We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals.
3 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:02:32.040 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Trying to teach me a lesson in patience, Sir Joseph?
- Method is everything in archaeology, my boy. We always deal with our finds of the day in order.
- We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals.
- Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds.
- Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.
- That's all very true, but after all, we're human. And a find like this... Well, how can you wait?
- The viscera were not removed. The usual scar made by the embalmer's knife is not there.
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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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