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Trivia An original Mummy movie poster holds the record for the most money paid for a movie poster at auction: more than $453,500. The movie's poster was as #15 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere. Boris Karloff was virtually unknown when he appeared as the creature in Frankenstein (1931). He created such a sensation that when this was made, only a year later, Universal only had to advertise "KARLOFF....'The Mummy'. The ring Boris Karloff uses has been in the possession of Forrest J Ackerman for many decades

The Mummy is a 1932 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward van Sloan.

Plot

An Ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds Imhotep's mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the archaeologists and prowls Cairo seeking the reincarnation of the soul of his ancient lover, Princess Ankh-es-en-amon. Imhotep was once mummified alive for attempting to resurrect her, and, upon finding her reincarnated, attempts to mummify her and make her his bride. In the end, she is saved when she remembers her past life and prays to the goddess Isis to save her. The young woman utters a prayer and the scroll containing the resurrection spell is burned. Imhotep dissolves into dust.

Cast

* Boris Karloff as Im-ho-tep, alias Ardath Bey
* Zita Johann as Helen Grosvenor/Princess Anck-es-en-Amon
* David Manners as Frank Whemple
* Arthur Byron as Sir Joseph Whemple
* Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Muller
* Bramwell Fletcher as Ralph Norton
* Noble Johnson as The Nubian
* Kathryn Byron as Frau Muller
* Leonard Mudie as Professor Pearson
* James Crane as The Pharaoh

Sequels and remakes

Unlike Frankenstein and Dracula, and other, later Universal horror films, this film had no sequels, but rather was semi-remade in the 1940's b-film The Mummy's Hand (1940), and its sequels, The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), The Mummy's Curse (1944), which were later spoofed in 1950's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. These focus on the mummy Kharis.

In the late 1950s British Hammer Film Productions took up the Mummy theme, beginning with The Mummy (1959), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Mummy's Tomb (1942). Hammer's follow-ups — The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The Mummy's Shroud (1966) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) — are unrelated to the earlier film or to each other.

The 1999 film The Mummy also suggests that it is a remake of the 1932 movie, and may be considered as such in that its titular character is Imhotep, resurrected from the dead by the Scroll of Thoth and out to find the present-day embodiment of the soul of his beloved Anck-su-namun, but develops there from a different story line, in common with most postmodern remakes of classic horror and science-fiction films. It spawned a sequel in 2001, The Mummy Returns, and a spin-off of that sequel, The Scorpion King, in 2002. A third sequel, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, is planned for 2008.

Mummy Collection DVD set
For the first time ever, the original The Mummy film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Boris Karloff, and four timeless sequels, featuring legendary action Lon Chaney, Jr. and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day
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Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in screen history as a mummy who is accidentally revived after 3700 years.

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