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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Mummy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
A mummy is a corpse whose skin and flesh have been preserved by deliberate or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness.
Films representing such a belief include the 1932 film The Mummy starring Boris Karloff, as well as two remakes, one released in 1959 and another in 1999.
Mummies have been used in medicine, to calibrate CAT scan machines at levels of radiation that would be too dangerous for use on living people.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Mummy   (2149 words)

  
 The Mummy (1999 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mummy is a film written and directed in 1999 by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, with Arnold Vosloo as the reanimated mummy of the title.
It is a loose remake of The Mummy (1932), which starred Boris Karloff as the mummy.
In the original release of The Mummy in England, around 5-10 seconds of footage was cut during the hanging scene in the Egyptian prison, including a single line from the Prison Warden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_movie)   (1363 words)

  
 The Curse of the Mummy's Text
Instead, he insists, the creature "is hopelessly bogged down in a complicated story that involves capturing his reincarnated girl-princess and returning with her to the world of the dead"; he has "never developed a coherent text, let alone a family" whereby the incest formula might be operative (260).
Mummies may tap into some effective taboos and may indirectly represent psychologically disturbing notions: the persistence of their lumbering is bothersome; they are "undead" -- but many monsters are more effective on these scores.
Ambrose Pratt's The Living Mummy (1910), although including an ambulatory mummy obedient to an evil mastermind and demonstrating a predilection for strangling his victims, is too rife with embarrassing melodramatic sappiness, along with racism and sexism, to be an effective text.
www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/mummy.article.html   (1734 words)

  
 Films by the year 1940   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Propaganda film at the 10-th anniversary of the October revolution
Boxing film that turned out to be a silent hit
Film version of the story by L. Frank Baum
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 The Original Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology Part VII
Phibes died during an operation in 1921 (see the year on her coffin in the mausoleum), and Dr. Vesalius reminded Nurse Allen that the operation was four years ago.
Groucho Marx, of course, along with his brothers, immortalized in film the antics of a group of rather notorious con men and tricksters.
It should be noted that the film version deviated significantly from this original story, both in it's omission of Doc Savage and in it's depiction of the lead female protagonist, Betty Page.
www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Chron7.htm   (10526 words)

  
 Silent Era : DVD : Silent Era Films on DVD
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (1913-1932)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 2: The Magic of Méliès (1904-1908)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Nine (1926-1928)
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 Boris Karloff
A distinguished character actor with a superb speaking voice, Karloff was famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror films, notably
The Mummy (1932) - Starring Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
La momia: Nueva versión de un clásico de terror.(TT: The mummy: new version of a classical of horror.)
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