The Mummy (1932)

David Manners: Frank Whemple

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• Frank Whemple : Stuck in the desert for two months, and was it hot! That tomb...

  Helen Grosvenor : What tomb?

  Frank Whemple : Surely you read about the princess?

  Helen Grosvenor : So you did that.

  Frank Whemple : Yes. The fourteen steps down and the unbroken seals were thrilling. But when we came to handle all her clothes and her jewels and her toilet things - you know they buried everything with them that they used in life? - well, when we came to unwrap the girl herself...

  Helen Grosvenor : How could you do that?

  Frank Whemple : Had to! Science, you know. Well after we'd worked among her things, I felt as if I'd known her. But when we got the wrappings off, and I saw her face... you'll think me silly, but I sort of fell in love with her.

  Helen Grosvenor : Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?

• Frank Whemple : Oh, I know it seems absurd when we've known each other such a short time. But I'm serious.

  Helen Grosvenor : Don't you think I've had enough excitement for one evening, without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me?

• Frank Whemple : He's a strange one.

  Sir Joseph Whemple : But you might at least have thanked the man. He was responsible for finding the Princess.

  Frank Whemple : Yes, I rather wish he hadn't been. I think it's a dirty trick, this Cairo Museum keeping everything we've found.

  Sir Joseph Whemple : That was the contract. The British Museum works for the cause of science, not for loot.

• 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...

• Helen Grosvenor : Where was I when I fainted, Mr. Whemple?

  Frank Whemple : Oh, outside the museum.

  Helen Grosvenor : What was I doing there?

  Frank Whemple : [chuckling]  Well, I wouldn't know that, would I?

  Frank Whemple : No, I wouldn't supposed you would. I wish I did...

• [last lines] 

  Frank Whemple : Helen! Helen! Come back! It's Frank! Come back!

• Frank Whemple : You know, I'd've liked Egypt better if I'd met you there. No such luck!

• Frank Whemple : Queer story, that young Oxford chap he had with him going mad. You know what I think it was?

  Professor Pearson : No, what?

  Frank Whemple : I think he went crazy. Bored beyond human endurance, messing round in this sand and these rocks.

  Professor Pearson : He was laughing when your father found him. He died laughing, in a strait-jacket.

• 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.