Charlie conjures up a means of salvation - for both her own innocent, teenage romantic dreams and for the health of her family - another more potent, enlivening male figure."Batman flew into the city in his Batwing to foil his plan by snagging the poison-spewing balloons and releasing them far away."At Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, the area was again being excavated - a search for the remains of the mummy of High Priest Imhotep.The film reflected the dire effects of the Great Depression on the common man in its story of a WWI veteran who faced unemployment, was unjustly convicted of a petty robbery, and then twice served and escaped from a southern chain gang as a hunted fugitive during he 1920s.[Note: Bryna was one of Hollywood""s first independent film companies - named after his mother and managed by his wife Anne.