The owner of a wax museum featuring effigies of famous murderers dies, leaving his estate unsettled, and a group of potential beneficiaries assemble: The deceased's business partner (Oscar-winning Horror mainstay Ray Milland), the heir apparent (Nicole Shelby) and her chaperone (Elsa "Bride of Frankenstein" Lanchester} and a NY carnival promoter and would-be purchaser of the museum (Broderick Crawford). All this during a London-wide scare that, after 15 years, Jack the Ripper has returned, and, coincidentally, strange things start occurring around the museum's Ripper wax figure. A series of events follows, both fortunate and not, culminating in the revelation of the culprit who ends up the one it had to be all along. I particularly enjoyed Miss Lanchester's single-mindedly mercenary attitude that, despite all the murder and mayhem, the show at the museum must go on and admissions sold.and as musuem co-owner, Mr Milland's fervor for continuing he and his partner's work gives the appearance of being a prime suspect. Shani Wallis is obliged to reprise her role of Nancy in "Oliver!", or a reasonable facsimile thereof, which really slows the action down. Otherwise, standard.
Review of Terror in the Wax Museum
