You know what I think it was? I think he went crazy, bored beyond human endurance, messing around in this sand and these rocks.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:13:19.560 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- A man needs more than hard work for this game. He needs flair. He needs luck, like your father.
- In the days when he used to come out here, there wasn't so much competition.
- When he did, he found things. And once, 10 years ago, he found too much.
- Queer story, that young Oxford chap he had with him going mad.
- You break your season's camp, Professor Pearson?
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