Imhotep, prior to having rejuvenated after the time-skip, was designed to look like the mummy of Seti I but ended up looking like the mummy of Ramses III instead.
Brown Note Being: Whemple's assistant experiences instant insanity, left Laughing Mad after catching a glimpse of the mummy's shambling corpse.Buried Alive: Imhotep's punishment for the sacrilege of trying to bring the dead back to life.In the end, all he wants is to be reunited with his love. Ancient Tomb: Princess Anck-es-en-Amon's tomb, but we never get to see inside it.Ancient Egypt: Featured comparatively briefly in Imhotep's vision of the past.The name Imhotep was also used for the central antagonist in the 1999 film version of The Mummy, which is regarded as a remake, but is only loosely based on the original film. Imhotep is considered to be the first architect and engineer and physician in early history. The name Imhotep is taken from a Third Dynasty Egyptian chancellor and high priest in service to the king, Djoser.As with many of his earlier horror works, Boris Karloff was credited only as KARLOFF in the film (all capitals).Dracula also starred David Manners, who plays Frank Whemple in The Mummy. Chandler is best known for playing the role of Mina Seward in Tod Browning's 1931 classic Dracula. Actor Bramwell Fletcher was married to actress Helen Chandler from 1935 to 1940 when they divorced.For the rest of his scenes, where he assumes the alias of Ardath Bey, he has very little makeup.
Boris Karloff spends only nine-minutes onscreen in full mummy makeup.He has been quoted as saying that the application and removal of the makeup was "the most trying ordeal I ever endured". The makeup applications used to transform actor Boris Karloff into the aged mummy Imhotep was a painstaking and uncomfortable ordeal for Karloff.Montague Shaw, Pat Somerset and Arthur Tovey were all uncredited for their participation in this film. Leyland Hodgson, Eddie Kane, Tony Marlow, C.Scenes involving the Saxon warrior were deleted from the final cut of the film.Exterior Egyptian sequences were filmed at Red Rock Canyon State Park and the Mojave Desert in California. The Mummy was filmed at the Universal Studios lot between September and November of 1932.The tagline for this film is "It comes to life!".As it is a website with user-submitted information, some of the data listed here, including character names may be inaccurate. Note: The following is taken from the full credits list for this entry on IMDB. The film also stars David Manners as Frank Whemple, Arthur Byron as Sir Joseph Whemple, Edward Van Sloan as Doctor Muller and Bramwell Fletcher as the shrieking Ralph Norton. The film stars Boris Karloff in the role of evil mummy Imhotep with Zita Johann taking on the female lead of Helen Grosvenor. It premiered theatrically in the United States on December 22nd, 1932. Balderston based on a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. It was directed by Karl Freund with a script written by John L. Although Universal Pictures produced several mummy-related movies, the original film is a self-contained story with no connection to the others. The Mummy is an American feature film of the horror genre and a part of the " Universal Monsters" film series. Balderston Nina Wilcox Putnam Richard Schayer