This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The very first of only seven films directed by William Thomas. and his one oscar nomination was as Producer on the wartime documentary "We Refuse to Die!". The biggest recognizable name in here is Bowery Boy Dead End kid Leo Gorcey. Sound and picture quality are pretty rough. SO much talking. Yakkity yak. Mostly a snore, but some of the action DOES take place in a wax museum, so that's a little exciting. Took us about twenty minutes to get there, where things pick up for a little while. Everyone is looking for the dead body... the cops, and battling reporters. Ann Savage is "Sue", and she seems to be the star of the thing. More yakking. Body, body, who's got the body? Script is pretty lame. Lots of editors and reporters yelling back and forth at each other. Gorcey is all over the first half of the film, then he disappears for the second half. I'd skip this one, aint no thang. Not so good.

This one is rather boring and could have been better if they left out the lame comedy (mainly from Clutch Tracy) and turned it into a pure mystery-thriller! This one really is "stagy" and seems to drag in lots of places. For me, the only parts that are somewhat good are with George Zucco and he's not in the film all that much it's mainly the other cast members that take center stage or should I say center "stagy"?! This one is a case of who has the corpse now and takes place mainly in a wax museum or Sue Gallagher's (Savage) upstairs apartment, which is above and within the wax museum.The film is "okay" I guess but definitely NOT Zucco's nor Savage's best film - this might be their worst film or pretty close to it.3/10

Ann Savage and William Gargan star as rival newspaper reporters in this wild murder comedy complete with wax dummies, a wandering corpse, dumb cops, and George Zucco at his sinister best.Leo Gorcey is very funny as a helper and general chatterbox at the Last Gangster Wax Museum. He toys around with the electric chair exhibit and tosses off a fair number of Bowery Boys-style malapropisms ("It's an optical delusion"). Zucco opens the picture by creeping into a hotel room, shooting a man and stealing a small case of diamonds; besides the mysterious Zucco and the adventurous reporters, police detectives Paul Hurst (dumb flatfoot) and Don Beddoe (harassed and exasperated lieutenant) are soon also attempting to track down the murdered man's body, which appears then disappears more than once.A silly subplot concerns Savage and Gargan—a onetime romantic couple for whom, as Gorcey puts it, "the milk of romance slightly curdled." Gargan persists in disrupting Savage's efforts toward solving the case and landing the big story, for reasons that are less than clear; their conflict is supposed to be cute but is instead mildly irritating. Overall, it's predictable but still very enjoyable; while the dialog may be lowbrow, it's still moderately clever, and good humor and energetic performances make up for lack of suspense and surprises. Good fun for fans of B movies—or any of these stars.

Odd, isn't it, how you'll rent or buy a minor title on DVD that you'd likely ignore if it appeared on, say, TCM? This obscurity at least looks promising: the cover's enticing - a hallmark of Alpha Video - and the cast features long-time low-rent bad guy George Zucco, Bowery "Boy" Leo Gorcey, and Ann Savage, the memorable harpy in the cult fave DETOUR ('45). The slight plot takes place at a decrepit horror museum - characters pass thru a wobbly turnstile constructed by shop class dropouts- and involves a corpse that assorted characters constantly move or misplace for silly reasons. For odious comic relief, they're dogged by a dimbulb detective who makes Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes. For a bare bones production, the players work hard. Zucco has never been slimier, and master language mangler Gorcey is good for some weak chuckles. The script, however, ain't exactly THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY ('55). With sharper dialogue, this might have made a decent farcial stage play, but the characters' casual attitude about handling the corpse is more distasteful than amusing.