The Mummy (1932)

Edward Van Sloan: Doctor Muller

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• Doctor Muller : Look! The sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off the coffin. So Imhotep was sentenced to death not only in this world, but in the next.

  Ralph Norton : Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple.

  Doctor Muller : Possibly.

• Doctor Muller : Put it back. Bury it where you found it. You have read the curse. You dare defy it?

  Sir Joseph Whemple : In the interest of science, even if I believed in the curse, I'd go on with my work for the museum. Come back with me, and we'll examine this great find together.

  Doctor Muller : I cannot condone an act of sacrilege with my presence.

• Doctor Muller : Burn the scroll, man. Burn it! It was through you this horror came into existence.

• Frank Whemple : You seem to think this thing has all the devils of hell in it. Why not burn it and be done with it?

  Doctor Muller : An excellent sugggestion...

• Doctor Muller : If I could get my hands on you, I'd break your dried flesh to pieces!

• Doctor Muller : Helen knows. She knows the moment she stops struggling he will give her back her strength to come to him.

  Helen Grosvenor : But I don't want to lose my own mind, and be someone else, someone I hate!

• Doctor Muller : Frank, I need your help. I saw your attraction to my patient last night, and hers to you.

  Frank Whemple : Hers to me? You really think so?

  Doctor Muller : And I welcomed it.

  Frank Whemple : But do you think I have a chance? 'Cause I think she's the most wond- oh, but this is terrible at a time like this.