The Mummy (1932 movie)
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The Mummy is a 1932 horror film starring Boris Karloff as an Ancient Egyptian prince, Im-Ho-Tep, whose mummy is inadvertently revived by a member of an archaeological expedition and who, using the name Ardath Bey, prowls Cairo seeking the reincarnation of the soul of his ancient lover, Princess Ankh-es-en-amon.
The movie was remade, loosely, in 1999, starring Brendan Fraser and John Hannah Im-Ho-Tep and Ardath Bey became two separate characters for the occasion. A 1959 British film entitled "The Mummy", starring Christopher Lee in the title role, was actually a remake of two later Universal horror films about a different living mummy, Kharis, entitled The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb.