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Title: Mummy is Classic, but resembles Original Dracula(30)
Review: If you took this film and interchanged it with the charcaters from Browning's Dracula of 1930....well just a thought.Edward Van Sloan is the doctor who again insists that"we mus destroy it! David Manners is the romantic lead.Film really does resemble Lugosi Dracula(30). Karloff and Jack Pierce spent hours and hours with make up sessions and we only see the mummified mummy for a quick minute or two!However, the real terror and chills comes from Karloff's performance as the unmummified revived Ardeth Bey who is just as menacing as the "mummy". I liked the opening scenes best involving the archeologists at the 1920s dig site headquarters.Film tends to prod along at a slow pace, but is still good Universal creaky horror.
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