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Is this the one where....

posted 8 years ago by ben-thayer
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Is this the mummy film that shows via flashback what happened centuries previous in Egypt, why he was interned in such a manner, and the reasons? Seems as if I recall him being wide awake while being wrapped with linen, and they had removed his tongue so he couldn't cry out to the gods for help. Then there was the gruesome scene where all the slaves are killed to prevent any disclosure.

Last year I saw the 1932 version of The Mummy, and it didn't have any flashback scenes...so it was the later films that had the flashback.

I recall seeing several mummy films from the 30s and 40s on Shock Theater when I was 10-12 (early 70s), and I vividly recall the flashback scene in more than one of them.

[–] Costumer (1829) 5 years ago

This movie does have that scene. But you are incorrect. There were flashbacks in the 1932 mummy. In fact they are the same scenes. They were reused for this movie. The only difference is they substituted Tom Tyler (who played Kharis is this movie) for Boris Karloff (who played Imhotep in the 1932 mummy). For some reason they decided to change the names of the characters.

[–] twinA (4921) 5 years ago

Pretty good info. Thanks for clarifying.

One of the reasons why he may have been entombed alive is because they did not want to make a martyr out of him, sentencing the death penalty. He was already a very powerful man when he was alive, in touch with supernatural forces, so him being a freak of nature in his mummified state later on was not the result of the punishment itself but a restraint death would not have given. This is my commentary on the scene.

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