An ancient Egyptian high priest, Imhotep, is raised from the dead during a 1921 British Archaeology expedition.

Ten years later, a mysterious visitor to the same site leads the scientists to the burial site of the princess Ank-Sen-Amon. The visitor, going by the name of Ardeth Bey meets socialite Helen Grosvenor, and believes her to be the reincarnation of his long lost love.

Join host Bill Mize as he takes you both behind the scenes and in front of the camera, minute by minute, to discuss the 1932 Universal Horror classic, "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward van Sloan.

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Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!

For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.

This episode we begin to learn of the story of the Book of Thoth, an ancient Egyptian myth that fuels the film.

Then we learn about Howard Carter, a ground breaking Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of King Tut and started the craze that informed the film, and finally, we take a look at minutes one through nine of the film itself, which begins with an archaeological discovery that endangers the lives of the men who found it.

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Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!

For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.

In this episode we continue to learn the myth of the Book of Thoth.

Then we delve into the life of the head of production of Universal Pictures at the time of the making of The Mummy and so many other classic horror films, Carl Laemmle, Junior.

Then, finally, we take a look a minutes nine through sixteen of the movie itself, where we find a young archaeologist, an ancient scroll displayed before him, walking the tightrope between temptation and ruin.

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