DIVE-In Dinner & Movie Combo: feat. The Mummy (1932)
Thu, Oct 22
|The Fred
Guests will enjoy a movie & boxed dinner of their choice along with theater candy, unlimited popcorn & fountain drinks ($25). Click on the 'More Info' link below for ticket options.
Time & Location
Oct 22, 2020, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Fred, 605 Strand St, Frederiksted, VI 00840, USVI
About the Event
ABOUT THE MOVIE: The Mummy
Inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the Curse of the Pharaohs, producer Carl Laemmle Jr. commissioned story editor Richard Schayer to find a literary novel to form a basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as the novels Dracula and Frankenstein informed their 1931 films Dracula and Frankenstein.[4] Schayer found none although the plot bears a strong resemblance to a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "The Ring of Thoth".[5] Schayer and writer Nina Wilcox Putnam learned about Alessandro Cagliostro and wrote a nine-page treatment entitled Cagliostro.[4] The story, set in San Francisco, was about a 3,000-year-old magician who survives by injecting nitrates.
Pleased with the Cagliostro concept, Laemmle hired John L. Balderston to write the script.[4] Balderston had contributed to Dracula and Frankenstein, and had covered the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb for New York World when…