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vivdunstan) wrote2022-06-10 11:30 pm
vivdunstan) wrote2022-06-10 11:30 pm
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Tonight’s movie watching
Our watch tonight, for the first time for both of us, was the 1932 version of The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff.
I liked a lot about it, especially Boris Karloff who was mesmerising. But it was very much a film of three parts. The first third was superb, and gripped me from the opening seconds. The middle third was poor, especially the Ancient Egypt segment, that I found laughable. And the final third was just ok.
Kudos though to the lead female actress, Zita Johann, who did have some dodgy bits, but was generally very naturalistic and assured in her performance.
And thank goodness for a short film, not much over an hour in length. Which we both appreciated hugely tonight.
We have lots of the early Universal Studios films recorded to watch soon. I see they shared a lot of cast between them.
Oh and it’s easy to see how influential the 1932 Mummy film was on the 1999 one.
I liked a lot about it, especially Boris Karloff who was mesmerising. But it was very much a film of three parts. The first third was superb, and gripped me from the opening seconds. The middle third was poor, especially the Ancient Egypt segment, that I found laughable. And the final third was just ok.
Kudos though to the lead female actress, Zita Johann, who did have some dodgy bits, but was generally very naturalistic and assured in her performance.
And thank goodness for a short film, not much over an hour in length. Which we both appreciated hugely tonight.
We have lots of the early Universal Studios films recorded to watch soon. I see they shared a lot of cast between them.
Oh and it’s easy to see how influential the 1932 Mummy film was on the 1999 one.