# The Ghoul (1933 film)

The Ghoul is a 1933 film about an Egyptologist who returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
    Directed by T. Hayes Hunter. Written by Rupert Downing.

## Broughton

* We all know that dead men don't come back.
* Almost his last words were a threat to return from the dead. In my opinion, he was mad!

## Other

* Kaney: That's the last time I'll ever try to make coffee in a strange house!

## Dialogue

    Broughton: I advise you to be very careful, Laing.
    Laing: I've a careful nature.
    Broughton: You may be putting yourself perilously near dishonesty.
    Laing: I've seen men nearer.
    Nigel Hartley: I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.
    Broughton: Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?
    Aga Ben Dragore: [as Kaney is making tea for the household] Six cups? That's just... just four too many. Eh?
    Kaney: Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?
    Aga Ben Dragore: [Imperiously folding his arms] I am one!
    Kaney: [Shocked] What? [drops knife; he hands it back] Thank you. Then how should I address you? Oh - I'm cutting sandwiches for a sheikh! I don't feel quite well.
    Aga Ben Dragore: Oh, don't be alarmed. We're not as uncivilised as people think.
    Kaney: Oh, don't say that! Do you ride a white stallion?
    Aga Ben Dragore: Sometimes.
    Kaney: Down the path of the moon! The noble animal plunging and frothing at the nostrils till it founders at your feet, faithful unto death!
    Aga Ben Dragore: Now I will show you how we make coffee in the desert... by the native stars.
    Kaney: You don't make it yourself, do you?
    Aga Ben Dragore: No, of course not! A Circassian slave, lovely and thin, cooks it for us, kneeling. And if it is not to our liking...
    Kaney: I know! She is stripped to the waist and lashed for miles across the Sahara.
    Aga Ben Dragore: Where she is finally eaten by locusts. And rightly. Now; take this canister and do exactly as I tell you.
    Kaney: And if I fail?
    Aga Ben Dragore: The Yorkshire moors are just behind us!
    Nigel Hartley: I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?
    Laing: He'll never see the morning.
    Nigel Hartley: He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?
    Laing: Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.
    Nigel Hartley: I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.
    Laing: He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.
    Nigel Hartley: Still, sometimes at the end...
    Laing: Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!
    Prof. Morlant: You're afraid of me!
    Laing: [Shakes his head] I'm afraid FOR you.
    Prof. Morlant: [Referring to the jewel] If this should leave me, you'll have reason to fear... for when the full moon strikes the door of my tomb, I will come back. You hear? I will come back to kill!
    Nigel Hartley: Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.
    Kaney: You think he's run away? Absurd! I'd like to see you riding your bicycle with a Circassian slave, lovely as sin, across the handlebars!

## Taglines

* An Ancient Curse Is About To Be Unleashed.
* From the Depths of the Earth, He Will Rise.
* Weird Happenings in a House of Mystery

## Cast

* Boris Karloff — Prof. Henry Morlant
* Cedric Hardwicke — Mr. Broughton
* Ernest Thesiger — Laing
* Dorothy Hyson — Miss Betty Harlon
* Anthony Bushell — Ralph Morlant
* Kathleen Harrison — Miss Kaney
* Harold Huth — Sheikh Aga Ben Dragore
* D. A. Clarke-Smith — Mahmoud
* Ralph Richardson — Nigel Hartley
* Jack Raine — Davis
* George Relph — Doctor

## External links

* The Ghoul (1933 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Ghoul at Allmovie