| RELEASED IN 1932 BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES, THE MUMMY WAS A SOMBER, POETIC FILM IN WHICH BORIS KARLOFF (BILLED AS "KARLOFF THE UNCANNY") PLAYED IM-HO-TEP, A 3000 YEAR OLD EGYTIAN PRIEST WHO HAD BEEN BURRIED ALIVE FOR TRYING TO REVIVE HIS DEAD LOVER. THE FILM, DIRECTED BY KARL FREUND, WAS STRUCTURED MUCH LIKE UNIVERSAL'S EARILER HIT, DRACULA, AND IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE SEVERAL LATER PRODUCTIONS OF DRACULA BORROWED THE REINCARNATED LOVER THEME,AN ELEMENT NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL DRACULA OR IN THE NOVEL, FROM THE MUMMY. |
