![]() Showing the pair where to dig to find the tomb, the sarcophagus of his beloved is taken to the museum of Cairo. Along the way they encounter the mysterious Ardath Bey, actually Imhotep in a slightly more human form, Scroll of Thoth under his arm, seeking out his reincarnated lover from the past, Ankhesenamun. ![]() Some ten years later, Whemple’s son, Frank (David Manners, John Harker in Tod Browning’s Dracula ), Professor Pearson (Leonard Mudie) and Doctor Muller (the redoubtable Edward Van Sloan, seen in Dracula, Frankensteinand many others of the era) return to Africa to seek out the tomb. Norton goes instantly loony, gibbering the famous lines, “He just went out for a little walk – you should have seen his face!” whilst Whemple vows never to return to Egypt. Unable to resist the temptation to open it, despite the curse written on the outside, Norton discovers a scroll within and awakens Imhotep from his dusty slumber by reading the hieroglyphics written on it. An archaeological dig in Cairo by starchy Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron, an American with a very convincing English accent) and his wet behind the ears assistant, Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher), leads to the discovery of a mummy, that of the 2700 year-old Imhotep (Karloff, to bill him under just the one name, as the credits and posters do) and a lost long box found with him.
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