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“The Mummy.” MCA. $39.95. You can’t keep a good man down, whether he’s Dracula--or Boris Karloff as “The Mummy,” an ancient Egyptian accidentally raised from the dead to wreak havoc upon a pair of sappy young lovers (Zita Johann, David Manners). This 1932 foray into horror at its most romantic is pure camp, but it has the visual splendor that its director, the great, innovative cinematographer Karl Freund, brought to numerous German silent classics. Indeed, “The Mummy” might not seem nearly so silly if it were silent.
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