The Mummy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Music Review: It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.
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"Imhotep" - Begins as the Universal logo comes up at the beginning of the film, morphing into the sun over Thebes; the track underlies the entire Thebes sequence, ending upon Anck-su-namun's death.

"The Sarcophagus" - Begins just as the Book of the Dead takes effect and Anck-su-namun gasps in shock, ends as the camera pans up the giant Anubis statue (before the title hits the screen). The roaring FX at that point aren't included.

"Tauger Attack" - Picks up a few seconds after "The Sarcophagus", as the Anubis statue is shown aging 3000+ years as we move to 1928, and the battle from which only Beni and Rick came out alive. The track ends just as the cavalry begin clearing the wall behind which the riflemen were sheltering. (The music as Rick falls back on his pistols is a separate passage.) The Tuareg are referred to even in the outdated script on the Ultimate Edition DVD by that name, but somehow 'Tauger' wound up on the CD.

Various isolated passages of music, from breaking of the legion's line at Hamunaptra to the teams' departure from Giza, are not included.

"Giza Port" - From boarding the ship at Giza until the cut to Jonathan's poker game with the Americans; the game itself is backed by some live ragtime piano that isn't included.

"Night Boarders" begins as O'Connell spots the wet footprints on deck just after his reunion with Beni, and ends as the horses emerge from the river.

"The Caravan" - Begins as Evy walks up to O'Connell just as he makes his crack to Jonathan about swapping her for the camels, and ends as the two groups of competitors meet again outside Hamunaptra.

"Camel Race" - The race to Hamunaptra, ending as Evy and her companions enter the crypt beneath the Anubis statue ('What is that god-awful stench?')

"The Crypt" does NOT cover the isolated musical passages at the opening of the crypt, or the warden's first attempts at recovering some scarabs. Instead, it begins when Jonathan, err, 'finds' the sarcophagus while practicing golf shots.

"Mumia Attack" actually covers the Medjai attack on the camp on the first night at Hamunaptra (before Evy unlocks either the sarcophagus or the book). The original script name "Mumia" was changed to "Medjai" almost everywhere but here and the script on the Ultimate Edition DVD.

The "Discoveries" begin with the American team's discovery of the box holding the canopic jars. ('Well, let's make sure we don't bring anyone back from the dead, then, huh?')

As Jonathan calls it, "My Favorite Plague" (boils and sores) and "Crowd Control" cover the Mummy's control of the mob in Cairo; the latter ends with the cut to the 'Royal Air Corps' outpost. The music on Winston's record player isn't included, since it isn't part of the original score. The 'Sand Volcano' extract underlying the first leg of the flight across the desert isn't included as a separate track.

The music accompanying the sandwall scene, and our final sight of Winston's plane, doesn't seem to have been included.

"Rebirth" begins as Jonathan, following in the Warden's footsteps, gets interested in the scarabs adorning the walls, covering Anck-su-amun's rebirth, through O'Connell's first round with the priest-mummies. It's followed immediately by "The Mummy" as Imhotep's reinforcements - the soldier-mummies - march in, picking up where the priests left off. (It ends with Imhotep's final scene.)

"The Sand Volcano" covers the fall of Humanaptra and the end title theme, but rather than tracking the entire escape sequence, it begins *after* Beni's final scene, once our heroes have reached the surface (so a few passages are omitted).

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