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Rating: 7 stars

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black and white universal monster Egypt cairo Curse murder archeology Pre-Code

All movies seen on 07/02/2018

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The Mummy (1932)

Directed by Karl Freund

Horror | Supernatural

Most recently watched by sleestakk, archstanton43, eduardovictory, tylermager, schofizzy, themarc

Overview

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

Rated NR | Length 73 minutes

Actors

Boris Karloff | Zita Johann | David Manners | Arthur Byron | Edward Van Sloan | Bramwell Fletcher | Noble Johnson | Kathryn Byron | Leonard Mudie | James Crane | Henry Victor | Arnold Gray | Florence Britton | Jack Deery | Bill Elliott | C. Montague Shaw | Leyland Hodgson | Eddie Kane | Tony Marlow | George Regas | Nick Shaid | Pat Somerset | Arthur Tovey

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I remember so little about this that I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever watched the whole thing! Weird that the actual mummy is nearly non-existent in this first film. Still, Karloff looks great, and very convincing, as the mummy for the brief amount of time he’s shown in costume. Zita Johann is exotically beautiful in this and you can tell this is pre-code just by the dress and nightgown she wears compared to what women wear and how they act in later MUMMY movies in the ‘40s.

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