has yet to reproduce his most cherished work, Marie Antoinette. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit.

When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike.

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

House of wax 1953