Title from container. Based on a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932. Special features: Mummy dearest: a horror tradition unearthed; feature commentary with film historian Paul M. Jensen; posters and stills; theatrical trailer. Boris Karloff, Bramwell Fletcher, Arthur Byron, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan.
Summary:
The mummy, is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a team of British archaeologists. It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest, embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved, after she had been sacrificed. Alive again, he sets out to find his lost love.
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