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Released
1932 · FILM

The Mummy

Ancient priest Imhotep is reanimated by a careless spell and must track down the modern incarnation of his dead lover before a skeptical archaeological team can stop his deadly quest.

“It comes to life!”

Directed by
Karl Freund
Written by
Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer
Color
Black & White
Runtime
73 min
FantasyHorror
Streaming on
  • Hulu

Synopsis

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is brought back to life when a British archaeological expedition discovers his mummy and one of the researchers inadvertently recites an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and embarks on a search for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Milton CarruthShot by Charles J Stumar

Box Office

1932 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1K

Budget$196K
Worldwide gross$1K
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

20241,236 theaters
$2.7M($2.9M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Die Mumiede
  • La momiaes
  • La Momiefr
  • La mummiait

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