The Mummy (1932)
Country: US
Technical: bw 72m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Synopsis:
Dislodged from his tomb by Egyptologists, a mummy searches Cairo for the reincarnation of his beloved princess. Anyone not fitting the bill does not last long.
Review:
It looks decidedly creaky now, and does not even boast any sequences of a mummy lumbering around trailing bandages, but there are a couple of memorable shots and a good flashback. More to the point, it had a vast number of sequels and derivatives to answer for, and has more or less the same plot of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb forty years later. Come to think of it, didn't they all have much the same plot? (Unimaginatively, for music this uses the same worn-out off-cut from Swan Lake as Dracula and Frankenstein previously.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 72m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Synopsis:
Dislodged from his tomb by Egyptologists, a mummy searches Cairo for the reincarnation of his beloved princess. Anyone not fitting the bill does not last long.
Review:
It looks decidedly creaky now, and does not even boast any sequences of a mummy lumbering around trailing bandages, but there are a couple of memorable shots and a good flashback. More to the point, it had a vast number of sequels and derivatives to answer for, and has more or less the same plot of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb forty years later. Come to think of it, didn't they all have much the same plot? (Unimaginatively, for music this uses the same worn-out off-cut from Swan Lake as Dracula and Frankenstein previously.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 72m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Synopsis:
Dislodged from his tomb by Egyptologists, a mummy searches Cairo for the reincarnation of his beloved princess. Anyone not fitting the bill does not last long.
Review:
It looks decidedly creaky now, and does not even boast any sequences of a mummy lumbering around trailing bandages, but there are a couple of memorable shots and a good flashback. More to the point, it had a vast number of sequels and derivatives to answer for, and has more or less the same plot of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb forty years later. Come to think of it, didn't they all have much the same plot? (Unimaginatively, for music this uses the same worn-out off-cut from Swan Lake as Dracula and Frankenstein previously.)