A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
Henry Victor
- The Saxon Warrior
- (scenes deleted)
Arnold Gray
- Knight
- (scenes deleted)
Florence Britton
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson
- Gentleman #2 at Cairo Party
- (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
- Inspector's Assistant
- (uncredited)
Tony Marlow
- Police Inspector
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaUnlike the other Universal classic monsters, the other Mummy movies have no direct relation to this one. The other films feature a different mummy, named Kharis, who is resurrected by tana leaves to be controlled by a modern person (similar to a voodoo zombie). The Mummy's Hand (1940) reuses footage from this film, but changes Imhotep to Kharis. It was Kharis who would appear in the other Universal and Hammer films. Imhotep wouldn't reappear in theaters until The Mummy (1999).
- GoofsImhotep has been sentenced to "the Nameless Death", yet his name is still inscribed on his coffin. The ancient Egyptians had chisels and should have been able to destroy the glyphs on the coffin that make up Imhotep's name, but it is untouched when his mummy is found.
- Quotes
[Norton laughs manically after seeing the Mummy leave the archaelogists' workshop with the sacred scroll]
Sir Joseph Whemple: What's the matter, man? For heaven's sake, what is it?
Ralph Norton: He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face!
- Crazy creditsThe credit begins over a rotating model of the Pyramids' site, then the main title 'The Mummy' is made with 3D rock letters on the side of a pyramid.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Mummy's Hand (1940)
- SoundtracksMisterioso
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
Precedes "Swan Lake" during opening credits
Featured review
I love the classic horror movies of the 1930s. They were made when the talkies were still novel and film makers were experimenting with storytelling approaches, often taking inspirations from German Expressionism (indeed 'The Mummy's director Karl Freund, who later directed another 1930s classic 'Mad Love', originally worked as a cinematographer on Fritz Lang's science fiction classic 'Metropolis' and several movies by F.W. Murnau). And it was before the Hayes Code kicked in and took a lot of the fun and thrills out of horror movies (just look at how safe and uninteresting horror became in the 1940s with a few notable exceptions e.g. the movies produced by Val Lewton). The film obviously owes a lot to 'Dracula' and Edward Van Sloan and David Manners from that film reappear here in similar roles. Karloff is brilliant as Imhotep a.k.a The Mummy, and stage actress Zita Johann is wonderful too, very striking with exotic good looks. Too bad she became very quickly disillusioned with Hollywood as she should have been a major screen star. Karloff and Johann are fantastic on screen together, and make 'The Mummy' impossible to forget. I was quite surprised to discover that this movie wasn't enormously successful when originally released, but it has obviously captured the imagination of thousands of film fans since. It is easily the best Mummy movie ever made (though I also have a fondness for Hammer's "Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' made almost forty years later), and much more entertaining and intelligent than the awful remake starring Brendan Fraser et al. 'The Mummy' stands alongside 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein', 'Island Of Lost Souls', 'Freaks', 'The Invisible Man' and 'The Black Cat' as one of the best horror movies of the 1930s, an era that has had an enormous impact on horror ever since. Highly recommended!
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Box office
- Budget
- $196,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $58
- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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