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After vanishing for nearly two decades, "The Ghost Goes West" materializes again, this time on the Brattle's screen. Combining slapstick and fantasy, Robert Sherwood's imaginative screenplay portrays the adventures of an ocean-going phantom...
House of Wax may have three dimensions; the plot has one, at best. It used to be known as The Murder in the Waxwork Museum or something close to that, when it was a flattie. If you've seen The Phantom of the Opera or the Hunchback of Notre Dame you have the general outline already. The only thing the latter pictures have that House of Wax doesn't is scenes of people jumping, falling, or being pushed from high places. Hollywood has missed a trick...
...Phantom Crew. The cramped cockpit of the X-3 has no room for anyone except Bill Bridgeman, but the tense men watching the oscilloscopes can perform all the duties of a well-trained crew. They bend electronically over Bridgeman's shoulders, watch banks of instruments that he would have no time to glance at. They warn him when some unfelt danger is still small, but growing...
...feel warm identification with the man in the air. They leave the ground when he does, hurtle through the sky in his ungentled airplane. Their hearts skip a beat when his does-and sometimes before. Their muscles tense with his. Bill Bridgeman feels the same intimate way about his phantom crew miles away on the ground. "They're right with me," he says, "watching every little thing. I don't even have to ask them. They'll tell me if any thing's wrong...
...During its first attempt, it did not fly faster than a modern jet bomber, and at this speed, far below its design speed, its penguin wings probably gave it little margin of stability. After a stint of unstable flopping and wobbling, the engines began to act up. The phantom crew in the trailer sensed the danger instantly...