"The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor."
Lionel Atwill
as Ivan Eigor
Glenda Farrell
as Florence Dempsey
Allen Vincent
as Ralph Burton
Fay Wray
as Charlotte Duncan
Frank McHugh
as Editor Jim
Edwin Maxwell
as Worth, Eigor's bootlegger partner
Arthur Edmund Carewe
as Professor Darcy
Gavin Gordon
as George Winton
Matthew Betz
as Hugo, deafmute sculptor
Bull Anderson
as Otto, museum janitor
Holmes Herbert
as Dr. Rasmussen
Claude King
as Mr. Galatalin
William B. Davidson
as Detective (Uncredited)
Guy Usher
DeWitt Jennings
as Police Captain, 12th Precinct
Robert Homans
as Desk Sergeant, 12th Precinct
James Donlan
as Morgue Attendant (Uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
as Detective at Morgue
Frank Darien
as Autopsy Surgeon (Uncredited)
Wallis Clark
as Autopsy Surgeon's Assistant (Uncredited)
Monica Bannister
as Joan Gale
Robert Emmett O'Connor
as Police Sergeant by Christmas tree
Lon Poff
as Tall Thin Henchman (Uncredited)
Max Barwyn
as Museum Visitor (Uncredited)
Wade Boteler
as Ambrose (Uncredited)
Otto Hoffman
as Igor's Assistant (Uncredited)
Perry Ivins
as Copy Editor (Uncredited)
Margaret Mann
as Wax Figure of Queen Victoria (Uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
as Reporter (Uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Charles McMurphy
as Policeman in Prison (Uncredited)
Frank Fanning
as Policeman (Uncredited)
Dick Rush
Lee Shumway
William Wagner
as Morgue Attendant's Assistant (Uncredited)
Frank Austin
as Winton's Valet (Uncredited)
Walter Percival
as Winton's Attorney (Uncredited)
Michael Curtiz
Director
Don Mullaly
Screenplay
Carl Erickson
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Ray Rennahan
Director of Photography
Ray Romero
Makeup Artist
Perc Westmore
George Amy
Editor
Henry Blanke
Producer
Frank Shaw
Assistant Director
Rex Wimpy
Special Effects
Charles Belden
Story
William Koenig
Production Manager
Everett Alton Brown
Sound
Hal B. Wallis
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Lee Katz
Herbert Plews
Property Master
Claude Hutchinson
Gaffer
Frank B. Good
Additional Camera
Chuck Davis
Grip
Bernhard Kaun
Original Music Composer
Leo F. Forbstein
Conductor
Floyd Lee
Richard Towers
Scotty Welbourne
Still Photographer
Cliff Hess
Additional Music
Fred Applegate
Continuity
Thad Brooks Jr.
Assistant Camera
Arthur Pierson
Bob Bonner
W. Howard Greene
Roy Musgrave
Camera Operator