The Mummy (1932): I love the old Universal logo.

The Mummy (1932): Boris Karloff's credit in the opening sequence of The Mummy.

The Mummy (1932): Miniature pyramid in The Mummy's opening credits.

The Mummy (1932): The source of all the trouble: The Scroll of Thoth, containing the incantation which raises the dead.

The Mummy (1932): Boris Karloff as the mummy. Notice how how dessicated and ancient he looks and yet how little bandaging was in evidence.

The Mummy (1932): British archaeologists Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron) and Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) read the curse that awaits any who disturb the grave of Im-ho-tep.

The Mummy (1932): Archaeologist Ralph Norton unwisely begins to translate the Scroll of Thoth. Behind him, we see the glimmer of eye-shine in Im-ho-tep.

The Mummy (1932): The reanimated Im-ho-tep reaches for the scroll as Norton laughs hysterically in the background.

The Mummy (1932): Twelve years later, Im-ho-tep (Boris Karloff) posing as a modern, living Egyptian, Ardath Bey.

The Mummy (1932): Ardath Bey offers to lead Sir Joseph's son Frank, also an archaeologist, to a remarkable find.

The Mummy (1932): The sarcophagus of Anck-es-en-Amon, daughter of a pharaoh and Im-ho-tep's great love, whom he means to resurrect.

The Mummy (1932): Zita Johann as Helen Grosvenor, the modern reincarnate of Princess Anck-es-en-Amon.

The Mummy (1932): Sir Joseph's son, Frank (David Manners), falling in love with Helen (Zita Johann), whom he and his father have rescued after he collapse and blackout outside the Cairo museum.

The Mummy (1932): Zita Johann as the beautiful and vulnerable Helen Grosvenor. (I admit that she strikes this modern, middle-class woman as something of a layabout, however!)

The Mummy (1932): Helen confronts the eerie, yet strangely compelling, Ardath Bey.