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- How long is House of Wax (1953)?
- House of Wax (1953) is 1 hr 28 min long.
- Who directed House of Wax (1953)?
- Andre de Toth
- Who is Prof. Henry Jarrod in House of Wax (1953)?
- Vincent Price plays Prof. Henry Jarrod in the film.
- What is House of Wax (1953) about?
- Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when the appearance of Henry's new wax sculptures occurs at the same time that a number of corpses vanish from the city morgue, art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) begins suspecting wrongdoing.