(you tube)MIDNIGHT AT MADAME TASSUAD'S-1936-Sir Clive Cheyne (James Carew) makes a bet with his friend that he will stay overnight alone at “The Chamber of Horrors” section of Madame Tassaud's wax museum. Meanwhile Cheyne has a problem with Nicholas (Kim Peacock; also one of the screenwriters) the philandering, neer do well fiancé of his niece Carol (Lucille Lisle). Nick is in cahoots with Newton (Charles Oliver), an associate of Cheyne's, who owns Cheyne money. Jerry Melville (Patrick Barr), a snooping reporter tries to get the low down on the engagement. He has a comical assistant named Stubbs (future first Dr. Who star William Hartnell). After Melville exposes Nicholas' illicit affair, he goes to the museum to save Cheyne who's going to be killed by Newton's gang. Wax figures of Mae West, Marie Antoinette and Lawrence of Arabia also appear.
This British production was the second to last film directed by George Pearson who way back in 1914 made the first movie adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story (A Study in Scarlet).
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