The Mummy(Movie, 1932)

Name: The Mummy
Genre: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1932
Duration: T01:13:00
Rating: 3.4

| 1h 13min | Genres: Horror, Drama, Fantasy

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 250 votes)

The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was adapted from a treatment written by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. Released by Universal Studios as a part of the Universal Classic Monsters franchise, the film stars Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan and Arthur Byron. In the film, Karloff stars as Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian mummy who was killed for attempting to resurrect his dead lover, Anck-es-en-Amon. After being discovered and accidentally brought to life by a team of archaeologists, he disguises himself as a modern Egyptian named Ardath Bey and searches for Anck-es-en-Amon, whom he believes has been reincarnated in the modern world. Whilst less profitable ... ()

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About The Mummy

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.

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Trailer for The Mummy + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

THE MUMMY (1932) | Trailer | CLASSIC MONSTERS(Trailer, 1:58)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: California

Plays in: Egypt, Thebes, Cairo

Derivative works/Adaptions: "The Mummy" (movie, 1999), "The Mummy" (movie, 2017)

Made by: Universal Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/22/1932 (World premiere: 01/01/1932)

Cast: Boris Karloff, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie, Zita Johann, Arthur Byron, Bramwell Fletcher, Wild Bill Elliott, Henry Victor, Eddie Kane, Arnold Gray, Florence Britton, Leyland Hodgson, C. Montague Shaw, Pat Somerset

Director: Karl Freund

Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr., Stanley Bergerman

Screenwriter: John L. Balderston, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer

Film Editor: Milton Carruth

Director of Photography: Charles J. Stumar

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"A Múmia"

"Die Mumie"

"La mòmia"

"La momia"

"La momie"

"Η Μούμια"

"La mummia"

"Cagliostro"

"De Mummie"

"Im-Ho-Tep"

"King of the Dead"

"A Múmia"

"Mumien vaknar"

"Мумия"

Keywords: virgin, archaeologist, priestess, ancient curse, egypt, eternal love, mummy, resurrection, black and white, goddess, african, buried tomb, excavation, sorcerer, ancient scroll, museum, incantation, pre-code, trance

Budget: 196,000 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)