However, leading lady Phyllis Kirk cast some doubt on this story. Rumor has it that WB president Jack Warner ordered de Toth not to wear the accessory on the set of House of Wax, lest anyone ridicule the studio for giving a 3D project to a one-eyed filmmaker.
Hence, the native Hungarian often wore an eyepatch. IRONICALLY, THE DIRECTOR LACKED DEPTH PERCEPTION.Īs a child, André de Toth lost his left eye in an accident. On April 8, 1953, Columbia Pictures’ Man in the Dark premiered, making it the first 3D movie ever released by a major studio. The industry’s biggest players rushed to cash in. At a time when cinemas had to compete with television, 3D looked like the next big thing, a spectacle that could draw viewers out of their living rooms and into the nearest movie house. This really caught Hollywood’s attention. Produced independently, Bwana Devil ballooned into a surprise smash, grossing more than $1.3 million in its first month in just 30 theaters. Yet audiences didn’t truly embrace this innovation until some 30 years later with the release of Bwana Devil-a Technicolor thriller about man-eating lions. The first feature film to use this technology was the silent drama Power of Love, which dates all the way back to 1922. Three-dimensional cinema is older than you might think. IT WAS ONLY THE SECOND 3D MOVIE TO BE RELEASED BY A MAJOR STUDIO. On the 65th anniversary of the movie's release, join us on a tour of the legendary House of Wax keep your hands off the mannequins, though-you might not want to know what lies beneath.
In the process it also walloped the box office and turned Vincent Price into a horror movie icon. A remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum, André de Toth’s House of Wax solidified the 3D movie craze of the 1950s.
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