![]() ![]() Sue leaves through an open window out onto the roof. She screams which brings the household upstairs. Cathy is dead and Jarrod is there in the room. Sue goes up to her room to get some money from Cathy. Flannigan (Riza Royce) confronts Sue upon her return from a job interview to get her back rent. Cathy expresses no sorrow for Burke, as she has found a new sugar daddy. At their boarding house Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) is helping Cathy get dressed for her evening out. The cleaning lady (Ruth Warren) screams when she discovers the dead body. He rigs a rope in the elevator, carries Burke to the elevator door, ties the loose end around Burke's neck and throws the body down the elevator shaft. He takes the money, but before he can exit he hears the cleaning lady on the stairs. He turns off the lights then attacks Burke with a rope. Jarrod is there, horribly scarred from the fire wearing all black. Burke returns to his office, opens his safe and pulls out the money. He confides to Cathy the insurance settled with a check this morning and he's already cashed it. He tells Cathy he and Jarrod were friends and no trace of him was found after the fire. At a dance Burke is entertaining a young lady, Cathy Gray (Carolyn Jones). The gas ignites blowing out the front of the building. He is knocked out again by Burke and left in the burning building. Jarrod works desperately with buckets of water to douse the fire, but it is a losing battle. He returns to the workroom and continues his fight with the now revived Jarrod. He goes upstairs as the place begins to catch fire. Burke douses the workroom and display area with a flammable liquid and turns on the gas light spigots. Burke and Jarrod fight, and at one point Jarrod is knocked out. Burke starts a few more fires, with Jarrod quickly working to save his wax figures. It starts a fire that Jarrod quickly extinguishes. Burke lights the Marie Antoinette wax figure's dress with a match. Jarrod is horrified by the proposal, and opposes it categorically. He is impatient for a financial settlement and proposes an insurance fire. Burke was eavesdropping from the upstairs room and heard everything. Wallace explains he's going to Egypt for three months, so no decision on investment can take place prior to his return. Wallace is impressed, but Jarrod explains that he's never satisfied with certain aspects of the finished products. ![]() Bruce Allison (Phillip Tonge) and Sidney Wallace (Paul Cavanagh) arrive and are given a brief tour of the wax museum. ![]() A potential investor is scheduled to see Jarrod that very evening. ![]() 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. However, I'll be back in three months - then I'll be glad to discuss the deal.The movie opens with title and credits over the streets of turn of the century New York City at night in the pouring rain. Unfortunately, I'm leaving this weekend for Egypt. You know, I might take you up on that offer, if my lawyers approve and the price is right. Wallace, would you care to become a partner in this venture? Would you buy him out? Thats exactly what I've been telling him. What you need here is exploitation - more advertising. Professor, if people knew what you have inside these walls, you couldn't accomodate the crowds. They're inserted into the sockets from inside by way of the hollow neck before the head is attached to the body.įorgive me, my dear, for discussing your intimate secrets. They're made of glass, more's the pity, the exact size and color of the original. People say they can see my Marie Antoinette breathe that her breast rises and falls. ![]()
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