The Mummy
Studio: Universal Pictures
Starring: Boris Karloff, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan
Director: Karl Freund
Writer: John L. Balderston, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr., Stanley Bergerman
The Mummy is a 1932 American supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund, and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, and Arthur Byron. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was adapted from a treatment written by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer.
Trivia
- Schayer found none, although the plot bears a strong resemblance to a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "The Ring of Thoth". Schayer and writer Nina Wilcox Putnam learned about Alessandro Cagliostro and wrote a nine-page treatment entitled Cagliostro.
- The story, set in San Francisco, was about a 4,000-year-old magician who survives by injecting nitrates.
- Pleased with the Cagliostro concept, Laemmle hired John L. Balderston to write the script.
Filming Locations
- California
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 6 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (September 9, 1959)
All runs on record (7):
- September 9, 1959 (Wednesday - Saturday)Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- November 18 - 19, 2000Horror 2000w/ Dracula
- September 13 - 14, 2007Summer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ The Old Dark House
- October 5 - 7, 2012UNIVERSAL PICTURES Part 1: 1930-1935w/ The Black Cat
- August 28 - 30, 2018Summer 2018w/ The Black Cat
- October 5 - 6, 2019UNIVERSAL PICTURES 1931-1935w/ The Old Dark House
- October 28 - 29, 2023Universal Pictures: Horror and Morew/ The Black Cat