William Gargan
Pete Willis
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Synopsis
A wounded criminal dies outside a wax museum, where an ambitious reporter hides his body among the exhibits to secure an exclusive story. A rival journalist, an anxious caretaker and the killer all want to find the corpse for different reasons. Moving it only multiplies the misunderstandings as the night's search grows more dangerous.
Cast
DirectorsWilliam C. Thomas
Behind the scenes
The project was developed under the comic working title Cheese It, Corpse. The finished film retains that mixture of macabre material and newsroom farce, using the wax museum to make a dead body alternately conspicuous and almost impossible to distinguish from its surroundings.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- William Gargan — NBC Radio · Public domain
- Ann Savage — Publicity still taken for the film. · Public domain
- Leo Gorcey — NBC Radio · Public domain
- George Zucco — Film screenshot (Producers Releasing Corporation) · Public domain
