The head and hands, tinted by my own secret process, are attached to the body after it is covered with its skin of wax.
9 seconds sound clip from the House of Wax (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:41:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Here we are. Interesting, isn't it?
- One of my pupils is about to dip a body into a bath of wax.
- Yes. The bodies are constructed separately to exact specifications, of reinforced plaster of Paris.
- Oh, uh, this is Leon, another one of my pupils. Mr. Wallace.
- I often wondered how that was done.
- It's a method of my own. Crude but adequate.
- Have you found a home for your museum?
- This is it. The building upstairs, I mean.
[...]