Cast:
-Boris Karloff: Imhotep(Yay! Our buddy Boris is back!)
-Zita Johann: Helen Grosvenor
-David Manners: Frank Whemple
-Arthur Byron: Sir Joseph Whemple
-Edward Van Sloan: Dr.Muller
-Bramwell Fletcher: Ralph Norton
-Noble Johnson: The Nubian
-Kathryn Byron: Frau Muller
-Leonard Mudie: Professor Pearson
-James Crane: The Pharaoh
-Henry Victor: The Saxon Warrior
Facts:
-Music by James Dietrich (uncredited)
-Cinematography by Charles J.Stumar
-Released December 22 1932
-Ardath Bey is an anagram for 'Death by Ra'.
-Karl Freund was the director
-The script for this movie was originally called "Cagliostro". Based off of the famous French "prophet"/charlatan who claimed that he had lived for many centuries.
Source: IMDB
- Mythology regarding re-animated mummies is a nineteenth-century invention.
-The film was written for Karloff
-The Mummy was the first Universal horror to have a musical score. 20 minutes total.
-In the opening credits, after a few bars, the movie plays a piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.Played in both Dracula and
Murders in the Rue Morgue.
-The cost of the film was $196,000, less than Dracula and Frankenstein.
Source: http://ejas.revues.org/7566
My Thoughts?
OK, I have to know: In horror movies when something is declared evil or says do not open or bad stay way, why is it still pursued? In the beginning of the movie when Imhotep is awakened I kept biting my nails and shaking my head saying "Don't do it, don't do it." But OF COURSE they always do it!
Boris Karloff is up to some dastardly deeds, you know reincarnating long dead princesses and causing "mysterious" deaths. In the end there is a neat effect where they who Karloff change back into a Mummy. Then there is the interrogator Edward Van Sloan.I thought "I wouldn't last ten minutes with that guy interrogating me, I would probably spill my guts in five," Which is actually quite creepy in and of itself.
Overall though,this is not one of my favorites; even if it is a classic. Each to their own.
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