Well, it seems to me that that box we dug up today, with the very peculiar gentleman, over there, is the only find we've made in the past two months that'll bring this expedition any medals from the British Museum.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:02:20.480 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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?
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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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