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The contorted muscles show that he struggled in the bandages. Buried alive.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:03:28.160 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- This is your first trip. I've been out here 10 years, and I'm more curious about that mummy than you are, and even more about that box.

- The viscera were not removed. The usual scar made by the embalmer's knife is not there.

- I guessed as much, Muller.

- I had a good look at him when I photographed him. Never saw a mummy like that.

- Neither, I imagine, has anyone else.

- Looks as though he died in some sensationally unpleasant manner.

- The contorted muscles show that he struggled in the bandages. Buried alive.

- Imhotep, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun at Karnak.

- Poor old fellow. Now, what could you have done to make them treat you like that?

- An execution for treason, I suppose.

- Sacrilege, more likely.

- Look. The sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off of the coffin.

- So Imhotep was sentenced to death not only in this world, but in the next.

- Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple.

- Possibly.

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Actors: Boris Karloff (Imhotep), Zita Johann (Helen Grosvenor), David Manners (Frank Whemple), Arthur Byron (Sir Joseph Whemple)

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