By William Mize
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
As we end the myth of Setna and the Book of Thoth, the prince has learned the error of his ways, and the previous owner and his family can finally rest in peace.
In biography section, we finally come to the star of the movie, Boris Karloff.
Quiet, polite, professional, unassuming, a sudden star due to his portrayal of the monster of Frankenstein.
It is Karloff’s sublime menace that runs through the film from start to finish and made The Mummy the classic that it is today.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 64 through the end of the movie. It is the end game - Helen has returned to Ardeth Bey and he must kill her to possess her. The love of Frank Whemple against the evil of the undead priest.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" WebsiteBill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
In this episode, Setna, humbled by the power and corrupting influence of The Scroll of Thoth, begins to make amends for his greed.
In the biography section, we look at the fascinating life of Zita Johann, the woman starring in the dual role of socialite Helen Grosvenor and the reincarnated Princess Ank-sen-amon.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 57 through 63 of the movie. Helen is home, back from her meeting with Ardeth Bey, and begins to take a turn for the worse due to the constant psychic battle to return to him.
For good.
Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
In this episode, Setna, who now possesses the Book of Thoth has met someone. A beautiful someone.
For this episode, we begin by looking at the life of the actor who plays the love interest for Helen Grosvenor, Frank Whemple.
His name was David Manners, and he was a beloved leading man in the 1930’s, with striking eyes and a strong, gentle face, but as we shall see, has depth and layers behind that handsome face.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 48 through 56 of the movie. Helen, disobeying Mueller's warning has fallen under the spell of Ardeth Bey and has joined him in his hidden resting place.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron!Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
In this episode, Setna and Nefrekeptah prepare to play a game of checkers with immense consequences.
Then, we go behind the camera and behind the scenes one last time and talk about the man who created The Mummy - literally - the man who gave us the signature looks of the Frankenstein monster, the Wolf Man, and our boy Imhotep, Jack Pierce.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 41 through 48 of the movie, when Ardeth Bey makes moves on a chess board of his own, and begins his seduction of Helen Grosvenor, whom he believes to be the reincarnation of Princess Ank-Sen-Amon.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Almost there. Please add below text in one of your recent shownotes, wait some minutes and do the same command to check.
CLAIM=1e4ccbed7994264ec64919e70e7b5e3e6b0e49bf=CLAIM
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
In this episode, we learn the power of the Book of Thoth.
Next, we take a look at the life of Freund, the German born director of “The Mummy”.
A ground breaking cinematographer before getting into the director’s chair for the first time officially with this film, he brought his decades of experience with German Expressionist cinema to Hollywood and films never looked the same.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 32 through 40 of the movie, Sir Joseph Whemple, his son Frank, and the specialist in Egyptian Occult matters, Doctor Mueller, begin to put the pieces of the Princess Ank-Sen-Amon puzzle together.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" WebsiteBill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
We are nearing the halfway point of this season, and in this, episode four, we delve deeper into the myth of the Book of Thoth. In our biography section, we take a look at the second scribe mentioned in the last episode, John Balderston, who took the treatment for Calgliostro, and turned it into the story of Imhotep, The Mummy. Then, finally, we take a look a minutes twenty four through thirty two of the movie.
Ardeth Bey, in the closed museum, whispers a chant from the Book of Thoth, and a beautiful young socialite, Helen Grosvenor, hears the psychic call.
She calls a cab and is heading toward the museum.
Toward Ardeth Bey.
Toward her fate.
But first, we travel to ancient Egypt…
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" WebsiteBill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
We have reached our third episode and we continue to learn the myth of the Book of Thoth.
In our biography section, we remain behind the camera, and learn about the life of the woman who wrote the initial treatment for the story that would eventually become The Mummy, a true individual for her day, Nina Wilcox Putnam.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes 17 through 23of the movie.
The burial place of her royal highness, Princess Ank-Sen-Amon has been discovered, unearthed and brought to Cairo.
We also meet another woman, an exotic socialite in a noisy Cairo nightclub, who yearns for a simpler time, a different Egypt.
One perhaps millennia in the past.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
In this episode we continue to learn the myth of the Book of Thoth.
Then we delve into the life of the head of production of Universal Pictures at the time of the making of The Mummy and so many other classic horror films, Carl Laemmle, Junior.
Then, finally, we take a look a minutes nine through sixteen of the movie itself, where we find a young archaeologist, an ancient scroll displayed before him, walking the tightrope between temptation and ruin.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" WebsiteBill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
Welcome to Monsters by the Minute!
For this, the first season of the show, we are taking a look at Universal Pictures 1932 classic, The Mummy, directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.
This episode we begin to learn of the story of the Book of Thoth, an ancient Egyptian myth that fuels the film.
Then we learn about Howard Carter, a ground breaking Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of King Tut and started the craze that informed the film, and finally, we take a look at minutes one through nine of the film itself, which begins with an archaeological discovery that endangers the lives of the men who found it.
MBTM Season One: "The Mummy" Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook GroupBecome a Patron!
Buy The Blu-Ray and Support the Show!
Buy The Shirt and Support the Show!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
An ancient Egyptian high priest, Imhotep, is raised from the dead during a 1921 British Archaeology expedition.
Ten years later, a mysterious visitor to the same site leads the scientists to the burial site of the princess Ank-Sen-Amon. The visitor, going by the name of Ardeth Bey meets socialite Helen Grosvenor, and believes her to be the reincarnation of his long lost love.
Join host Bill Mize as he takes you both behind the scenes and in front of the camera, minute by minute, to discuss the 1932 Universal Horror classic, "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward van Sloan.
The Bill Makes Podcasts Website
Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group
Become a Patron for as little as $1 a month!
Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.